I might have asked this before but did Merlino really snatch old ladies purses back in the day?

He was born in 1962 and only really came to prominence at the tail end of the 80s so there are a lot of blanks to fill in. I perish the thought of the sordid shit he got up to before the attempted Scarfo hit and the armored hijackings.

Imagine if one of Merlino's closest friends was to rat and write an expose book with Anastasia. Boy, that would be juicy!