New Mob Talk Sitdown 7/9

[slimshady_007]

I personally dont buy the story that DiPietro got shot over the poker game incident. In this day and age whacking someone over an insult, while the bosses are on trial, just doesn’t sound right. Maybe the insult would call for a beating, but not death. Plus, how does the source know the WHOLE story? The story sounds made up tbh. Some may disagree but i think Nicodemo and whoever else tied to rob DiPietro and shit went bad. Just what i think happened.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Yeah I'm taking it all with a grain of salt. As usual the quotes from ScottBs "sources" sound made up. And how the hell does he know the exact words Merlino told Nicodemo when he OKed a murder? Only 2 people know what was said between them and neither of them is telling Scott. That is of course assuming (a major assumptiom at that) that said meeting even happened and is not simply a product of Scotts immagination.


Pogo

Yup, yup and yup.

[Stroccos]

yeah only if Grande flips we may get the details

[joeycigars]

I just find it hard to believe that Nicodemo was as stupid as he was. Thr robbery gone wrong theory could be true. Yet again it is philly. And the wiseguys thier aren’t the sharpest. Once the indictment comes out, im sure we’ll get the full story.

If you look at all the hits and misses in LCN not just Philly but Philly has some real classics ,there are a good percentage of comical errors , A plumber Joe Salerno and mob hangaround fingered Scarfo a boss no less in the Vincent Falcone hit huge mistake on this murder . There are guys on film and audio , guys keep the murder weapon , Bombs that dont go off , Guns with wrong ammo ,,,,, way to many to post , The NYC ones that stick out ,Michael Yannotti on the Curtis Sliwa attempt, The mafia cops and Casso wrong guy hit Nicholas Guido ,The bomb that was meant for Gotti, ,Roy DeMeo left his Capt , Anthony Gaggi at a Murder while on foot no get away plan after Gaggi was shot he was pinched , There is tons more, Its safe to say its not uncommon to fuck up a hit no matter what Family is involved, IMO Anthony Nicodemo just followed suit and he became the latest comical error, Or he take xanax bars ,

[Chucky]

I always figured Nicodemo and Grande were scoping out the area and DiPietro happened to be there when they did it, so they decided take him out then and there. They actually may have gotten away with it had they noticed the fucking mailman walking around; he's the one who called the cops and gave them the plate info

[Confederate]

Yeah I'm taking it all with a grain of salt. As usual the quotes from ScottBs "sources" sound made up. And how the hell does he know the exact words Merlino told Nicodemo when he OKed a murder? Only 2 people know what was said between them and neither of them is telling Scott. That is of course assuming (a major assumptiom at that) that said meeting even happened and is not simply a product of Scotts immagination.


Pogo

Also, I can never get past the stupid cliche's that Burnstein uses in his articles like saying " Philly Godfather Skinny Joe Merlino ". The minute I see this I stop reading.

[JohnnyS]

I always figured Nicodemo and Grande were scoping out the area and DiPietro happened to be there when they did it, so they decided take him out then and there. They actually may have gotten away with it had they noticed the fucking mailman walking around; he's the one who called the cops and gave them the plate info

Grande had a mask and gloves on him but maybe he he got his holidays mixed up and was ready to go trick or treating in Decemeber.

[JohnnyS]

Why are you guy's so surprised that a dumb hit went down in Philly?


Look at the Johnny Gongs hit. The killers totally missed the neighbors security camera which cought three guys going into the house when he was killed. It was just their pure dumb luck that the footage quality was bad enough that it couldn't make out their faces.


Or how about the hit on Mikey Chang and Merlino. Veasey and Colletti did the drive by shooting with a car that Colletti had rented in his own name. Then when they torched the car Veasey stuck his hand in to grab some loose change and burned his entire hand. Speaking of Veasey when Frank Martines and Al Pagano tried to kill him they took out some powder from the bullets so they wouldn't make as much noise. Turns out the brain surgeons took out too much powder so the bullets didn't kill him even after shoting him twice in the head. Veasey was of course able to fight them off and escape.


Or how about when the Stanfa guys tried to kill Biagio Adornetto. The idiot used the wrong shotgun shells in the gun so it didn't go off when they shot at him and Adornetto managed to escape.


Or go back further to the Salvy Testa hit. The guy's dumping the body went through a toll both without any change. So they were stuck in the toll booth with a body in the van while someone had to go get change.


Or the John Calabrese hit back in 1981. The shooters (Tommy DelGiorno and Faffy Iannarella) were supposed to wear ski masks but they brought along kids masks which didn't fit them. So they had to do the shooting out on the street without wearing any masks.


I mean this is not the Godfather we are talking about it.


Pogo

Great post Pogo. People should probably stop reading into it so much. It was a badly planned hit that is clear to see and Nicodemo fucked up badly but it's not unusual for this sort of stuff to happen in Philly especially. I honestly don't think there's anymore to it, DiPietro was an informant and got taken out.