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Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Chopper » Sat Aug 01, 2020 11:23 am

chin_gigante wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 10:07 am viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6443

Compiled every Anastasia mob article from 1994 to 2012 when he moved over to Big Trial during the Ligambi case. The whole thing is over 650,000 words so I'm working on some summary notes.
Good stuff, buddy! Thanks for this.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Fughedaboutit » Sat Aug 01, 2020 10:44 am

chin_gigante wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 10:07 am viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6443

Compiled every Anastasia mob article from 1994 to 2012 when he moved over to Big Trial during the Ligambi case. The whole thing is over 650,000 words so I'm working on some summary notes.
Good work! Summary notes B style would be nice.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by chin_gigante » Sat Aug 01, 2020 10:07 am

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6443

Compiled every Anastasia mob article from 1994 to 2012 when he moved over to Big Trial during the Ligambi case. The whole thing is over 650,000 words so I'm working on some summary notes.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Fughedaboutit » Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:57 pm

Chopper wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:33 pm
Fughedaboutit wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:08 pm
NJShore4Life wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:49 am Joey was sending people to scout Nicky Jr in the 1990s as well to hit.
Well didn't he do the same when he heard Phil was in town and Phil sent him a message he knows where to find him and he never made a move.

I think it was Pete the Crumb scouting him.
You need to stop smoking so much weed buddy, Jesus.
After you put down the meth. :roll:

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Chopper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:33 pm

Fughedaboutit wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:08 pm
NJShore4Life wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:49 am Joey was sending people to scout Nicky Jr in the 1990s as well to hit.
Well didn't he do the same when he heard Phil was in town and Phil sent him a message he knows where to find him and he never made a move.

I think it was Pete the Crumb scouting him.
You need to stop smoking so much weed buddy, Jesus.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Chopper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:31 pm

Fughedaboutit wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:06 pm
Chopper wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:22 am
gohnjotti wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:49 am
Chopper wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 pm Interesting how Natale testified that according to him, Borgesi fed information to George Anastasia when it served his interests.

Never heard that one before and it would explain a couple of things.
:shock:

That changes a lot, especially considering Anastasia's recent flipflops around whether Borgesi is legit or not. Would love to hear the Philly experts weigh in.
Thats exactly what I meant. The flip flopping on Borgesi raised a few eyebrows, and apparantly they know each other quite well.

Also, Anastasia really went down a notch as a journalist in my book when he took the money grab and wrote that bullshit Alite book.

Anastasia later confirmed Borgesi was a source btw, it's all in there good stuff.
Well I mean you aren't paying the mans bills and your respect certainly isn't paying his mortgage. Doubt he was making much money off the mob talks.
That's not really my fucking point, now is it?

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Fughedaboutit » Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:08 pm

NJShore4Life wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:49 am Joey was sending people to scout Nicky Jr in the 1990s as well to hit.
Well didn't he do the same when he heard Phil was in town and Phil sent him a message he knows where to find him and he never made a move.

I think it was Pete the Crumb scouting him.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Fughedaboutit » Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:06 pm

Chopper wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:22 am
gohnjotti wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:49 am
Chopper wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 pm Interesting how Natale testified that according to him, Borgesi fed information to George Anastasia when it served his interests.

Never heard that one before and it would explain a couple of things.
:shock:

That changes a lot, especially considering Anastasia's recent flipflops around whether Borgesi is legit or not. Would love to hear the Philly experts weigh in.
Thats exactly what I meant. The flip flopping on Borgesi raised a few eyebrows, and apparantly they know each other quite well.

Also, Anastasia really went down a notch as a journalist in my book when he took the money grab and wrote that bullshit Alite book.

Anastasia later confirmed Borgesi was a source btw, it's all in there good stuff.
Well I mean you aren't paying the mans bills and your respect certainly isn't paying his mortgage. Doubt he was making much money off the mob talks.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by chin_gigante » Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:02 pm

I've compiled Anastasia's articles for the Inquirer from 1994 here:

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6443&p=160031#p160031

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by NJShore4Life » Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:49 am

Joey was sending people to scout Nicky Jr in the 1990s as well to hit.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Chopper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:43 am

Leonetti talked about that in his book with Scott, saying he heard Merlino's people were looking to hit him when he stayed at his grandmother. Something about being ready for them but they never showed up lol. Because Phil is just bad motherfucker 😁

Also, at one point Little Nicky phoned his mother from prison and Phil's mom picked up lol. I'm sure Scarfo was nothing but polite.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by chin_gigante » Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:34 am

One of the things I found the most interesting when I went through some of these back when I started diving more deep into Philly research was about Caprio's involvement in other murder conspiracies for Scarfo and Merlino:
- Caprio agreed to kill mobster Harry Riccobene during the early '80s mob war with boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, but the hit never came off.
- Caprio also agreed to kill mob turncoat Philip "Crazy Phil" Leonetti, a one-time Scarfo underboss who was to visit his ailing grandmother in Atlantic City.
"It was hot, a bad place to do murder. There was no place to hide and we couldn't ambush him," testified Caprio. Merlino called the hit off, he said.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Chopper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:22 am

gohnjotti wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:49 am
Chopper wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 pm Interesting how Natale testified that according to him, Borgesi fed information to George Anastasia when it served his interests.

Never heard that one before and it would explain a couple of things.
:shock:

That changes a lot, especially considering Anastasia's recent flipflops around whether Borgesi is legit or not. Would love to hear the Philly experts weigh in.
Thats exactly what I meant. The flip flopping on Borgesi raised a few eyebrows, and apparantly they know each other quite well.

Also, Anastasia really went down a notch as a journalist in my book when he took the money grab and wrote that bullshit Alite book.

Anastasia later confirmed Borgesi was a source btw, it's all in there good stuff.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by gohnjotti » Thu Jul 16, 2020 1:49 am

Chopper wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 pm Interesting how Natale testified that according to him, Borgesi fed information to George Anastasia when it served his interests.

Never heard that one before and it would explain a couple of things.
:shock:

That changes a lot, especially considering Anastasia's recent flipflops around whether Borgesi is legit or not. Would love to hear the Philly experts weigh in.

Re: Merlino Trial 2001 Articles

by Tony Monte » Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:21 pm

Good shit!!!

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