Joey would have been whacked not made they all hated him philip hates the guy I mean they were beating up guys for even hanging around with joey (marty angelni)
Plus evens before scarfo fell out with chuckie he was always solving joeys problems when ever he caused problems philip would have to solve them
Plus philip said that joey was skimming the street tax money
Joey is a survivor. Survived a war, beat severe cases, fooled a lot of people as far as holding the official boss slot from when he went into the can until now...
Merlino is a little smarter, and savvier than people give him credit for
