You guys crack me up. You think it's a supernatural event to have street sources. A blog is by definition full of shit, you all think. I just want headlines. I've been a professional journalist for 25 years, covering the mob on my blog for four years. You honestly think I'd make stuff up? Sources, etc.? Every newspaper and blog uses anonymous sources. Capeci does. My sources obviously don't want to be named but that does not mean I don't know who they are; I do know and if I deem them creditable I use them otherwise I dont. Boy do I wish I could name them. People in all walks of life have an inherent desire to talk about their lives. With the mob, this is no exception -- who better to talk stuff over with? Just curious, where are you all from? I'm on Long Island.
Did you honestly just compare yourself to Capeci? haha
Thing is, Jerry's sources are usually on point. Otherwise he doesn't use them to make outlandish claims, and if he does(which is very rare), he is man enough to admit it.
Your sources were full of it on the Borgesi thing. Why can you not admit when you are wrong?
It's like when Pizzaboy called you out on Frankie Cali's age, and you refused to change it or admit wrong doing. I am glad Scott called you out in his latest write up. Someone needed to do it.
Borgesi scratching his head regarding boss report, Philly wiseguy trying not to make waves
Good ole’ Georgie Boy was just as shocked reading the news about himself, as most of those who were reading it about him were.
Last week, in a story on CoasNostraNews.com that has since been revised, George (Georgie Boy) Borgesi, the-recently released from prison 50-year old Philadelphia mafia stalwart was named the new boss of the Philly mob. Borgesi, the nephew of don Joseph (Uncle Joe) Ligambi, reached out to multiple people in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey media, expressing his dismay and confusion with the report that he deemed false, wondering where Coasnostranews' sources were getting their information.
Despite his pedigree and gangster past, the Philly mafia’s one-time consigliere is desperately trying to keep a low profile on the heels of his dozen-year plus trip to the can that came to an end a few months back.
The original printing of the story reported that Borgesi was using mob associates and brothers Mike and Stevie Salvo (roofers union) as his main proxies on the street, “grabbing everything back that was his before he went to jail” and taking over for the retiring Ligambi.
In January, Borgesi was sprung from federal prison after a 13-year stay on racketeering charges coupled with his beating further mafia-related charges alongside his uncle that came his way as he was about to be released from his 2000 conviction.
Ligambi and his nephew both beat the racketeering case twice at trial, most recently earlier this year, via hung-juries and acquittals.
Underworld sources in South Philly tell the Mob Insider that Ligambi is the syndicate’s current consigliere and Borgesi “might be able to get his stripes back as a capo or Ligambi’s replacement in his old post in the future, but for now, he’s merely a soldier.”
The sources peg Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino, convicted with Georgie Boy back in 2000, as boss of the crime family, ruling from afar in South Florida, relying on street boss Steven (Handsome Stevie) Mazzone and underboss John (Johnny Chang) Ciangalini to handle day-to-day affairs in Pennsylvania.
Borgesi is re-entering the Philadelphia mob at a delicate juncture right now, as multiple factions and eras jockey for position in a possible powder keg of a local gangland scene.
