it was the fox 29 crew but they turned it over to the FBI who now have permission to use it in a indicment like the ligambi and lou meeting was used in court that was done by fox 29



come on he has to prove how he is earning true lottery stands bring in money but not the sort of money he makes

johnny chang is a major earner

No. The Ligambi/Monacello video actually was Philly PD or FBI surveillance, not from Fox 29.

I know Johnny Chang is a big earner; where did I say he wasn't? He has always been one of the best earners around the upper echelon of the family for quite some time now. He earns well because he controls all of the gambling and loan sharking in Delaware County on top of whatever other rackets he has going.

His wife owns the news stand, and I think Johnny worked there just to show some sort of "regular job" during the day and to have a place where he could have people come by to meet and talk. I understand what you're trying to say about the news stand, but it's not laundering money, and there's no proof that he was doing so. Most likely he and his wife use it for tax purposes to show legitimate income.

K1ng- nice find on the Esposito picture.. Where did you find it if you dont mind me asking? I have been searching for over 3 years and i find a lot of pictures!! And are you 100% that it is Eric Esposito that was indicted with Uncle Joe and them back in 2011?

Little off topic but I want people's opinion on this was just thinking to myself what if Joey and Mike and the rest of the young guys fell in line and did as they were supposed in the early 90s with Stanfa would they have still been made as quickly, would they have been indicted with Stanfa and gotten life terms with all those guys? Did going rougue actually allow them to disassociate themselves with Stanfa and allow them to stay on streets longer? Basically, if they fell in line would they still have dodged the Stanfa indictment and taken over the family anyways like they did in '94 except minus all the bloodshed and losing Mikey Chang, etc? It seems to me, and this can most certainly be argued, that had Stanfa stayed on the streets another year or two Joey and those guys would most likely have been killed eventually. The timing of that indictment was pretty lucky and I just think it's funny when people and even those guys say "oh we fought and won for this family"... No the Feds essentially gave it to you on a silver platter.

I would think Stanfa would want as many level headed guys ,and earners also .
Now he was around New York for some time and he was in Philly for some time.
It would make sense that he would take the under bosses son and a skippers sons in.

Plus that would plug him into the guys that wanted the life from the hood.

As far as the indictments I would think that whom ever left standing under him would get the family the way they like things to go.
So Skinny and Mike I am sure would have been there if not in the indictment.

Merlino at memories last night.

Skinny Joey must be personally getting the envelopes from the Geator these days it seems....

Perhaps you're right, but the mob talk video on youtube with Anastasia, states that it was Fox 29 who filmed that meeting, and that the FBI sent a subpoena to Fox for that video.

He is back in the loop,he was at the Nuggett the other night with a couple of the old AC guys.

I know he doing a show there soon ,but this was pleasure.
He was asked to sit in the pavilion at the concert the other night ,don't know if he took up the offer I did not see him.

Skinny Joey is blacklisted from entering any AC casino , I know this as fact.

Geator does a regular weekly show at the nugget in the summer in the H2O pool club there and if it rains they move it inside. I caught it once last summer- I was the youngest person in there by 30 years lol

Yearh but he ignores it back in the 90s he got caught on camera in one of the casinos he plead guilty and got a fine he told Ron previte on tape he was not going to making plea he was going to say the video was fake but he was with these girls and he did not want it to end up on tv where his wife could see

YES I get you he was with old heads from AC ,no Skinny I don't think I said Skinny was there .I said he Jerry is back in the fold as per your post.

I feel like I am going in circles today.

I think your right Dante. I remember when Uncle Joe was the boss, he used come in Memories on Saturday night early before it opened up for the night , walked in the back where Blavat was. Ten minutes later he would walked out.

Stevie - Yes, I'm sure 110% that it's the right Eric Esposito. It's actually kind of funny how I found the picture. I needed a picture of him for the Philly chart, and like you, I couldn't find one of him anywhere! I did countless searches all over the internet and then just happened to stumble across his name and picture one day when I was looking for something else.

The picture of Esposito actually comes from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. He is excluded from every casino in the state, and that is how I found the picture - from Pennsylvania's exclusion list. I also found Ralph Abruzzi, Nicholas Cimino (associate), Andrew Micali (associate), Vincent Procopio (associate), and Jack Buscemi, Jr. (associate) on that list, as well. There may even be others on there; I just skimmed over it real quick.

Here is the link to Pennsylvania's Exclusion List:
http://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/?p=173&list=photo

You can scroll down to Esposito's picture, or just take this link to his page:
http://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/files/exclusion/eric_esposito.pdf

Esposito's page contains the following information from the Gaming Control Board that allowed me to confirm that it was him:

On February 24, 2014, Mr. Esposito was convicted on Conducting an Illegal Gambling Operation and Aiding and Abetting Illegal Gambling. On May 28, 2014, Esposito was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment, followed by three (3) years of probation. Esposito also patronized Commonwealth Casinos between 2010 and 2014 and was issued Reward Cards from a Casino located in Chester, PA and Philadelphia, PA.

You can see his conviction date and that his sentencing date was May 28, 2014. This following press release from the Justice Department, dated May 28, 2014, gives information about Philadelphia mafia soldier Eric Esposito and his sentencing information. The press release also gives his age as 43, and the exclusion list has his date of birth as 1970 (no month/day listed).

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/philadelphia-la-cosa-nostra-soldier-sentenced-serve-27-months-prison

Great pic and very interesting. I never really seen Dom with Joey. Not that they don't know each other but never seen a pic of them or out together...ever. Even in the late 90s before Joey got booked and was in Margate and out in SP, i didn't see them talk that much back then. But Dom was more about his boys and his corner and their hustle and parting then the life. Then he changed it up. I don't know the specifics besides maybe making money booking or something and then got with Al Lance and then Nicodemo and then his crew basically changed overnight besides a few people he is still cool with but don't see him with much. But that happens with everyone as they get older.

Very, very nice. Everyone says that. But lets not act like she doesn't know the deal. That Lotto/news stand was in her name and she knows the deal...

Sorry, I didn't get to the lottery stand talk yet when I quoted a post. Nobody knows for sure but that stand was used for something. Maybe just a front for income...idk.

Anyway, can't believe my post is still going!

And Joey has been around almost all Summer. Probably will go back to Florida in the Fall...OR Maybe not?!?

johnny chang really loves her aswell according to ralph natale he was the only mobster who never cheated on his wife.

so chang is a good guy to his wife, and sonny mazzone beats his in public

Sonny should find a new wife, look what she made him do.

Skinny was in the Green House last night with all the younger AC guys taking pictures. Little Johnny Boy was in a couple pic. He is a trip boy .. I guess H Steve will find them on the social media ...

Sounds like Merlino is done with laying low

As soon as he got off those restrictions, seems like he has barely been back to FL at his restaurant

Johnny boy was hanging with Merlino a lot this summer. I used to see him with Nicky whip alot in the past.

Really ,, same one I am talking about , his daddy was around Phil and Nick ..his old man killed that guy when he dropped Jonny on his head on the boardwalk when Jonny was a boy ...Don't want to post last name if it's not same guy .

Help me out with the Perna thing.....isn't he on some type of restriction against associating? Either waiting to be sentenced or parole?

I don't know nothing about him really. Met him with the whip a few years ago. But he has been with merlino a few times at the greenhouse. I never knew his connection with those guys.

If it's only down here then I would think its him . But if he is in Florida and Philadelphia not so much .

@Flamingo- based on your sightings and local knowledge where do you see Nicky Whip fitting into this picture? I don't know much about his situation and even heard back when he was released from jail that Ligambi wanted to or did shelve him? Who is he associating or hanging with within the factions/organization? Sounds like he's definitely active and back in the mix either way though, right?

He's been back in FL, but the restaurant is closed for the season. And this news of Merlino having a Florida crew is pretty interesting, since it's something the feds claim he's been developing since 2012..They also were aware of his hooking up with Stanley Stein before it ever became public information.

http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-29/news/31111009_1_joey-merlino-mob-boss-la-cosa-nostra