thanks for checking me on Maniscalco in the Philly mob hit list....somehow it slipped my mind

scott

Very logical to connect the dots with Riccobene and Rocky maniscalco. But, it wasn't entirely like that. Maniscalco was not throwing anything in anyone's face. He had more than some people and jealousy and greed rule. He was a businessman and a family man. I hope his family gets closure.

I hear ya on that, does anyone know who took over his book after that? There is a huge void in the philly area with bookmakers if mastranardo and a few others or their associates did not take over....it would be a lucrative time for the philly family to step into the millions that are out there from center city to the main line from the $100/game guy and on on up to the big movers

maniscalco wasnt made was he? Do you know or did the cops say who they think wacked him? For Ligambi being low key, theres what 4 murders attributed to him during his reign? I mean no where near the scarfo numbers but more than you'd think considering how LE portrayed him in the media IMO

It's all relative though. Compared to what went before him then you can see why the portrayed him that way. Look at the bosses in NY, hardly a hit there in years and people will say similar things even though it's not strictly true.

His sister in the article made it sound like Borgesi had his fingerprints all over it from the can. Wouldn't surprise me if that lunatic orchestrated it.

I have doubts of this hit being mob related for the fact that it came about a year before Ligambi and co got picked up. If the Feds had any leads they would have held off until they could tie this murder into it. Especially regarding Borgesi, Bent Finger was flipping and flopping in both trials with his stories about George yet he had nothing on this hit and he was in his words George's man on the street?

Southphilly, those are some great points, but I wonder what bent lou really knew because he also didnt say crap about niccodemo in that case and he is supposed to be involved in 2 of those murders, so not sure what all he was privy to or telling the truth about and you had the aponick dude with borgesi in west virginia didn't learn anything going on in philly, but good point s philly

There's also this 1996 murder I'm sure they will try and pin on Merlino and Borgesi as well.

http://articles.philly.com/2000-11-12/ne...cketeering-case

I don't wanna slow this thread traffic but, these murders haven't been solved for 5-10-15 years because no one is talking. IF, IF any/some/all of these bodies can be attributed to skinny and crew, someone's gotta talk. And, so far, everyone has stood up. Some are standing tall too.

This could change, if someone gets picked up. But until then, it's all speculation. There is nothing remotely new in any of these articles, posts, etc. including me.

My prediction: skinny walks out of jail to much more speculation and resumes his gig at the restaurant.

I was wondering if Merlino had ever been indicted on the Sodano murder, after reading Previte's book. One has to wonder if that'll pop up in the future too.

He was indicted in Newark, NJ for the Sodano hit and was acquitted.

Philly PD trying to reign in the drug corners in n philly and moving away from s philly

http://citypaper.net/article.php?The-Departed-23078

That's an old article from the city paper back in I want to say 2007 about Philly PD Organized crime detectives being peeled away from LCN.

yea I got that impression as well, Borgesi seems like a total psychopath and a bully, but not necessarily a tough guy with his fists...thats a total guess but he comes off as a guy like tommy desimone not physically tough but psychotic and quick to use a weapon....anyone have a number/list of how many hits Borgesi is suspected of carrying out? I realize that it would be a total guess since we don't know for sure, but just curious as to who besides Maniscalco?

Rat Finger Lou testified that Borgesi signaled with his hands that he was personally involved in 11 homicides to Rat Finger while driving around South Philly once

thanks for the response Dante, if thats true, who do you think is among that 11? Normally I wouldnt even ask such a question bc theres plenty of mob hits that we wouldnt know about in like NY, NJ or Chicago, but philly there havent been that many since the Stanfa/Merlino war ended...So I got maniscalco, maybe Roger Vella? Veaseys brother (altho I think i read that was Mazzone), Long John Martirano? That guy that was fucking Deb merlino?

The others like Johnny Gongs, Di Pietro were rumored to be Nicodemo...just wonderin if anyone has a guess for hit list for Georgie boy

FREE MAN

http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=301156881

You pretty much summed it up

wags made book but I think that was pretty much it

Most likely Joey's courier/middle man for messages and funds

Joey can just have his meetings out in the water off boca now, not sure anyone could get a wire into the atlantic, but im sure the feds have some type of water proofing listening devices at their disposal

Probably strap a bug to a dolphin and make it swim around the boat.

Thats some good shit right there........ just get a hot south american beauty to bounce around the near fellas and frolic around in the water and put some listening devices implanted into her gimmicks their eyes would always be on the mikes

wow Joey's out now...over/under 2 months on how long until hes spotted meeting with some member of the family?

From the link merlino provided above: "Mob Boss Joey Merlino now free to associate with whoever he wants. Philly pals headed to Florida."


I'll take the under.

I don't think the high end clientele that the brothers dealt with wants anything to do with any mobbed up bookmakers. Nor do any of them have the sterling reputation when it comes to bookmaking that they did.

Totally different clientele. Philly mob connected book makers are servicing the dead beats, the 500 dollar bets.

The other guys were servicing the well off. 50k type bets.

Newest Scott Article on Merlino

According to Scott it looks like Skinny Joey is putting the band back together in Boca this weekend, LOL!

Since Borgesi was recently mentioned is this article i just wanted to say I saw him a few minutes ago. I didn't want to create any thread but I know some guys like to hear that stuff. I guess I wanted to post this to say he looking healthy/good and not showing off. He got into a a newer model honda accord. Nothing fancy about him. Maybe he will miss the next indictment because it appears most of his activities since he went to jail and subsequently came out was all with Bent Lou and his Uncle Joe. Those trials are over. Thats if its a new indictment based on new info. Id think they would need a serous rat to get him on some old murder charge. The Feds definitely thought they were gonna get Nicodemo to flip and he was the key to bringing down the "kingdom". Lol at kingdom

you see him in philly or jersey...maybe he gots himslef a new legit job!!!! Nice find