Skinny Joey

[Brovelli]

Pogo hasn’t even given an opinion, fuck is he getting called things for

[ImaginaryRisk]

Joey doesn't care about what New York thinks. He's the one who told the Luccheses he would send them back to New York in body bags. He's not shelved or kicked out. He's retired or in some sort of advisor position of whatever is left in Philly (basically nothing). What's New York going to do to him? Just all made up nonsense.

This is as close to the situation as logically we can conclude with what we know.

Who SHELVES a boss?
Mannino sends a msg "youre out Ive decided to put Georgie in"
Anyone HONESTLY believe that?
How does Mannino SHELVE Joey?
Mannino "Joey youre out"
Joey "Ha! Sure pal, youre out, go fuck yourself"
If anyone believes this, that a boss can shelve another boss (sure, ok), then Mannino can shelve Barney. Anyone believe that?

Why hasnt Mannino shelved Barney come to think of it, all his carry-on with the ex-partner of Mancuso and Lubrano.
Why hasnt Mancuso shelved Barney??

See how fucking stupid this is?


Or what Ligambi shelves him, Georgie? Anyone honestly thinks they made a move against Joey?
This isnt the Navy movie with Denzel and Hackman where the 2nd in command can overthrow the Captain because he disagrees.

Joey may or may not be the boss. But sure as shit no-one shelved him.

Or MAYBE this is a bullshit ploy to confuse LE or a potential trial defense. Gee, I wonder.

100% agree with you.

Georgie if he got the message to shelve him wouldn't even deliver the message to Joey because he wouldn't go along with it. And the message if it was sent "your on the shelf" (not going to happen) to Joey it's via at least 3 people and told to Joey, he's not talking to anyone directly. Joey doesn't have any direct contact with anyone on any charts of the Philly "mafia". He's still got the status of being "made" nobody is taking that away from him or putting him on the shelf.

If they wanted to put him on the shelf that would have happened years ago when he was guzzling bookies in New York, and not following suggestions from New York by making guys from Jersey and having Bobby who found god in Boston operating for him, the list goes on of stuff he did which maybe he shouldn't have.

This putting Joey on the "shelf" talk is all nonsense.

[ShotgunTheRifle]

Joey doesn't need to care what NYC thinks to be put on the shelf. If NYC calls Borgesi and says this is the deal, "You guys take care of this issue or were not recognizing anyone." Philly made men need to make the decision on what they are going to do. I wouldn't be surprised if they got with Joey and Joey said "Yea, ill step aside." I doubt Borgesi or Ligambi just told him he was done. But you also don't know. Its been reported by people around them that no one beside Marty Angelina is even associating with Joey at this point. Ligambi spent a long time rebuilding this family, would he let it go because this guy is taking selfie in a pool in Vegas with lil snuff on the internet? Also, there was big PAR funding scam in Old City Philadelphia by Gambino members worth millions of dollars, and as far as we know Philly didn't get anything from it. Wouldn't be surprised if at that point Gambino's already weren't recognizing them.

[johnny_scootch]

The NY and Philly guys have mutual respect. They’d never just send a message that Joey was shelved.

Some high ranking NY guys got together and formed a consensus they also choose someone amongst them to meet with the Philly guys to tell them what they thought about the situation and the different scenarios that could play out. From there they let the Philly guys handle their own, if Joey got demoted and/or shelved it was his own guys who did it to him (with support from NY).

[TommyGambino]

What's so hard to believe about this? A boss was on youtube for god sake, this was the most likely conclusion people losing their minds like they actually know Merlino. 'No way Joey can be shelved' plastered all over the internet . Bizarre behaviour

[Brovelli]

What's so hard to believe about this? A boss was on youtube for god sake, this was the most likely conclusion people losing their minds like they actually know Merlino. 'No way Joey can be shelved' plastered all over the internet . Bizarre behaviour

I think there’s a part of it that believes he’s that powerful and second big time fan boy fever.

And it is entirely possible he’s not shelved, even that he’s still boss all of which I deem unlikely but the talk in absolutes is ridiculous. We sometimes have hours of taped conversations from 50 years ago and can’t talk in certainty on topics lol

[furiofromnaples]

What's so hard to believe about this? A boss was on youtube for god sake, this was the most likely conclusion people losing their minds like they actually know Merlino. 'No way Joey can be shelved' plastered all over the internet . Bizarre behaviour

I think there’s a part of it that believes he’s that powerful and second big time fan boy fever.

And it is entirely possible he’s not shelved, even that he’s still boss all of which I deem unlikely but the talk in absolutes is ridiculous. We sometimes have hours of taped conversations from 50 years ago and can’t talk in certainty on topics lol

We must wait until another philly wiseguy flips to have more infos on what is happening in philly mob.

[Brovelli]

Probably more likely we get someone flip in New York who talks about it. Pennisi has said he’s been meeting with a friend who is still a made guy so he should have some info on it if he’s ever willing to share it

[Cheech]

[furiofromnaples]

Merlino is like Carmine Persico,he will be the boss until the end.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Cheech you need to charge your phone.

[Aunt+Baby]

Merlino is like Carmine Persico,he will be the boss until the end.

“Boss” of what? Philadelphia is a crew of the Genovese family. The only viable LCN families in the US left are Genovese, Gambinos, Chicago, maybe the Lucchese. The bonnanos and the Colombos sound like glorified street gangs at this point (luccheses as well to some extent). Philadelphia is a corner store operation. So what is this weird little clown the “boss” of exactly?

[Aunt+Baby]

Merlino is like Carmine Persico,he will be the boss until the end.

“Boss” of what? Philadelphia is a crew of the Genovese family. The only viable LCN families in the US left are Genovese, Gambinos, Chicago, maybe the Lucchese. The bonnanos and the Colombos sound like glorified street gangs at this point (luccheses as well to some extent). Philadelphia is a corner store operation. So what is this weird little clown the “boss” of exactly?

[furiofromnaples]

Merlino is like Carmine Persico,he will be the boss until the end.

“Boss” of what? Philadelphia is a crew of the Genovese family. The only viable LCN families in the US left are Genovese, Gambinos, Chicago, maybe the Lucchese. The bonnanos and the Colombos sound like glorified street gangs at this point (luccheses as well to some extent). Philadelphia is a corner store operation. So what is this weird little clown the “boss” of exactly?

That are bullshits! All the 5 families are active and out NY the only big and active family is the Philly familiy while the Outfit have less active members (look the chart section). Merlino fought against a boss and survived to many attempts to whack him and made 15 years in prison so that is more respect the average mobster.
Hebis not a clown because in this time the mob is not the same of 30 years ago.

[Aunt+Baby]

Merlino is like Carmine Persico,he will be the boss until the end.

“Boss” of what? Philadelphia is a crew of the Genovese family. The only viable LCN families in the US left are Genovese, Gambinos, Chicago, maybe the Lucchese. The bonnanos and the Colombos sound like glorified street gangs at this point (luccheses as well to some extent). Philadelphia is a corner store operation. So what is this weird little clown the “boss” of exactly?

That are bullshits! All the 5 families are active and out NY the only big and active family is the Philly familiy while the Outfit have less active members. Merlino fought against a boss and survived to many attempts to whack him and made 15 years in prison so that is more respect the average mobster.
Hebis not a clown because in this time the mob is not the same of 30 years ago.

You must be related to this Merlino goof or something. He had his “front” boss rat on him. That’s how much respect he holds. Philly had more rats than a manhattan sewer system. That family gets no respect. As someone else mentioned above, the Gambinos have operations there, totally separate from the Philadelphia “family”. They bow down to NYC

Chicago has way more juice & soldiers than Philly. The Jessica Nesbitt brothel indictment alone shows that they still have enough manpower and juice to shakedown a massive brothel operation that was generating millions, and anyone who read the fine print in the Cassano-Galione indictment can obviously see that Chicago are very active. They have more going on than the Colombos, that is for sure, and probably more than the luccheses as well. The bonnanos are a glorified ghetto street gang operation at this point. They got punked out by some bikers at that funeral or whatever it was, and they had the entire ruling panel flip, for fucks sake.

The difference between Chicago and the rest of the east coast groups is Chicago guys aren’t on tape blabbing incessantly about ‘the Life’. They still talk in heavy code and shun the media. Philadelphia has their alleged boss doing some lame cringe podcast, I mean come on haha. In that Cassano-Galione case, you couldn’t get them one single time outright mentioning organized crime or mafia or outfit on wiretap. Everything was extremely heavily coded, like in the old days

As for Merlino, he’s a goof. Watch ten minutes of his dog shit podcast, if you can stomach it. If this was the 80s he’d be dead ten times over by now