Scarfo Sr is dead.

Damn it.Has this been verified? I always wanted Licky Nicky to live to 103, get out of prison and start a war with the Merlino faction.

Damn it.Has this been verified? I always wanted Licky Nicky to live to 103, get out of prison and start a war with the Merlino faction.

I wonder if his son will feel more comfortable ratting now that his father is dead?

His brother wanted no part of that life and his other brother committed suicide because of that life.

I say he should rat if it means he gets out of prison alive.

Dö you think leonetti is Free now to dö whatever he wants?

I don't know..He seems to be the biggest coward of all the stool pigeons out there...20+ years later and he still wants his voice and face altered !!

Thats not cowardice, that's precaution. And Nicky Jr won't flip, I don't know why people get this idea that he'll flip because "he cant handle prison life", he's had multiple opportunities to flip and bit the bullet each time.

I said it before and I will say it again...I cannot believe how long mobsters live.

Christy Tic
Joey Lombardo
John Di Fronzo
Bobby Manna
John Franzese

I am sure there are plenty more.

I said it before and I will say it again...I cannot believe how long mobsters live.

Vic Amuso is 82. Poor guy will be broken hearted. His best friend is gone.

Carmine Persico is even older.

Venero Mangano is 95.

Here's a interesting article.
http://breakingac.com/little-nicky-scarfo-died-in-federal-prison/

Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo, infamous boss of the Philadelphia crime family, dies in prison at age 87 (Nothing new, just my take on Scarfo)

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/bl...hia-crime-famil

nice article but lol@ "the bounty is still active" (on leonetti). Where would one go about collecting that money if they killed phil?

Stephen Grammauta is one hundred years old, even older than Sony..

I bet Merlino doesn't attend shit. Although it would be nice to see he and Nicky Jr. present at the same time, and they shake hands, signifying a burying of the hatchet.

And lol @ being inspired by Nicky Scarfo.


Hopefully Leonetti signs off on the movie rights now.

LOL..DING DONG The witch is dead....I always wondered when it was gonna happen..now lets c what Phil has 2 write.

same here! RIP Little Nicky Scarfo! He inspired me in the 90's!

He's been free to do whatever he wants. Certain people, including myself, simply believe he was holding out on some things, like a sequel to his book, and a movie based on "Mafia Prince" until his uncle died.

U got that right..

I don't know..He seems to be the biggest coward of all the stool pigeons out there...20+ years later and he still wants his voice and face altered !!

Vic Amuso is 82. Poor guy will be broken hearted. His best friend is gone.

Carmine Persico is even older.

Venero Mangano is 95.

Here's a interesting article.
http://breakingac.com/little-nicky-scarfo-died-in-federal-prison/

"Back to his wife??" ..she "Domineca" is still alive??Serp....u out there?..know anything??????/

I bet Merlino doesn't attend shit. Although it would be nice to see he and Nicky Jr. present at the same time, and they shake hands, signifying a burying of the hatchet.

And lol @ being inspired by Nicky Scarfo.


Hopefully Leonetti signs off on the movie rights now.

Isn't Jr in prison?

Hoodlum: Yes" she is alive and well lives on the Ventnor , Margate border back by they intercostal water way.

It's not going to be good the Scarfo side don't get along with her side of the family.

Chris is from a different mother Jr. Is gone Mark is dead , although there is still family in large numbers on both sides .

They are going to try to keep the service private like they did Mark but I don't think it's going to be that easy.

The church they belong to has recently closed and it's possible they may do it in Philly but at this point who knows cos there church may open one day just for his service.

Chris is the only one on the street and he is part time here and part time Boca .

Chris and his kid are doing well down there in a business together and Chris has the Insurance but also has branched out and is doing well.

Ironic his new lady is a ex-wife of a local police officer from this area .

How many hits did Little Nicky do before becoming boss? And was he legally (clinically) diagnosed as a psychopath?

Here's a interesting article.
http://breakingac.com/little-nicky-scarfo-died-in-federal-prison/

While Scarfo was a frail man in a wheelchair physically, he reamined mentally sharp, Bahuriak said.
“He had the mind of a much younger man,” he said. “Very focused. Very intense.”
The last time Bahuriak came to visit him in North Carolina, it was about a week after the presidential election.
“Can you believe this crook Trump is president?” the convicted mobster asked. “He’s a con artist. Can you believe it? How dumb are people? This crook!”


Even Scarfo hates Trump.

I bet merlino attends his funeral out of respect

One hit that he doesn't get credited/blamed for is Long John Martorano. I think most folks assume Ligambi ordered that done, because Martorano was making noise about trying to take over, but if you read Bobby Simone's "The Last Mouthpiece," there's a snippet where Simone is on trial himself and Crazy Phil Leonetti is testifying against him. Leonetti relates that Simone was worried Martorano was going to kill him and his son (because the son, Cowboy George, got a life sentence after Simone encouraged him to plead guilty), and Scarfo told Simone, "don't worry, the second he gets out of jail, Patty Specs has the contract to kill him."

I think posters here and George Anastasia also have argued that Johnny and Stevie Gongs did that hit, along with Anthony Nicodemo, but maybe the initial contract was still left over from Scarfo days?

wow, its like he didnt see himself as a crook and con artist lmao

he was nuts

Takes one to know one, he was just surprised the people voted in a crook is what he's saying

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

Phil Leonetti said it was Scarfo’s reaction to his youngest son’s suicide try that made him consider turning informant, which he did after they were convicted at trial.
Told of Mark Scarfo’s hospitalization at a point during trial, the father showed no emotion, Leonetti said.
“I’ve got tears in my eyes, and my uncle — this no-good evil (expletive) — has absolutely no reaction, no emotion, nothing,” he wrote in his book

[quote]Phil Leonetti said it was Scarfo’s reaction to his youngest son’s suicide try that made him consider turning informant, which he did after they were convicted at trial.
Told of Mark Scarfo’s hospitalization at a point during trial, the father showed no emotion, Leonetti said.
“I’ve got tears in my eyes, and my uncle — this no-good evil (expletive) — has absolutely no reaction, no emotion, nothing,” he wrote in his book


Anyone else think Leonetti might be making this shit up to make Scarfo sound even worse than he is, and because it ties in to the self-serving narrative of his book and serves to justify his reasons for ratting and stealing Scarfo's money?

I get it. It might be true.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here.

I just wouldn't be so quick to automatically accept anything Crazy Phil says as gospel.

The elder Mr. Scarfo idolized Al Capone, a fellow transplanted Brooklynite, but hardly resembled him. Where Capone had wit and panache, Mr. Scarfo had neither. Capone supposedly said, “You can go a long way with a smile; you can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” Mr. Scarfo preferred just the gun.

“There was no sense of charisma; not even a hint of the old Mafia mystique,” Mr. Anastasia wrote. “Scarfo was a bully with a gun.”

[quote=Moe_Tilden] Scarfo was a pretty sick fuck so I actually think it is true. I'm not saying Leonetti was always 100% truthful but it seems like Scafo looked down on anybody who was legit or he viewed as weak. Its common knowledge he didn't get along with his son Chris because Chri would never be a criminal. Also his sister Nancy(Phil's mother) didn't have a good relationship with him a refered to him as "Hitler"

Serp

Are you attending the services?

I think it's possible he was a criminal though. At least for a short time. According to Serp, Chris was somewhat involved in his fathers activity along with Nicky Jr. for quite some time. He and his father had a falling out, and Chris got out early, early enough to never be hurt by his association with his father and brother. I think there could be some truth to that.

Was his obit published in any paper? I would take a guess his wake n funeral would probaly be Friday sat.

According to George Fresolone, Jr was always a thinker when it came to White-Collar crimes. He says when computers first became popular and of use during the late 80s & early-mid 90's, that Jr was the first one to be on that wave and the only one around, at least around Fresolones crew in North Jersey, who had the brains to think things through and see the future and how critical computers would be and how they could be money makers.

Most definitely

Phil was handed everything he had by his uncle and his status came from his uncle .

Phil was not a fighter he was mafia tough ! But he learned how to work it at a very young age , he was not belligerent or nasty to others that were not in the life he was very smooth.

But he was with his uncle every dam day and night and because of his personality he just took it .

He could not do anything outside of the family without there being verbal diarrhea coming from his uncle .

He would be out and have to be by a pay phone to call and check in with whom ever but it was ultimately checking in what is uncle every day every night his whole life unless his uncle was in jail .

I seen when it turned just before salvi but after Salvi it was all over his face .

Pretty sure he was really done with his uncle by then , but no enough to do anything.
You can bet your ass if they did not go down he would be running that family right now .

It's the nature of the beast that life .

Chris was not involved in rackets or murders but he was involved in the everyday stuff that goes along with it. He was doing this long before Jr. started in the life.

As far as Chris hating his father (far far from true)

As far as Chris denouncing and cutting his father off (not true) Chris knew he could never get into the business he wanted to with that name !!! (That's it !!!)

He was learning the business from a associate of his fathers and Phil became close with that associate .

To this day when Chris gets out and has a couple he gets loud and starts to bring up the old days and he does this in front of his new friends and he does not hold back.

So much of what you hear is just talk .... Chris loved his father but "he"was exactly like him so they banged heads constantly .

That's all !!!

All true Junior was never a street guy though , and far as that goes neither was Phil, but he was very willing to do work and be involved with street guys and he did hang out with street guys .

He got his sister a well paying no show job in the union in ac. She was under indictment before scarfo was taking off the street always think that played a big role n phils decision to flip cause she got off that case.

I really want to know if he ever came to peace with his mortality and opened up about asking forgiveness for all his sins?
I remember that vicious letter he wrote to his mother in the late 90's, early 2000's.
The one in Phil's book.


Even Spilotro asked to say a prayer when he came to terms that he would die that day.

Ted Bundy for the most part killed exclusively women over 18.

Great guy.

Probaly scarfo own wish not to have a public wake. He must have been a broken man after his son got that 30yrs just cause hes did 30 yrs in prison and to know how that feels. Even carmine persico who doing life wit still a shot at appeal his son Allie is never getting out that fucked. But he still got other children and shit ton of blood family still doing colombo biznes in nyc.

On a warm spring day long ago, I was sent to Philadelphia on assignment.

My subject was crooner Al Martino — better known today as the man who played Johnny Fontane in the iconic Godfather saga.

Martino picked me up from the 30th Street train station in his Cadillac and told me his own sordid, Mafia-tinged tale.

It unfurled over hours of drinking at mobbed-up South Philly watering holes.

At one, I asked the bartender about the city’s hyper-violent former Mafia kingpin, Nicodermo “Little Nicky” Scarfo.

The beefy barkeep, chatty and friendly to that point, put his finger to lips, then to the side of his head indicating the diminutive Mob dictator was a whacko.

Scarfo — who died in prison Jan. 13 at 87 — still instilled fear in Philadelphia more than a decade after being jailed for murder, racketeering and other crimes too numerous to mention.

At his sentencing, federal prosecutors were scathing about the well-dressed killer.

“(Scarfo) is a remorseless and profoundly evil man,” a prosecutor told the judge. “His life has been committed to the Mafia and all the negative values it represents: Greed, viciousness, treachery, deceit, and contempt for the law.”

The Brooklyn-born gangster said when he was a kid that he was going to “lick the world.”

His model was the charismatic, often witty Al Capone, but the two men couldn’t have been more different.

“There was no sense of charisma; not even a hint of the old Mafia mystique,” Philadelphia Inquirer crime reporter George Anastasia wrote. “Scarfo was a bully with a gun.”

Scarfo’s maternal uncles introduced him to the Mafia life.

Hot-tempered and unpredictable, Scarfo soon fell afoul of Philly’s genial Mob chief, Angelo “The Gentle Don” Bruno, an old-school gangster. Benevolent, business-like and discrete, Bruno was more Don Corleone than Don Corleone.

Bruno’s consigliere wanted the pint-sized palooka Scarfo whacked. Instead, Bruno banished him to the dying resort town of Atlantic City, N.J. in 1964.

Scarfo was so out on the fringe of Mob action, he worked as a bartender and maintenance man to make ends meet.

Then, a miracle happened. Gambling was declared legal in Atlantic City in 1976 and suddenly Scarfo was the Mob’s man with a plan, skimming millions off unions, construction, gambling and other forms of vice.

At the same time, the long peace in Philadelphia was shattered when Angelo Bruno was murdered on March 21, 1980. Scarfo’s hands were clean in the hit, but after years in the minors, he was called up to the big leagues.

Bruno’s replacement was Philip “Chicken Man” Testa, who’d been a mentor to the fast-rising gangster and appointed his protege consigliere.

Testa’s reign would be brief, ’cause as Bruce Springsteen sang in his 1982 hit “Atlantic City,” “they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night.”

What followed was a gangland settling of accounts nearing Biblical proportions in the City of Brotherly Love.

In the two years after Testa was obliterated by a nail-packed bomb, Scarfo drenched the streets of Philly with buckets of blood. Ten top mobsters were slaughtered.

Many more minions were given one-way tickets to the morgue. Death toll: 25.

By 1984, the lowly bookie was king of Philly, wearing his hair slicked back and bespoke suits like a poor man’s Gordon Gekko.

As Scarfo and the Philly Mob raked buckets of dough out of Atlantic City, he ruled the city and South Jersey with mercurial brutality.

Scarfo had created an unbearable climate of paranoia — crushing even lifelong criminals.

Two mobsters feared they were marked for death and, in 1987, turned canary.

Scarfo was arrested getting off a plane in Atlantic City, returning from his South Florida mansion he called Casablanca South. That was January 1987 — he would never spend another day as a free man, narrowly escaping a trip to the electric chair.

One of the finks, Nicholas Caramandi, later told the Philadelphia Daily News why he ratted.

“He could turn on you in a second,” the former hitman said. “And once he did, forget about it. It was all over for you. You might as well go to China.”

Don Corleone would not have approved.

Serp - The longshoreman he killed in that diner wasn't in the life, nor the judge, Edwin Helfant. And he appeared to enjoy killing Vincent Falcone a little too much for something that was just business.

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/01/21/life-and-crimes-of-little-nicky

New article in the Sun.

Okay, preventing justice from taking its course is fine because the judge was in on it - are the people they sell drugs to in the life?

Didn't a young Scarfo along with his mentor, Skinny Razor Di Tullio, used to castrate victims and stick their balls in their own after they killed them?

I read that recently.

When you're doing stuff like that, and sticking ice picks in people, it kind of contradicts the notion of murder as simply a necessary evil of doing business in the mob.

Whatever about Angelo Bruno and the myth of him being some Santa Clause figure compared to other bosses, which may be true to a certain point, but Scarfo was clearly irredeemable and would have murdered people whether he was in the mafia or not.

T. Barry Goas, a deputy attorney general, said Mr. Virgilio, who had been convicted of murder, paid Judge Helfant $12,500 to bribe the judge scheduled to sentence him. The bribe was never paid and Mr. Virgilio was sentenced to 12 1/2 to 15 years in prison.

''There was no quid pro quo,'' Mr. Goas said. Judge Helfant, who was on trial on charges of obstructing justice in an unrelated matter, was shot to death in a restaurant in Somers Point.

Mr. Edwards withheld the name of the sentencing judge because, he said, there was no evidence he was aware of the bribe transaction.

Read it where? Because Leonetti doesn't say this in his book. Caramandi doesn't say it in his book, either.

Helfant was a crooked lawyer and municipal court judge, who had gangsters on his payroll, including one Pepe Leva.. He made a promise to Scarfo to get Virgiglio a lightened sentence; From prison Scarfo made sure Helfant was paid $6, 000 for his part, Helfant did none of what he'd promised to Scarfo and stole the $6, 000. He most certainly was "in the life".


People get this faulty idea that being "in the life" means you're a made guy in a family and thats it. "In the life" means that you're a part of the underworld, that you conduct illegal activity with and around other gangsters. Helfant was a racketeer, so he was definitely "in the life", and participated in, during his time on the other side of courts and the court system, illegal activity, at the behest of the mobsters that he'd prosecute and defend. He made his bed, and someone simply made him lie in it. And I don't know if you're aware but back during those times, but they worked hand in hand with the gangsters in their city, Helfant was no different. Again, he made his bed, he had to lie in it. Simple.

Don't be lazy. Look for it yourself. It's on google where you find everything else you proclaim to be true.

Yes Helfant wasn't a innocent victim I agree BUT that doesn't mean you go ahead a murder him like they did. Scarfo was just a psycho

I just asked a question.

nothing personal moe,,but I like love not war..an old hippie if u will.

Hoodlum, Fuk that GUY!

Hoodlum, Fuk that GUY!

Does anyone think there actually will b a movie made about the little scumbag,if done right, it would b a doozie..maybe martin scorseze could finance & beef it up a bit ...no?? T always thought BLOOD & Honor WOULD MAKE A GOOD FLICK..thoughts???

I always thought the vincent falcone murder was totally unnecessary and quite indictative of scarfo's treachery.
It always seemed as though he was killed for fun as if he looked for an excuse to have his nephew commit his first murder.

Joe Pesci is 73? Wow. And yeah, Frankie Valli would do great, but isn't he on the older side as well nowadays? And I agree also that Michael Imperioli can do Leonetti just fine.

They also could film in Ducktown , just as long as they kick all the Mexicans out and hire Italian actors. Angeloni's, Angelo's, White House, etc are all still in the neighborhood and the distinct neighborhood houses are all still in tact....

Joe Pesci is 73? Wow. And yeah, Frankie Valli would do great, but isn't he on the older side as well nowadays? And I agree also that Michael Imperioli can do Leonetti just fine.

The perfect young Nick sr would be a younger " Martin Sheen "

I always thought the vincent falcone murder was totally unnecessary and quite indictative of scarfo's treachery.
It always seemed as though he was killed for fun as if he looked for an excuse to have his nephew commit his first murder.

Joe Pesci is 73? Wow. And yeah, Frankie Valli would do great, but isn't he on the older side as well nowadays? And I agree also that Michael Imperioli can do Leonetti just fine.

I don't think that was his first ... I also think Vince and Phil did a couple that the Feds did not put out there.


Vince was no different then any of these guys .... he was a killer also ...

They also could film in Ducktown , just as long as they kick all the Mexicans out and hire Italian actors. Angeloni's, Angelo's, White House, etc are all still in the neighborhood and the distinct neighborhood houses are all still in tact....

I know.. that's a trip..and the real house as well..26 N. Georgia Ave..

Well, Vincent Falcone wasn't Phils first murder. The Louie DeMarco hit was, Falcone participated in this murder as well, as a shooter and along with Leonetti, emptied an entire clip into DeMarco. And Falcone had been a trusted member of the Scarfo group since the early 70's, he was a wannabe just like Leonetti was, but once Nicky began to rise in the Philadelphia crime family, he felt Falcone & his best friend Alfredo Ferrara (I think thats what his last name was) were dead weight. So he planned to have Falcone kill Alfredo, as a way to separate them, as Nicky felt threatened by the two and their closeness. Alfredo ends up disappearing and isn't seen around Ducktown anymore. One night, Chuckie & Lawrence Merlino run into Falcone one night, and whose he with? None other than Alfredo Ferrara, so the Merlino's end up drinking with them and getting them wasted, and they start talking, Falcone starts to say that Scarfo is crazy and he and Leonetti have no business in the concrete business...Falcone's fate was sealed right there, as Nicky & Phil basically felt that Falcone stopped following orders and was talking submersive about Phil & his uncle.

I was not part of there business, I only herd stuff that was not damaging to them . I herd more stuff from the girls of these guys, many were neighborhood girls .

There was never a time did they talk business in front of me , stuff like Yogi that was not news back then " it was just every day life , they did not consider that stuff private .

I can see them speaking amongst each other and other guys from the neighborhood who may not have been involved in the illegal aspect of things, and how things like being "knocked down" wouldn't be considered private to them. You're speaking mostly around and too guys you've grown up with and known your whole life. I think that's plausible.

Serp,



How was the wake???

I know Scarfo had good relations with the Genovese (and had his son Nicky Jr made into the Lucchese family so Joey Merlino won't be able to whack him), but what were his relationships with the other families (especially the DeCavalcante, New England, Gambino, Bonanno, and Colombo families) like?

What is the earliest that Nick Jr. can get out, considering he is a model prisoner?

I wonder what his plans will be at age 82? Did he and his dad have a final conversation with Sr. telling Jr., you HAVE to get Merlino for what he did to you and us.
If Jr. was able to hold power for his father in jail, the Stanfa-Merlino war may never have taken place...Believe that was a pipe dream though. No one respected Scarfo enough to keep fighting for his vision.

It would also be prettty crazy if Merlino is STILL the boss 30 years from now.
He could potentially be in power longer than Persico and Maggadino.

SOMEONE will make a move in 30 years time, come on, It's Philly!

Was Phil a lil snake in this whole thing, he obviously liked or rather benefited from the situation. In his book he told Chuckie the same thing- not to come down etc

In your opinion Serp, was there ever any truth to the allegations- that Chuckie had "treason" on his mind. Faffy & Tommy D also benefited

RE: Scarfo's murder of the longshoreman.

I'm pretty positive Scarfo started that fight by throwing his weight around and ordering the longshoreman out of his seat.

But by all means if someone starting a confrontation, escalating it, throwing the first punch and fatally stabbing someone after getting his ass handed to him is "self-defense" then so be it.

I'm also pretty positive I read Scarfo had company when it happened.

Just like Merlino and Gotti, it isn't the modus operandi of guys like Scarfo to fight one on one.

Gang assault is the name of the game.

Thanks Serp for the insight

Wasn't it just bad timing Nicky decided to pull down Chucky after all them yrs & not long after- they're all locked up. Joey would have had to share power with Nick jr possibly

And Scarfo that maniac really messed up playing the tough guy telling a roomful of guys," if he makes one move I'll kill him and his entire family"

Skinny definitely made him pay for them sleepless nights he caused

Not for nothing but scarfo was a boxer i believe gotti wasnt and merlino was a jockey. So scarfo probaly had better hands then most mob guys even if he was the size of connor McGregor

Scarfo was a mean guy but when they stuck him in that Texas jail by the border... I bet he didn't dare bother anyone

& luckily for him he had money to hire two bodyguards who happened to be very loyal

Back then Mexico was a different place, if he tried that now. They'd likely blackmail him for all he has and still chop off his head- for fun

Damn- no service. That's odd

I don't know for sure, but maybe the Church would not do one because he had murders to his name? If I remember right, they did not do one for Gotti either.

Belmont: I think you are right , Nick loved the sport but I never seen him in the courtyard of his property hitting a bag or even when the boys got older did not have heavy bags hanging in the yard under the porches or decks.( he did have pictures and gloves in his office and the big one he got from Rocky Marciano brother )

The time with the longshoremen I am sure he was pushed , he was the type to let you say something and walk away to wait a day or a year or ten years to come back at you.

And also about the longshoremen and Bruno banishing or not liking Nick is bullshit !!! And it's been told by family as bullshit for as long as I can remember.

Bruno would be at Nicks in the summer many times ..... trust me when you see the Boss of the Philly mob come down Georgia ave that in the summer would be packed with kids in the street cos the schoolyard was right there and we used it and the street as a ball field , so people would know when when Bruno was coming up the street not always but often.

Bruno kept Nick close cos of his uncles Bruno knew there was no love there so he had a edge keeping tract of the family on that end.

Nick was not banished he took over his skippers rackets and his family was here , it all came around the same time.

It's is not like every soldier was making a fortune in Philly back then so Nick knew that all the many many mob guys from NY and other groups were getting very old in AC and knew it would be all his.

Don't forget 20 years before Nick came here you had a major underworld figure evevy three blocks !!!!!

AC was no joke , it was loaded with mob guys cos it was excepted .

Every mayor did time or was totally involved in illegal activity until the 90s !!!!

Serp..Was'nt skinny razors territory also A.C.??...that would also make sense for nick...

I cant believe skinny's old Family Lounge is still operating @ 8th & Washington..run by a distant relative I assume,,very dingy inside!I know that's going off topic,sorry.

It's called Friendly's Lounge... Pretty sure Scarfo murdered someone in there too, but I can't remember exactly. I'll ask next time I'm in there haha not

It's called Friendly's Lounge... Pretty sure Scarfo murdered someone in there too, but I can't remember exactly. I'll ask next time I'm in there haha not

1039 South 8th Street. Skinny Razor's Philly HQ but the license was held by Scarfo's Capo Freddy Iezzi who was made Capo after Skinny Razor died. Iezzi late transferred the license to his wife. I've heard Skinny Razor set up guys to be killed there, maybe Scarfo was involved, but I have seen no stories that say he was involved with any particular murder there.