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Old 10-22-2014, 05:10 PM
 
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"New Jersey Charges 11 with Mob Loansharking Scheme" thoughts on the mob in NJ? Is it still big time, or dying out?

New Jersey Charges 11 With Mob Loansharking Scheme - ABC News
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Old 10-22-2014, 06:28 PM
 
Location: High Bridge, NJ
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"New Jersey Charges 11 with Mob Loansharking Scheme" thoughts on the mob in NJ? Is it still big time, or dying out?

New Jersey Charges 11 With Mob Loansharking Scheme - ABC News
It's not what it was before RICO, etc...but as long as people have an appetite for illegal loans, gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc...the mafia will exist in some form or another.
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Old 10-24-2014, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Purgatory
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What's wrong w the legal gambling and loans in NJ?
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Old 10-25-2014, 08:18 AM
 
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It's not what it was before RICO, etc...but as long as people have an appetite for illegal loans, gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc...the mafia will exist in some form or another.
Just like our Federal government, only with vowels at the end of their names.
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Old 10-29-2014, 12:38 PM
 
Location: South Florida
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"New Jersey Charges 11 with Mob Loansharking Scheme" thoughts on the mob in NJ? Is it still big time, or dying out?

New Jersey Charges 11 With Mob Loansharking Scheme - ABC News
Thanks for the thread gottaq. According to the most recent reports and arrests The five families in NYC, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno and Columbo, are stronger and better organized than they have been in 20+ years, while the other 5 remaining LCN families in Chicago, Boston, Jersey, Philly and Detroit have been declining for many years both in numbers and influence. The Decalvecante family in Jersey is a smaller operation with about 40-50 made guys and a couple hundred associates. As you can see from the article you posted some of the New York families operate in some parts of Jersey as does the Philly family though on a smaller scale. The families in New York have moved away from crimes of violence, especially killing, unless it is absolutely necessary and they are involved in semi legit rackets which draw much lower sentences if convicted. Here's a couple articles on what these guys are up to these days and their viability. Thanks again for the post.


Cosa Nostra News: US Attorney Says: Five Families "Still There"">


Merlino Packs Them In At Federal Hearing | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog


Cosa Nostra News: Genovese Family Remains King of the Volcano

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Old 10-29-2014, 03:03 PM
 
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These few must have done something bad - usually State government, unions and mafia live and work in perfect harmony in NJ.
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Old 10-30-2014, 01:41 PM
 
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Here's the latest on Joey Merlino

Merlino must return to prison for four months


By Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer

Posted: October 26, 2014


Former Philadelphia mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino's new gig as maitre d' and host of a Boca Raton, Fla., restaurant that bears his name will have to wait four months. That's the sentence a federal judge gave Merlino, 52, on Friday for violating terms of his supervised release on a 2001 racketeering conviction.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ruled that Merlino violated the terms of his release in a June 18 meeting at a Boca Raton cigar bar with John Ciancaglini, his former captain in the Philadelphia Mafia, and a codefendant convicted with him in the racketeering trial.


But Surrick denied the prosecution's request for what could have been more onerous punishment: an extended period of supervised release monitored by federal probation officers.
"By now, Mr. Merlino should know what needs to be done," Surrick said. "If he's going to get back in the activities that brought him where he is, he'll again be facing justice."
Whether Merlino has turned his back on his former life in the city's Cosa Nostra crime family is an open question.
Defense attorney Edwin Jacobs insisted that Merlino has and said there was no evidence otherwise.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Troyer said Merlino remained involved even while he was serving his three years of supervised release in Florida.
One fact is certain: Organized crime investigators are still looking at Merlino.
Testifying Friday, Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office Detective Richard Olson, a member of a regional FBI organized crime task force, said agents had been surveilling Merlino since at least August 2011, shortly after he was released from his 14-year prison sentence.
The judge would not permit Olson to be questioned about the subject of that investigation and Troyer said afterward that he could not comment.
Merlino apologized to Surrick for not telling his probation officer of the meeting with Ciancaglini at the newly opened Havana Nights Cigar Bar & Lounge in Boca Raton, an encounter that he termed accidental.
He said that at the time Merlino's wife, Deborah, and a daughter were planning to move to be with him in Boca Raton, but that his daughter did not want to relocate.
"I had a lot on my mind and [reporting the contact] just slipped my mind," Merlino told the judge.
Surrick gave Merlino 30 days to surrender to a federal prison to be designated.
Merlino declined to comment as he was led into the U.S. Marshals Service office to be processed.
Once released, Merlino will begin working at Merlino's, a restaurant named after him and featuring Italian recipes by his mother.
One of the eatery's prime investors, Boca Raton millionaire Stanley Stein, testified Friday that the restaurant will open Nov. 7 and that Merlino will be an employee, serving as maitre d' and host.
Stein, who said his parents were from South Philadelphia, said he did not meet Merlino until about two years ago in Florida and did not know about his past.
"He became like a son to me," Stein told Surrick.
Stein said that when he was diagnosed with cancer, Merlino paid for a priest to say Masses for his recovery.
"What I've observed here today just puzzles me," Stein said.
Questioned by Troyer, Stein acknowledged that in advance of a hearing this month and also for Friday's hearing, he flew Merlino from Florida in his private jet and put him up at the Four Seasons hotel in Center City.
Afterward, Stein declined to comment on Merlino's sentence but said it would have "no impact" on the restaurant's opening

http://articles.philly.com/2014-10-2...rvised-release
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