So has anyone else read this weeks Gangland article about Merlino and Paciello exchanging words at a Miami Heats game? Seems really interesting and I am surprised we didn't hear about this sooner. I've read many of articles on the internet about Paciello and his history. He must have brass balls walking around like that in the spotlight after cooperating with the feds, and especially if he really got up in Joeys face. Although I doubt Paciello said to Merlino, "That's right, I'm a rat, and I'm here, at the same game as you. And if you got anything to say, I'll crack you in the fucking head and knock your teeth out,"...

There is all kinds of organized crime in Florida plus LCN so im actually surprised Chris Paciello is still around honestly. and it was said that Paciello is friendly with several other former New York-based gangsters who became cooperating witnesses that now live in Florida. One is Fabio Bartolotta, the former leader of the Queens-based Giannini crew..

Isn't Joey 5'3" area? and Chris about 5'9" Chris also looks like he still works out and maintains his body (not saying joey doesn't). If it would be a one on one fist fight I'd give the upper hand to Chris...but one of them would pull a knife or gun...

one would def. pull a weapon. if not a weapon they would have one of there muscle head boys whoop the others ass. but with Merlino on parole, i dont see him doing anything at the present, if he does anything at all

Merlino is still on supervised release and the feds definatly have a raging hard on for him, so i doubt he would even consider doing anything that would get him sent back to prison over a low life like paciello. And i said this in the philly thread and ill say it again that the fact merlino is having meetings with that jerkoff danny provenzano about making a movie together should speak volumes that hes pretty much done with LCN. But hey i could be wrong, you never know.

I don't know man, those mobsters love the lime light

Don't know about the lime light .

But these new guys better start putting some "body's on the floor"
or everything thousands of wiseguys did is all in vein .

"Dam this gets me heated"

I doubt they will hit Paciello or any other rat for that matter. Vinny Ocean is walking around Houston just down the road from Louisiana probably more worried about the cartels random violence than LCN.

The little cub that was the FBI has grown into a full lion and by taking out one if its "team America" boys, the FBI would throw LCN around like a rag doll. Besides the power is gone, all thats left is the memories of what used to be a good thing.

This is old news guys.. surprised gangland is now posting it... anyways... apparently Chris walked up to Joe and said something to him along the lines of "yeah I ratted", and Joe did the right thing, he got up and walked away. Joe may be 5'2" but he was and still is keeping in VERY good shape and can definitely defend himself if needed (think about it, anyone who plays sports knows it's a lot harder to catch and take down the little guys as opposed to the taller and often times slower brawny guys) HOWEVER Joe values his freedom A LOT more than wasting his time publicly settling a petty dispute over water under the bridge, and the truth is NO ONE gives a crap about Chris Paciello, his ratting, or his money losing nightclubs full of played out tricks. So in this scenario, we can let Paciello take out his aggression's on his parole officers, his lawyers, or the IRS and just fuck off and go away.

Merlino, Bro...I got your back! Somebody play a rap song!

hey my man nothing about the mob was ever a good thing. sorry but they are a bunch of thieves that stab or shoot you when you aint looking. who steal from their own cities restaruants, gas stations, delis owners and even unions some how..

lollll! their own neighborhood OR those rich fuckers across the bridge...

And so does this make you a bad person (cus thats all i know)

Capeci claims this happened in June but there was a post on another forum back in March (a few days after it happened) about this. So Capeci better check his source(s). Unless there was another incident between them...which i doubt.

They definitely had words at the game but exactly what was said between them isn't clear.

How Paciello has managed to stay alive is amazing to me, this is what's wrong with modern day LCN...