Wow, 41 years old, worlds dumbest criminal, there's no way he doesn't crumble over time. What an idiot!!

how many scarfo guys are out here tho?

wonder how the nyc guys feel about this

Yeah just saw on the news that he's been officially charged on channel 6abc and they show depitro's mother in tears saying with her son now dead shes feels dead. What a god damn shame

This is funny you found this article giancarlo I had mentioned this a few times on here before that a friend told me about but never saw this article. Thanks for the post, good find!

Welcome BirdMoney I see you be stacking chedda when your flipping birds? Haha I'm j/k..Cool Name...I know there's a handful of them out or one or two that are coming out in the next few years. Check out the archives on the site just using the searl tool bar and theres a scaro's Capos thread that talks about a few guys Charlie White Iaanecce

Nicodemo is really stupid.

That was a great find[article about Pagans and Nicodemo]I had heard about that but never knew the details

like 8 or so

So wait, is this dumb prick basically fucked? If he is, who's not expecting him to rat?

Not only did this jackwagon of an idiot destroy the lives of the victim's family, but he also destroyed the life of his two young children. now two little kids will be asking why isn't their dumbass father around anymore. In a way, it probably is the best thing for them and maybe, just maybe they can live a normal life without him and his criminal ways in their lives.

First, can the state really make a deal with a cold blooded killer? This guy wasn't arrested for typical LCN crimes or even for ordering a hit, it was over the top blatent. I would think a jury would heavily discount his testimony..

Secondly, the sadest part is he's a made guy driving a Honda Pilot, jeeesh.....

Story running on Fox 29 with Dave S and his interview with former FBI agent Friel, i think, Friel liek everyone else call Nicodemo the dumbest guy ever he says, he understands some of teh reasons it may have occured, but he states, "why not kidnapp him or make him disappear, never to be heard from again"

You know what, reading more into the details of this hit, this is the dumbest hit I have seen in the History of my time on the fucking Internet! When I saw the grabbing headlines I was expecting to see something more "Mafia-like" but this just looks like the dumbest fucked has just picked up a gun like a child playing with a toy and walking up to somebody and being like "Ooo trigger, what does this do" as if he wanted to get caught!

I'm sorry but common, he's a made guy and by that definition he is expected for the most part to be a career criminal with at least some experience of how to do things the "Right" way not the "wrong" way. I could fucking orchestrate a better murder myself and I'm not a killer or the cleverest fuck a live either. This guy is just begging to be made an example of. < Heh, Joe Pesci quote anyone?

Seriously some of these mobsters in America....

Antonio you are right and its made a bigger deal because he is connected but this is just another dumb murder that take place in plain site everyday in philly

thanx alot

Is Joey a bouncer/doorman now...? How the mighty have fallen, lol..

GODFATHER 101: He shoulda listened to clemenza: Leave the Gun Take The Canoli. Get in a different car..

Mob Soldier Charged in Gangland "Dumb" Hit
Mob soldier Anthony Nicodemo has been charged with first degree murder in a gangland shooting that one police investigator called the "dumbest" mob hit he has ever seen.

A former federal prosecutor agreed, calling the broad daylight slaying of Gino DiPietro Wednesday afternoon "amateurish" but indicative of what the Philadelphia crime family has become.

Nicodemo, 41, was taken in to custody less than 30 minutes after the shooting. Witnesses had spotted him fleeing the scene in an SUV and gave authorities the license tag number. The vehicle was registered in Nicodemo's name and listed at his address, a few blocks from where DiPietro was gunned down.

The married father of two young children was arrested at that home without incident. He was charged with murder and related offenses Thursday afternoon after a ballistic test linked a gun found in his car with a bullet fragment from the murder scene. Police also found gloves and a ski mask in the vehicle, a black Honda Pilot, according to an investigative source.
Using a car registered in your own name to carry out a mob hit is considered an underworld blunder of the highest order. Usually a stolen vehicle or an untraceable "junker" is used and then quickly abandoned.

Getting rid of the murder weapon -- in this case a Smith&Wesson .357 Magnum, is also paramount.

DiPietro, 50, a convicted drug dealer, was shot five times. Several sources said that he has been an informant for law enforcement and the motive for the hit may have been the fact that he was providing information about the unsolved murder of John "Johnny Gongs" Casasanto in November 2003.

Nicodemo has long been a suspect in that slaying and that fact has sent a ripple of shockwaves through the South Philadelphia underworld and, according to one source, all the way to Florida where former mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino is now living.

The long-term impact of Nicodemo's arrest could be devastating for the crime family now headed by Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, 71. Ligambi and six co-defendants are currently on trial in federal court in a racketeering conspiracy case built around allegations of gambling, loansharking and extortion.

Throughout the two-month trial, defense attorneys have tried to present the Ligambi organization as a non-violent band of benevolent bookmakers and loansharks. The shooting of DiPietro, just a few hours after the prosecution wrapped up its case, undermines that argument.

The jury is due back in court on Tuesday when the trial resumes and the defense begins to present its case. But first, U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo Robreno has said he intends to individually question each of the 17 jurors (there are five alternates) to determine if they had read or heard anything about the shooting and whether that had impacted their ability to fairly judge the case.

That's the short-term impact. The potentially more damaging impact depends on what Nicodemo does now. Will he fight the murder charge in Common Pleas Court and risk a potential life sentence? How will he hold up in a city prison -- never a pleasant place -- while waiting for the legal process to play out? Will he cut a deal?

Damion Canalichio, 44, a co-defendant with Ligambi in the ongoing trial, has also been mentioned in terms of the Casasanto investigation. What does he do? Does he roll the dice in the racketeering case, hoping to win an acquittal and than take his chances on what comes next. Or does he try to cut a deal before Nicodemot?

Those are the questions swirling around law enforcement and underworld circles.

The DiPietro shooting was a botched hit on several different levels. It was poorly planned and executed. The timing made no sense. Why do it while the racketeering trial was underway? DiPietro was not living in hiding. He could have been targeted at any time. Why not wait until the trial was over?

Several years ago a defense attorney, assessing the Philadelphia mob and a series of botched and bungled hits during the war between John Stanfa and Joey Merlino, quipped, "Goodfellas? This is dumbfellas."

Hardly the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight, the Philadelphia mob has become the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight. The DiPietro shooting is the latest example. It could open up a racketeering-murder investigation that will decimated what's left of the crime family.

The Casasanto murder is one of three (the others are the slayings of Ron Turchi and Raymond "Lont John" Martorano) that authorities believe were ordered by Ligambi. No one has ever been charged with those homicides.

Investigators also believe that Merlino, who had "personal problems" with Casasanto according to several sources, also approved the murder. Merlino was serving a racketeering sentence at the time Casasanto was killed. The murder was carried out in the victim's South Philadelphia rowhome. Police believe he unwittingly let the shooters in, indicating that he knew who they were and was comfortable dealing with them.

What Nicodemo knows about that murder could be the key that unlocks his prison cell door. Whether he's ready to make that move is the unanswered question. He now sits in a prison cell, about a mile, but light years removed from the neatly appointment home, festooned with holiday decorations, that he shared with his wife and two children.

He won't be home for Christmas.



Read more at http://www.bigtrial.net/2012/12/mob-soldier-charged-in-gangland-dumb-hit.html#vYDFr7sEyyhuB3XR.99

No problem. It sounds like some pretty crazy shit happened between the bikers and the local mob.

Here's a photo of the Pagan that Chucky Merlino ran over in 1982. John ''Egyptian" Kachabalian, he was the president of the Pagan chapter in philly after Jimmy DiGregorio got locked up and started cooperating with the law. Merlino ran him over so the bikers shot up what they thought was Merlino's house but it turned out to be his mothers. The same article talks a little about that incident too.

There are more Pagans in the 5 county area of Philly than ever. Not sure how organized they are, or how thay compare to the philly wiseguys though. Depending on if/when Nicodemo cooperates, some of them might be nervous as well.

In reading that old article that was posted, who's Billy DiPenna?

The recently released Scarfo guys must be loving this as far as the Nicodemo situation. The table is set for the Grande's, Narducci's, Charlie White, etc, to fill the void here if indictments come down.

Precisley, This could be Joeys undoing .

Nicodemo's mugshot from his murder arrest.



He's being charged with

1 / Murder
2 / Possession Of Firearm Prohibited
3 / Firearms Not To Be Carried W/O License
4 / Conspiracy Murder
5 / Carry Firearms Public In Phila
6 / Poss Instrument Of Crime W/Int

Can the Feds really get away with turning him into a cooperating witness? The victim's family is in mourning and probably want him locked up for life. How would it look if Nicodemo was allowed to walk free when this is a slam dunk guilty case for murder? This isn't an old unsolved murder that he was ordered to do. He carried it out a couple days ago at his own behest. Is Ligambi that big a target that they could let Nicodemo walk (or give him an easy sentence)?

looks like a dumby

No, but Joey Merlino is another story. I already addressed this earlier. If this guy can give them something, anything, that implicates Joey in an ancient murder, I'll bet the Feds would give Nicodemo some kind of deal. Not a five and out deal like Gravano or Leonetti, mind you. Those days are over. But maybe ten and out.

The Feds thought they had Merlino for life twelve years ago. It sticks in their craw when they don't get what they want. And this kid Nicodemo was already active during Joey's reign, so you never know what he can offer them (or lie about).

All roads lead to Boca .

I don't know pizzaboy, i think the feds have such a hardon for Merlino they would give whoever could deliver him a pretty sweet deal. Gravano was involved in 19 murders so giving someone a pass on just one might not seem like a bad deal to the feds if it resulted in Merlino going down for the count.

Oh, I absolutely wouldn't be shocked by that. Like I said, they want him badly. Again, all roads lead to Joey.

Bottome line: The Philly mob supporters are OUT OF THEIR MINDS if they think this murder doesn't impact this trial in some way. Whether it's this verdict or the next, the face of the Philly organized crime scene will be dramatically altered by what happened the other day.

That picture is the look of a guy who is saying 'what the bleep did I just do, my life is over'