Originally Posted by irishkaos
Originally Posted by PHL_Mob
Originally Posted by irishkaos
Originally Posted by thebigfella
I'm not sure but I think staino should be getting out either this year or next. I don't think staino is retiring, he just have to stop drinking, staino should keep his crew. I would let ligambi's retire and make room for lucibello in the admin...it was said lucibello was one of the guys that had a sit-down with Borges when he was beefibg


I thought word was that Staino was sick and retired?


Yeah I heard that Staino was in bad shape and deteriorating pretty rapidly with his sickness and wasn't holding up too well in prison. Lots of weight loss and other symptoms. This was roughly a year or so ago that I heard this though so maybe there's a chance that he's made a recovery and has since rebounded? I don't know that much about Staino to be honest, but was always intrigued by his allocution. He seemed genuinely remorseful and genuine with regards to renouncing the life especially upon his release from the can, but then again, those crocodile tears filled renunciations of The Life that these mob guys put on for the judge are very common and many of them say this kind of stuff while returning to the life immediately upon their release so who knows where his head actually is at?


Yeah, doubt he was the first guy to put on that act. Staino has always sorta been an unknown to people. Have heard he's a money guy/intelligent from some, then also hear he's a legit tough guy. Only thing that's really known is he's Ralph Staino's nephew. I don't even think Anthony was in the life until his early 40s.


Actually Staino has been around and at the very least a fringe guy since the 80s. He was obviously Ralph Staino's nephew and during the late 80s and very early 90s he was a Business Agent for Local 54 appointed by Scarfo and was actually banned from Union involvement in the early 90s. He was a high-level Associate in the mid-to-late 90s during the Merlino years and then became close with Ligambi upon Uncle Joe getting released from prison in 97. He's valuable as far as the mob goes because, as you mentioned above, he's an earner and a tough guy and can hold his own. In the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s he was doing a lot of Real Estate deals down in Florida for Uncle Joe and made a lot of money for the two of them doing that using money from his gambling and shy so he definitely gets it and knows how to make it and then make more of it by continuing to keep it flipping. Then he got made in the mid-2000s and the rest is history, which is pretty well documented.