According to the NY Daily News, Joe Merlino has inked a plea deal..Scheduled for April 27..No other information about plea.

Any new updated on this?

10-17 months i believe? he agreed to plead guilty

Can they use the guilty as a predicate act I a future case?

i wonderd that. say down the road they indict merlino uncle ect in philly federal court there the philly family i dont think they could or would use a gambling charge out of the bronx. that was the east coast enterprise.

plea to gambling, guidelines are up to 24 months, judge will sentence him to whatever he feels is right...the unofficial plea the prosecutor and defense attorneys have agreed on is anywhere between 10 months to 20 months, depending on the source..judge can do whatever he wants, in most cases judge takes the deal the sides made into heavy consideration, but you never know, he could sentence the full 24 months, or even more if he wants to..but yes,the consense is the please is 10 to 20 months

Another W
For Merlino
24 months is like weekend for him.

He will still earn,
Nothing will be disrupted

The feds were.hoping to take him off the street for 15 years.

I seriously doubt he would admit guilt if they could use the plea against him in a RICO case. He probably has assurances

Would he be on supervised release when he gets out?

Ah the good old Life on Installment plan. Yes we know Skinny Joey should be in prison with LWoP. But this most recent case is A joke, if you win fair and square you deserve your freedom.

Bensonhurst, do not speculate or assume he will earn because you know who may be watching this thread too wondering how you have any insight into Joeys situation when he goes to jail.

He will have spent almost half of his adult life in prison. His lifestyle must be really worth it to him.

He has probably lived better than you in one weekend than you have your entire life. You sit on a mob forum cracking corny jokes that nobody has ever laughed at all day long.

Your lifestyle must really be worth it!

Blackjack earned himself another vacation for flaming. He'll have one more chance to be a decent guy on these boards when he returns.

Rooster, forget that guy Move on.

What is flaming?

It's when you take the "One Eyed Meat Bus" up the Hershey Highway, if that helps any.

Flaming is making rude and/or insulting messages designed to make the recipient answer in the same manner. In other words, it's a way somebody looks to start a fight on the internet. Since flaming inevitably disrupts the GBB we don't allow it here at all.

Mayo face on twitter saying there rounding up the bookies for a federal grand jury. Ricos coming. Think the board overlooked like 6months ago mayo was saying another member had flipped and was working with the feds. Think he was fed that but didnt really no if it was true. Then we find out that guy was recording every drug deal in south jersey.

Also think one of the south philly guys would have reached out to george of the record say a.p isnt a made guy hes not with us. Since noone did i think he was a made guy. They talk to george alot.

You are hearing right about the rounding up ! Pmac and they be.en making guys all along but this is one I did not expect.

There’s a grand Jury sitting in Philadelphia right now. Bookies paying street tax being called to testify. Mob Leadership going to be indicted

Wonder what kind of charges besides bookmaking the Grand Jury is hearing?

extortion, loansharking, fraud etc,

Wonder if they’re hearing testimony regarding the recent Philly LCN hits.....

reminds me of when in mid 90tys they sent all the bookies to a grand jury in boston. they charged them all with money laundering and tax evasion so they flipped and told on the guys they were paying rent to. whitey fleemi and a few lcn guys.

Sounds like maybe the Feds went along w/the plea deal more or less to keep Joey tied up until they can drop this hammer down on him.....guys like Borgesi who already did a ton of time must be heated.

If they're bringing in the bookies we're going to see some guys who skated under the radar get caught up....the Wags brothers, Lancelotti and his nephew, etc.

Feds let Joey plead to house arrest ,cause they can use the guilty plea as a Rico predicate. Means the feds just need one more proven rico predicate to convict him of racketeering. Also beleive they want him out on the street because guys are wearing wires.

Im not 100 percent sure they can use the plea, not saying they cant,.just not sure..if someone wearing wire on him then they got him and wouldnt have to keep him in street..someone above alluded to lance nephew getting wrapped in? I ask..for what exactly?