Originally Posted by streetbossliborio
And I think the negative Joey Merlino comments are a mixture of ;

- Joeys treatment of scarfo junior
- jealousy of Joey who was a young kid with a shelved dad - who became longest serving boss, beat murder rap but served time, carries major respect and didn’t need to flip to Nebraska.. if you imagine Joey was a lil annoying kid when Merlino went away whilst Phil was the youngest UB around.

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I doubt very much jealousy has anything to do with it. I mean it’s not like Phil is the only one who doesn’t like Joey Merlino lol. Honestly he probably was stealing from them. He was/is a lot like Gotti in terms of the flashiness and impulsiveness