He's been in jail for a while now, do you think it will dawn on him he won't be out for 20 + years soon and turn rat? Or do you think he will stick it out?

Welcome by the way.

Scarfo?//never in a million yrs., that's if he even croaks at all..like his nephew said,he wont die until he or his mother goes, & Nancy is gone so...

Not Scarfo Sr. he means Anthony Nicodemo, but he's from the scarfo/merlino school those guys will never flip.

He's been in jail for a while now, do you think it will dawn on him he won't be out for 20 + years soon and turn rat? Or do you think he will stick it out?

Welcome by the way.

Nicodemo wasn't the shooter on the hit--he was driving the getaway car, which even the Feds admit. The shooter hopped out of Nicodemo's Honda and blasted DiPietro, then hopped back in--all in broad daylight. Most people in SP would just look the other way, but there was a postman right there who described the shooter as "short and stocky."

Now, pretty much everybody assumes that it was Baby Dom Grande (including the feds), but they can't make a case if Nicodemo won't rat--Nicodemo was caught with the gun in his car, and no one else can ID Grande. So basically Nicodemo must know that Grande and others will take care of his wife and kid while he's away (and also watch his business interests--guy was pretty successful in the legit world), because even as a guy doing 25 years, he has the ultimate card to play--he can take down the whole family if he flips.

I think the Philly FBI office also suspects Nicodemo was in on the Johnny Gongs hit, and he was also Merlino's driver at one point. He knows a lot.

What is the story with this Merlino guy and his LCN family? Was just told that they had a beef and beer fund raiser for Merlino. Are these guys for real or what!!! What a joke these guys really are. This is what the Philly mob turned into today. No respect, no loyalty, and most importantly NO MONEY. WTF!!! Next thing we will hear is that they are having a yard sale.

Everyone knows Dom Grande was the shooter in the DiPietro hit in South Philly, law enforcement just doesn't have enough evidence to charge him. Grande reported to Nicodemo and Nicodemo proposed Grande to be made. Grande and Nicodemo also had legitimate real estate investments together. The Borgata Bookmaking bust is a perfect example of Nicodemo's "crew" I use the word crew loosely, more like his criminal network. 9/10 of those guys in the Borgata Bust were loyal to Nicodemo, Mikey Lance only got roped into that bust because he was Nicodemo's captain the time of the Borgata bust (charges were eventually dropped on Mikey Lance)

Anyone have an idea of this "Twitch" character is mentioned as a suspect in the Johnny Gongs hit when the investigation was just initially started:

http://mycitypaper.com/articles/2003-11-27/cb.shtml

Only guy I could think of would be Mikey "Penknife" Virgilio. "Twitch" because of the tourettes.

is merlino firmly in charge of philly or is mazzone still the street boss? and if you are from philly and know some of these guys, do you think mazzone is more effective as a boss than merlino? merlino seems small time compared to some of the bosses that have come out of philly. i only know what i read on philly.

Merlino is still considered the Boss. Though a lot of people would agree that on the street; Mazzone has more respect. He's the go between the Merlino faction and Scarfo guys like the Narducci's and Pungitore's.

at this day in age, it's only a matter of time before grande gets indicted or caught on tape without nicodemo having to say anything. If that happens, he could appeal and get out earlier or withtime served on a lesser offense. plus nicodemo has a gorgeous wife, won't be long at her young age before she's had enough and that could change the entire ballgame

I'm sure Nicodemo was aware of all of this before agreed to plead guilty. He knows as well as anyone in Philly how the life works. Since no witnesses could identify the shooter, I don't think Grande ever gets arrested unless he's caught saying something on wiretap or Nicodemo flips.

good info, thanks irishkaos. do you think the scarfo faction would rather deal with mazzone or merlino? i know alot of those guys were close to joeys dad but i always wondered what they truly thought of joey.

They thought of Joey as a punk kid, who if not for his dad probably would have went. They absolutely would rather deal with Mazzone and clearly do. I'm sure Ligambi also helped to make it a smooth transition for a lot of Scarfo guys coming home in recent years but from what most believe is that Merlino has no contact with any of the Scarfo Era guys. Maybe even one reason why when he got out, he setup in Boca Raton.