It's like he had a PTSD attack, lol.

For context, Joey Merlino, an honest cheesesteak shop franchise owner who was never, ever involved with organized crime, apparently has a problem with people tied to organized crime coming into his shop and not paying for their cheesesteaks.

This was one of those sit-downs with one of his ex-associates, Ralphie Hat. This wasn't Ralphie Hat's first time not paying for his cheesesteaks, he had already been warned once. But the old-timer who had worked directly under Joey's father, the underboss of the Philly mob, Chuckie, had another trick up his sleeve.

This time, when he ordered, he'd place the order under someone else's name, then just come in and pick it up without paying. His racket almost worked, but someone from the local bodega ratted him out to Joey.

I'm assuming that Ronnie was like "we're not doing that - what the hell is wrong with you?".

I wonder if it's owned by some multinational conglomerate now? Like Los Pollos Hermanos was.

Did anyone else see that?

He said that he'd been fed false information by someone he now knows is not a good guy. He didn't say what he was actually apologising for though. He's claimed a bunch of stuff about Nadu, so it could be any, or all, or none of these.

e.g.

- Jeff had a paranoid crashout and thought Joey Merlino was trying to kill him, so he went running to the feds.

- Jeff was getting paid by the Geneovse to lie and discredit Dom

- Jeff was getting paid by Joey Merlino to act as his PR front and damage control guy

- Jeff got banned from all Genovese-owned clubs in Jersey by Hippy Zanfardino

He followed that up by saying that he's willing to let bygones be bygones and forgive Jeff for Jeff's lies about him.

I’ve always been extremely interested in the Philly/South Jersey mob. Specifically the Scarfo years. Recently a good friend of mine moved slightly below Vineland and I’ve been making visits monthly ever since. Coming from North Jersey it feels like an entirely different state. If anyone has any info on mobsters who lived or operated in that area during the 80s/90s or even presently, I’d greatly appreciate it. Always looking for solid OC reading material! Keep up the good content everyone 👍🏻👍🏻

I’ll admit that Boardwalk Empire had its weaker moments in its later seasons, but I still found the final season thoroughly enjoyable despite its rushed pacing. Much of this can be attributed to HBO shifting its focus and resources toward Game of Thrones as it exploded in popularity, leaving Boardwalk Empire with fewer opportunities to fully develop its concluding chapters. Even so, the show’s portrayal of the fictional downfalls of Nucky Thompson, Chalky White, Dr. Valentin Narcisse, and others serves as a powerful reflection of a darker historical transition: the decline of the old guard and the rise of the Young Turk faction of American mafiosi, led by figures such as Salvatore “Charlie Lucky” Lucania and Meyer “The Little Man” Lansky, who emerged as dominant forces after the conclusion of the Castellammarese War and the creation of The Commission.

He served as a loyal driver, bodyguard, and enforcer for former Philadelphia Family acting boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi. Dave owns an Italian American restaurant in Jersey called Saltwater. Said to have been made in 2015.

Gravano says in Mafia States of America that he got made in 1976 and the only murder he did prior to this would have been the Collucci murder in 1970 for Tommy Spero. Why would the Gambinos make him if this was the case?

On top of this, Gravano left the Colombos prior to this (I believe) due to beef with the Speros?

It's a MGM+ series on Bumpy Johnson

A low-intensity feud. Little blood, a lot of lead, tension constantly above the limit. But the latest entry in the notebook of the investigators called to monitor the criminal turmoil in western Naples is one that will leave one sleeping uneasy. A window, in the heart of the Fuorigrotta neighborhood, is riddled with five gunshots. This alone would be enough to give an idea of a brutal raid, which only by pure chance did not have dramatic consequences. That's not all, however. What makes one's blood run cold is the target of the mysterious intimidation: a former child killer, with a "hefty" surname behind him. The one targeted is Domenique Giannelli, nephew of the repentant boss Alessandro, fresh from a twelve-year prison sentence for a brutal murder committed as a minor and now under semi-liberty. With the former area bosses imprisoned and at least four groups of young men with aspirations to become Mafia bosses at large, the risk of a new outbreak of violence is far from a possibility.

The alarm was raised shortly before dawn on Saturday. With darkness still shrouding the city streets, the Carabinieri received a call for intervention from some residents: "They've been shot, run." A few minutes later, the first police cars rushed to Via della Grotta Vecchia, a stone's throw from the commercial heart of Fuorigrotta. No bullet casings were found on the asphalt, nor even traces of blood. However, the Carabinieri needed only to look a few meters up to verify the veracity of the report. The window of an apartment was riddled with gunshots: the five entry wounds left little doubt that that home was the true target of the armed raid. The investigation continues, and the Carabinieri of the Bagnoli company are also tracking down the possible recipient of the "message": the scion of the Phlegraean mafia, Dominique Giannelli, already definitively convicted for being the perpetrator of the murder of Pasquale Zito. Questions have long surrounded the motive for the crime, even recently investigated by informants, but so far it has been classified as a settling of scores sparked by a passion: jealousy over advances the victim allegedly made towards the then-16-year-old's girlfriend.

While waiting for the images captured by local security cameras to provide the first answers, the state's reaction has not been long in coming. The men of the Bagnoli police station's investigative team went into action, conducting a search that culminated in a significant seizure. The raid took place in a building on Via Bagnoli, just meters from the epicenter of Coroglio's nightlife. It was here that, while searching a condominium area, police seized forty-nine rounds of ammunition and twenty grams of marijuana. Investigators consider the building to be one of the strongholds of the emerging Maiorino group, a gang of "terrible boys" long linked to the Troncone clan of Fuorigrotta and, at times, already on a collision course with the new recruits of the clan led by the now former boss Alessandro Giannelli, who joined the ranks of the justice system in early April. This seizure captures a volatile reality.

Tensions remain high in Fuorigrotta and Bagnoli.

James summarizes Sammy The Bull's latest livestream.

Sammy apparently said that he still considers Tommy Karate to be a friend and fully understands why he's protective of his daughter - and that he's welcome to come live at his house when he gets out.

There were also negative comments about Greg Scarpa Jr. Sammy says that Greg is a rat who knew his fawtha was a rat. Carmine Persico was also a rat who knew that Scarpa was a rat. As did many of the Colombos.

Yaknow, like - "wouldn't it be exciting to go out and jack a truck, or rob an armored car, just the one time?".

Or something like going to visit some bikers, beating the crap out of them and stealing their meth.

The final story in this three-part Substack series is here.

The story details how Robert Dumas, a Cleveland police official, who was once the city’s Assistant Safety Director, ended up working as an armed enforcer for Carmen Zagaria, the man who ran the city's Mafia-financed cocaine and drug trade through the late 1970s and into the 1980s.

The story begins in 1980 with Dumas as one of two men Zagaria turned to for a robbery of one of his own drug runners at a hotel on West 150th in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland. The other man involved with the robbery was Fritz Graewe, another known accomplice of the drug ring and brother of Hans Graewe.

The relationship between Dumas and Zagaria deepened when Dumas brokered Zagaria's introduction to Dr. Lambert DePompei, a renowned physician who also turned to corruption to enrich himself. Dr. DePompei served as the ring's inside doctor and built an insurance fraud scheme out of staged accidents.

The Substack series is a companion to my forthcoming book, Unraveling the American Mafia: Angelo Lonardo, Carmen Zagaria, and the Beginning of the End in Cleveland (Bloomsbury, 2027). Before it arrives, I'll be publishing side stories from this world on my Substack. Some didn't make the book and others simply deserve more attention than the book allowed or was focused on. Subscribe to follow along. That way, the stories will come straight to your email inbox. I'll periodically post here though.

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Here is the final part of this story.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timgill924/p/how-a-cleveland-cop-worked-for-the-ab4?r=1ixz1x&utm_medium=ios

Stanley Cup winner and former Boston Bruin 🐻 Chris Nilan talks about meeting his future “ father in law “ for the first time 👀.

I knew of a few mafia guys, from leaders to associates in the 2000s-2010s in Queens. They always dressed very casual, like a typical blue colllar worker. In the 90s I did remember seeing some guys in fancy suits, but that might have been a special occassion..

Is it just a Hollywood stereotype that they dressed sharp? Or was it more common in the older generations?