The Philadelphia crime family , (pronounced [fila'd? Lfja] ) is also known as Philadelphia Mafia , Philly Mob/Mafia , or Philadelphia-South Jersey Mafia , is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed and based in South Philadelphia, criminal organizations primarily operate in various regions and neighborhoods in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area (Delaware Valley) and New Jersey, especially South Jersey. This family is notorious for its violence, mainly because of alternating ferocious bosses and some mass wars.
As the crime family of Bruno , under twenty years of rule of boss Angelo Bruno (1959-1980) the family enjoyed an era of peace and prosperity Bruno became known for his cool-headed and deliberate approach to handling business disputes and preferring rackets such as bookmaking, extortion of labor, and moneylenders. An elaborate dispute involving disgruntled subordinates and territorial claims by the New York Genovese crime family led to the killing of Bruno in 1980. The killings sparked an internal war to rein in the Philadelphia family, leading to a gradual decline in family power and increased mass violence. in Philadelphia.
The death of Bruno led to an internal war to control the family of evil. Bruno was soon replaced by his loyal friend, Philip "The Chicken Man" Testa; However, within one year of Bruno's murder, Testa was also murdered, killed in a nail bomb explosion in 1981. When dust disappeared from Bruno's death, Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo became the boss of a criminal family. During the Scarfo government, the family was known as the Scarfo crime family . The 10 year reign of Scarfo sees the family grow in power, but also becomes very dysfunctional. Unlike Bruno, Scarfo is famous for her short temperament and the tendency to violence. Scarfo increasingly involved families in the narcotics trade and demanded that all criminals pay street taxes to operate in its territory. Scarfo also did not hesitate to order the people who were killed because of a moderate dispute. The dramatic rise in violence attracted increasing attention from the FBI, the Pennsylvania State Police and the New Jersey State Police. Increased violence and prosecution of law enforcement also convince some mafia to cooperate with government to avoid death or imprisonment. Scarfo's fall came in 1988 when he and most of his main allies were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms.
Scarfo's arrest eventually led to another internal mafia war. With the support of Gambino's crime family in New York, John Stanfa was appointed the Philadelphia family boss in 1991. However, the young mafia faction led by Joey Merlino denied Stanfa's rise, and in 1992 another war in the family was under way.. The war ended in 1994 when Stanfa and most of his supporters were captured by the FBI. Merlino then took control of the family and was alleged to have run families of varying degrees ever since. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Merlino is very productive and never camera-shy, and is often seen in local social events. Undoubtedly, the Philadelphia family has been weakened over the last thirty years due to violence, government diversion, and law enforcement actions after the passing of the RICO Act. Nevertheless, the family still remains one of the most active Mafia groups in the country.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, some Italian and Italian-American gang of Philadelphia and Italian immigrants joined forces to form what would eventually become the Philadelphia crime family. Salvatore Sabella is the first leader of the group that will bear his name. They busied themselves with trade, extortion, loan loans, and illegal gambling, and it was during the Banning era that Sabella and her crew were recognized as members of the larger Sicilian crime syndicate from New York and Chicago. Sabella retired in late 1931.
John Avena and Joe Dovi
After Sabella retired, her two lieutenants, John Avena and Giuseppe Dovi, started a five-year war to control the family. Avena was assassinated by members of his own faction on August 17, 1936, and Joseph "Joe Bruno" Dovi became the Philadelphia family boss.
Dovi has good connections with Chicago Outfit and Five Families of New York, and expanded operations to Atlantic City, South Philadelphia, and parts of South Jersey. Narcotics, illegal gambling, borrowing loans, and extortion activities provide family income, and relationships with evolved families of Genovese and Gambino grew throughout the 1930s and early 1940s.
On October 22, 1946, Dovi died of natural causes at a New York City hospital, and Joseph "Joe" Ida was appointed by the Commission to run the Philadelphia family and his racket.
Influenced by Vito Genovese
Joseph "Joe" Ida ran the family throughout the 1940s and early 1950s. Ida and the Philadelphia organization were heavily influenced by the bosses of the Five Families, especially the Genovese crime families, who attempted to control the two families as Vito Genovese, underboss of the criminal family of Genovese, took charge in 1956 after the shooting of former boss Frank Costello, who later retired because sick. As the Philadelphia family gains more power in Atlantic City and South Jersey, they are seen as a big faction of the Genovese crime family. Ida and his invisible Dominich Olivetto were present during the 1957 Apalachin Convention with about 100 other mafia tops. Around this time, Philadelphia was separated from the criminal family of Genovese, and was given place at the national Mafia Agency, the Commission. The meeting was raided by US law enforcement, and more than 60 mafioso were arrested and charged on relations with organized crime members. Ida called in the indictment and fled to Sicily shortly after the meeting, leaving Antonio "Mr Migs" Pollina as the boss acting in Ida's absence.
Angelo Bruno
After Ida retired in 1959, and Pollina was demoted, Angelo Bruno was appointed by the Commission to run the Philadelphia family. Bruno, Philadelphia's first boss with a seat in the Commission, is a close ally of Carlo Gambino, establishing his position as leader of the Philadelphia Mafia. Bruno uses his contacts and his own business mind to maintain respect and power among other Mafia bosses in the country. He expanded his profits and family operations in Atlantic City, now known as the Philadelphia family area. Bruno himself avoided media scrutiny and law enforcement and prevented violence. He spent almost three years in jail for refusing to testify at a 1970 hearing on organized crime in the state of New Jersey. After his release, he spent some time in Italy before returning to the United States in 1977.
Bruno has a reputation for finding a peaceful solution to family problems, not violence. Bruno oversees the family gambling syndicate and prefers more traditional operations such as labor extortion, loan sharking, game numbers, and infiltrate into legitimate businesses. Since the late 1960s, the Philadelphia criminal family used violence and intimidation to control various unions in the food and service industries such as the 54 Locales from Hotel Employees and Restaurant Union Employees. Criminal families loot local health and welfare funds and use their controls to extort money from bars and restaurants. Family members who are owned or have a controlling interest in many restaurants, bars and social clubs throughout the Philadelphia/Jersey area south. During the early 1960s, the Philadelphia family was officially recognized as Bruno's family.
Bruno runs a fairly simple operation. He focuses on low-risk crimes and he gives his subordinates autonomy as long as he receives a share of the profits. He is against his people involved in narcotics trafficking for fear of long prison sentences they can bring. Many of his men disagreed with this decision, seeing the huge profits that could be made. Some mobsters, such as Harry Riccobene and Raymond Martorano, run a drug trafficking operation behind Bruno's back. His men were increasingly angry that Bruno received money from John Gambino to let Gambino's crime family sell heroin in southern New Jersey. Bruno also faces pressure from Five Families to let them have a part of the action in Atlantic City, which has risen from behind to the gambling scene. However, the old Mafia rules do not allow other families to do business in the Atlantic City unless Bruno invites them - and Bruno is unwilling to do so.
On October 15, 1976, Carlo Gambino died of a heart attack. With Gambino gone, Bruno lost his most important ally in the underworld. Many of Bruno's subordinates felt that they were losing money because of the old ways and the old ways of Bruno. His adviser Antonio Caponigro approached Genovese family boss Frank Tieri to seek permission from the Commission to kill Bruno and take over the family of the perpetrators. Tieri, sensing the opportunity to take a gambling operation in northern Caponigro New Jersey, lied to Caponigro and told him that he had the Commission's backing. On 21 March 1980, Bruno was shot in the back of his head while in his car by a gunman working for Caponigro. That April, Caponigro visits New York City on the assumption that he will be confirmed as the boss. Instead, he was tortured and killed for killing members of the Commission without permission. Co-conspirators Caponigro, Frank Sindone and John Simone, were also murdered in 1980.
"Little Nicky" Scarfo
His successor Bruno, her husband, Philip Testa lasted less than a year before he was killed by a nail bomb on March 15, 1981. Testa's murder was regulated by Frank Narducci in another attempt to control the family. After that, Peter Casella and Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, each undeboss and consigliere Testa, both vying to take over the family. Scarfo is close to the consigliere of the Genoese Louis family of "Bobby" Manna and approached the Genovese hierarchy with suspicion that Narducci was organizing Testa's murder. The Genovese family arranges meetings with Scarfo and Casella, where Casella admits that Narducci killed Testa so they can take over the family. Casella was forced to retire in Florida and Scarfo took over the family. Narducci was killed by Testa's son Salvatore and the others were also killed. Scarfo is a criminal crime fighter Bruno who operates in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The city witnessed an economic boom when enacted measures that allowed casino gambling in the late 1970s. Scarfo is able to expand its power base by infiltrating into the expansion of the construction and service industry in Atlantic City. In return for their support for him as boss, Scarfo let the Commission operate in Atlantic City under its wisdom. Scarfo named Salvatore "Chuckie" Merlino as his underboss and Frank Monte as his consigliere. Scarfo lowers Bruno's mafia troops and replaces them with Testa, Phil Leonetti, Lawrence "Yogi" Merlino and Joseph "Chickie" Ciancaglini, Sr.
The last person standing on the path of Scarfo is highly respected, the old mafia of Harry Riccobene. Riccobene believes Scarfo is a boss who is not greedy and greedy and he refuses to pay tribute to Scarfo. While Bruno never asked Riccobene for a regular part of his ill-gotten gains, Scarfo demanded a distinctive "kick up" award. With Scarfo on the streets serving a short prison term in Texas, the "Riccobene War" occurred between 1982 and 1984. The Scarfo faction was capable of killing three Riccobenes. Riccobene's squad was able to kill the Scarfo counselor, Frank Monte, while Riccobene himself survived two attempts in his life. In 1984, two gunmen in Monte's murder, along with Riccobene's brother, were arrested and agreed to cooperate with the authorities. They testified in court that Riccobene ordered the killing of Monte. Riccobene was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, ending the war.
When Scarfo became a Boss, he wanted to unite organized crime in the area and dream of running a subtle criminal empire. He immediately installed a "street tax" on a Philadelphia/Jersey southern criminal. Although criminals who extort finances financially are common Mafia monsters, it is a rather alien practice in Philadelphia. Enforced by soldiers and family colleagues, taxes are paid by criminals working independently of the Mafia. Criminals like drug dealers, betting makers, loan sharks, pimps, and number runners operating in an area that Scarfo himself is forced to pay their street taxes every week. Those who refuse to pay taxes are usually killed. Moneylenders, drug dealers, and pawn shop owner John Calabrese were killed by Joseph Ciancaglini, Sr., Tommy DelGiorno, Frank Iannarella, and Pat Spirito. Frankie "Flowers" D'Alfonso was brutally beaten by Salvatore Testa and Joey Pungitore for refusing to pay street taxes. He was later assassinated in 1985.
The biggest chaos of the crime family is the control of the union. During the reign of Bruno and Scarfo, the Philadelphia criminal family maintained certain levels of influence over Local Roof Union 30, Local Iron Working Union 405, Local Workers Union 332 and Timsters Workers Union 107, 158, 331 and 837. Family criminals used this influence to extort business , stealing from the union treasury and receiving salary and benefits for little or no work. Scarfo also makes criminal families involved in the shabu-shabu trade, which is the drug of choice in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area. Initially, the family extorted money from local merchants. When the Greek-American mafia boss Chelsais Bouras began fighting for methamphetamine trade in Philadelphia and refused to pay the Scarfo road tax, Scarfo killed him. Bouras was having dinner with his girlfriend, friends and Scarfo soldiers Raymond Martorano when the assassination team attacked and killed him and his girlfriend. The family of crimes then began to control the methane trade in the area by providing illegal P2P (main raw material) to the met producers. By controlling the supply of P2P the Philadelphia criminal family is generally able to control methamphetamine trade in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area. Some criminals borrow money from Mafia members to finance meth operations (and benefit from working with the Mafia instead of being blackmailed by them). Criminal families are also involved in the trafficking of cocaine and marijuana.
Scarfo became famous for its cruel paranoid nature. Scarfo demanded full fidelity to him and ordered those killed because of disrespectful signs, disobedience or resistance. Explained by a former criminal family member:
[i] If you have a good grace with him, he loves you and you love him. Do you understand? But you never know from one day to the next. He lights everybody, and he does not draw lines when he has to kill. Most Mob bosses do not like it. Mob basically runs the same thing in every city, but our "family" is unusual because it is a very paranoid family because we all fear each other and fear Scarfo. He holds a grudge. If you have not greeted him 20 years ago, he never forgets. He often said, "I'm like a turtle, I got there." You know, we are best friends. He believes in me, and I trust him. But he is very, very paranoid. He betrays himself. His own niece changed.
Soon after being promoted to boss, the number of murders associated with organized crime increased in the 1980s. Philadelphia mafia change government witness Nicholas Caramandi describes Scarfo's crude nature in an interview in 2001: "Scarfo is a cowboy, he does not want a man who is taken at home and shoots easily behind his head He wants it outside, in the afternoon day, with millions of people around, restaurants, funeral parlors, everywhere, then written in newspapers, and that scares people.She likes those cowboy stuff. "
Scarfo recently installed Pasquale member "Pat the Cat" whom Spirito killed in 1983. During the Riccobene War, Spirito exchanged sides and aligned himself with Scarfo, but was killed for refusing a contract to murder Riccobene's brother. On September 14, 1984, Scarfo's loyalist Salvatore Testa was murdered. Despite serving faithfully under Scarfo and committing several murders in his name, Scarfo granted Salvatore Merlino underboss permission to kill Testa for breaking his engagement to Merlino's daughter. After Merlino's drinking problem got out of hand, Scarfo dropped him into a soldier and promoted his nephew, Phil Leonetti as his new underboss.
In November 1988, Scarfo and 16 of his men were convicted of extortion, 10 murders, five attempted murders, extortion, gambling and narcotics trafficking. Together with Scarfo, underboss Philip Leonetti, three of the four capos or family captains, Joseph Ciancaglini, Francis Iannarella Jr. and Saint Idone, and soldiers like Albert Pontani, Salvatore Merlino and Charles Iannece were arrested. Prosecution reinforced by Mafia members Tommy DelGiorno and Nicholas "Nicky Crow" Caramandi agreed to cooperate with law enforcement and testify in court for the government to avoid long jail sentences and Scarfo's ruthless regime. 15 of the defendants received prison sentences ranging from 30 to 55 years. In 1989, six members, including Scrafo and two others in previous indictments, were found guilty of the murder of Frank D'Alfanso. Successful investigations and prosecutions cut down some of the most lucrative criminal operations of criminal families. Law enforcement greatly paralyzes the Mafia's influence on local unions, the biggest money-makers of the local masses. Police also dismissed a number of illegal sports betting operations run by spiders who took bets worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Scarfo's underboss and nephew Phil Leonetti were the next defectors who agreed to cooperate with the FBI after being sentenced to 45 years in prison. More mafias will then be sentenced to long prisons for crimes such as extortion, drug trafficking and murder. This caused the number of Mafia members in the family to wane in the 1990s, with fewer new people available to replace all those convicted of serious crimes. In 1990, 21 members were jailed, 11 under the indictment and six turned to government witnesses. The Pennsylvania Crimes Commission reports that there are only 24 members who are free and face no criminal charges.
Second Philadelphia Mafia War
With all the Scarfo loyalists serving lengthy prison sentences, it became clear that Scarfo would not be able to keep the family's control from prison longer. To avoid a total power vacuum in the Philadelphia Mafia, the Sicilian-born mafia, John Stanfa helped run the family to Scarfo. With support and support from the influential Gambino family of criminals in New York, Stanfa was named the boss of the Philadelphia criminal family in 1991. To many older Mafia members, and especially to the families of New York crime, Stanfa has substantial mafia credentials.. He was born in Sicily to the Sicilian Mafia family, he is an old friend of Gambino boss Carlo Gambino, and he has served as a guard and driver for the respected Angelo Bruno from the 1960s. However, Stanfa is poorly respected in Philadelphia, especially among the new breed of street mobster of young Philadelphia. The New York Mafia Trouble in Philadelphia Mafia affairs was not well received by many of these mobs, who saw Stanfa as an outsider who did not work in the organization for being imprisoned during the Scarfo era. Many of these young mafia, born and raised on the streets of Philadelphia, are the next generation of lieutenants and captivated Scarfo capos. Extremely disappointed to have been ignored by the New Yorkers who intervened and dismissed by many older and more traditional Philadelphia mobsters, a new generation of mafias felt that it was their turn to run a crime family. This young, cruel, and overly ambitious group of men is led by Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, the son of former underboss Salvatore Merlino.
While serving a joint prison term in 1990, Merlino met with Ralph Natale. Natale is an old mafia who used to be friends with the late Angelo Bruno's superior. In prison with Natale that Merlino first discussed taking over the Philadelphia family. The plan is for Merlino to start a war to control the family of evil, then have Natale named the boss when he is released with the support of the evil family of crime. When Merlino was released from prison, he recruited his best friend Michael Ciancaglini and his childhood friends into the plan. Stanfa was aware of the divisions within his family and sought a peaceful solution. He named his brother Michael, Joseph, Jr., as his new underboss. Stanfa hopes this will calm the Merlino faction and bring them under its banner. However, tensions escalated and in 1992 another war to control the Philadelphia criminal family was under way. Merlino loyalists shot and paralyzed Joseph Ciancaglini, Jr. while the Stanfa faction killed Michael Ciancaglini. They continued to attack each other for months, including the survival of the surviving Stanfa freeway and several unsuccessful attempts at Merlino's life. The Stanfa faction still strengthens control over the crime family and recruits many outside assassins to fight. The Merlino/Natale faction is much smaller, a tight group, but just as cruel. They have allies in other Philadelphia criminal organizations and convince some members of the Philadelphia criminal family to swap sides.
On March 17, 1994, Stanfa and 23 of his men were arrested on charges of extortion. This is the second major indictment on crime families in seven years. The Federal case is the biggest prosecution of organized crime groups in Philadelphia's history. The second big charge against the crime family is yet another strong case for prosecution. Key evidence is the two years of conversation Stanfa recorded with the mafia in the attorney's office and his doctor's office. The privilege of lawyer-client and the confidentiality of a physician who believes to protect him, Stanfa openly talks about an important Mafia business with his men. However, the FBI can get a warrant for installing secret listening devices in both offices once they know that they are used to help criminal conspiracy. The secretly recorded conversations involve Stanfa and his people from many criminal acts. The star witness at the trial was John Veasey, who was recruited by Stanfa to fight in the war against Merlino and was eventually inducted into the family. Prior to this, Veasey had no connection with the Mafia or organized crime. The three other Stanfa male family members, Philip Coletti, and Sicilian Rosario Bellocchi and Biagio Adornetto also agreed to cooperate with the government after their arrest.
Stanfa was sentenced to life imprisonment, while most of the other defendants were each sentenced to dozens of years in 1995. Early that year, Natale was released from prison. With most Stanfa supporters sentenced and locked down in 1995, Natale and Merlino seized control of the Philadelphia criminal family. Natale was named the boss of the Philadelphia criminal family, Merlino named underboss and Ronald "Ronnie" Turchi became consigliere.
Merlino takes over
Stanfa's confidence ends a 15-year period that saw families crumble after suffering two killing bosses, two internal wars, two federal crackdowns on family and nonstop violence. While Natale gets support from the Genovese family, he is unfamiliar with the current criminal scene in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area due to a 15-year prison sentence. Merlino is accused of carrying out most of the family's day-to-day evil activities. However, it soon became clear that Merlino held more power in the Philadelphia Mafia than Natale. In fact, Merlino and his allies decided to let Natale become the boss in the hope of attracting law enforcement from themselves and transferring it to Natale. While Merlino outwardly positioned himself as an "underboss", Ralph Natale, a newcomer to the Philly world, will be a new focus in law enforcement.
While Natale runs the family, Merlino and his young allies maintain control on the road, collect extortion payments and take advantage of Natale's rackets and schemes. Merlino is also the principal link of evil families to many other criminal groups in Philadelphia including Pagan Motorcycle Club and Junior Black Mafia. Merlino is only 32 years old, young age for every Mafia member, let alone a leader of the Mafia family. Merlino and his allies are all young and inexperienced in running such a large criminal organization. They are also flashy, rude, and fond of the limelight. Merlino is often seen by reporters and cameramen on the streets of South Philadelphia followed by a large group. Merlino gives a lot of attention from the press and law enforcement. The criminal family itself is unstable, with things poorly managed by Merlino crew whose cruel reputation is used to keep things organized. Merlino's arrogance and aggression put out many criminals from working with criminal families. Merlino's colleagues are also involved in drug deals in Philadelphia and Boston while overseeing the gambling of criminal families, loan sharks, stolen goods, and extortion rackets.
When Natale was arrested in 1998, he agreed to become a government witness and cooperate with the FBI in exchange for a minor punishment and entry into the Federal Witness Protection Program. Natale had enough Merlino to belittle him and did not want to spend the rest of his life in jail. Between 1999 and 2001, Merlino, along with his underboss Stephen Mazzone, his consigliere George Borgesi, Martin Angelina, John Ciancaglini and others were arrested and tried for extortion, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, murder and attempted murder. Natale testified on behalf of the government, detailing the crimes committed by the Merlino crew. Despite strong prosecution cases, the defendants defeated all allegations of murder related. Merlino was also freed from drug trafficking allegations. However, they were convicted of extortion charges linked to Merlino and Borgesi getting the longest jail sentence in 14 years each.
Ligambi Awakening
In 1997, Joseph Ligambi was released from prison after he successfully appealed his conviction and was released during the re-trial. After 10 years in prison, Ligambi returned to a much different Mafia family who saw two cruel regime changes and families under the control of a group of young mafias. Ligambi, who was Uncle Borgesi, was a Scarfo-era soldier when he was imprisoned in 1987 and also mentored by Merlin's father Salvatore. After his release, Ligambi soon returned to work for the crime family. He is highly respected among his friends for staying strong when sentenced to life imprisonment rather than betraying his criminal family to the authorities to escape from prison. When Merlino and the company were arrested, Merlino named Ligambi acted as the family boss. Ligambi continued to act as a boss after their belief in extortion of related crimes in 2001.
Ligambi stabilized the family when he took over, retained membership and restored relations with the New York family. Ligambi is smart and unlike previous leaders, has a very low profile and tends not to use violence to resolve disputes. Ligambi creates a close group around the new family leadership, rarely doing business without going through intermediaries, thus isolating itself from law enforcement supervision. His inner circle included the old Philadelphia mafia, Joseph "Mousie" Massimino, Gateon Lucibello, and Anthony Staino. When the Merlino faction leaders were released from prison in the 2000s (decades), they all fell in line with Ligambi. With many people agreeing with Ligambi's way of doing things, law enforcers believe that he has taken over the family permanently. However, the FBI will later find out that Merlino retains the control of the criminal family while in prison.
Ligambi was left to deal with the damage that Joey Merlino did to family relationships with illegal bettingmakers, who refused to do business with the Philadelphia criminal family because Merlino used to make big bets, then never paid when he lost. In the mid-2000s, the family consisted of about 50 members, half of whom were confined, in addition to nearly 100 colleagues. During Ligambi's tenure, about a dozen men were released from prison, filling in rank. Many of these people are young players who are victims of an unstable family history and are now middle-aged. He named Anthony Staino, his closest and most loyal partner, as his underboss. Under Ligambi's direction, the family was able to control some of the business of poker gambling video machines in the Philadelphia area. In 2007, 23 people including four men connected to the Philadelphia criminal family were accused of running an illegal sports betting operation out of the poker room at Borgata Casino in Atlantic City. The operation was accused of taking $ 60 million in bets in a 20-month period. Most of those involved pleaded guilty and received sentences ranging from probation to five years.
Merlino was released from prison on March 15, 2011, and underwent three years of parole in Florida. In May 2011, Ligambi and 14 other members and associates of the criminal family were charged by the FBI over extortion charges related to illegal gambling operations, video poker gambling machines and loan sharks. Seven of those indicted pleaded guilty to lower charges. One witnessed the government and seven people on trial in October 2012. The defendants were released with 45 counts and found guilty of five counts, and 11 indictments have not yet been decided (depending on the jury). Joseph Licata was released from the only indictment and Staino, facing a re-trial on charges he did not punish, took consent for a lesser sentence. Ligambi and Borgesi beat all remaining charges against them in a retrial and released in January 2014.
Current status
Merlino continues to serve as the evil family boss. He has been running things based on proxy since he was released, delegating most of the tasks since 2011 to Ligambi, Steven Mazzone and John Ciancaglini. In 2016, it was reported that some members were involved in booming construction and home rehabilitation industry in Philadelphia. On 4 August 2016, Merlino was arrested on extortion charges, overseeing illegal gambling business and insurance fraud. On August 12, Merlino was released with a $ 5 million bond. The jury failed to reach the verdict and the cancellation of the trial was declared in February 2018.
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