Yes, according to Ralph Natale the shooter on the Turra hit was Michael Virgilio. Natale said Merlino, Borgese and Mazzone were also involved but i don't recall the details on what he said their roles on the hit were.

Photo from the book "The Last Gangster"

Great picture Giancarlo

Well I guess like father like son with the Virgilio family...Nick The Blade was no joke...never remember hearing about his son really involved in much racket-wise and only as a Merlino hitter, but I don't think he was ever made...Veasey a made guy though? What a joke and a sign of the Stanfa times. Sure, John-John was tough as nails and got it done on Mikey Chang and Frank Baldino but a psychopathic street punk doesn't necessarily mean LCN material.

There's a pretty decent photo of Nick the Blade in Leonetti's book. It's from the early 1970's and Leonetti was visiting him at Leesburg State Prison in NJ. The Blade has long hair in it and i didn't even know it was him until i read the caption. Leonetti's in the picture too.

Kudos on the Virgillio picture... Love when you guys find these rare photos. Thanks so much for sharing them.

Virgillio has bigger boobs then michelle obama !!!

He likes his beer, wine , and pasta !

lol...Me too !!!

great picture of that mikey penknife. also veasey is an unimportant rat. only done a few hits great career. u can tell hes an ex junkie by the way he speaks. lucky to be getting a gig on tv shows. only thing hes ever done worth speaking about is get shot multiple time in the back of the head then fighting them off! who were the 2 idiots that shot him in that room? anyone know?

Vincent "Al Pajamas" Pagano and Frank Martines.

cheers. were they serious made guys? and did they get life after that then i take it?

cheers. were they seriouss made guys? whats their story? and i take it they got life for their troubles with veasey?

Martines i believe is doing a life sentence and Pagano got something like 70 or 80 years.

Martines was either the underboss under Stanfa or acting underboss. I think Pagano might of been a capo.

wow they were just erased from the streets. ranking guys also and couldnt pull off a simple hit on a fag like veasey. must of been pretty old ey

Nice read on Veasey..

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/john-john-veasey-s-life-after-the-philly-mob/3/

He was only 5 ft. 7! I thought he was a giant.