Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino was allegedly one of the most infamous mob bosses to ever come out of Philadelphia, although he denies being part of the mafia. Merlino and his alleged faction of La Cosa ...

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia outlines the battle for power among rival mafiosos in the 1990s. One of its subjects, Joey Merlino, was convicted on racketeering charges in 2001. He ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A reputed former mob boss is free after serving four months in federal prison for failing to report a meeting with a former co-defendant at a Florida cigar bar. A federal appeals court ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A reputed Philadelphia mob boss who reinvented himself as a restaurateur relapsed into a life of crime by orchestrating a health care fraud that made a fortune for an East Coast crime ...

New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner said that a social media post that surfaced on July 7 is not what it seems: He was not “hanging out” with mob boss Joey Merlino. After the convicted Philadelphia ...

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino. When longtime boss Nicky Scarfo's reign fell in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) – Reputed Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Merlino has moved to glitzy Boca Raton a year after serving a 14-year sentence for extortion and illegal gambling. Merlino, known as ...

PHILADELPHIA — Federal prison officials say former Philadelphia mob leader Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino has been released from an Indiana prison and arrived in Florida on Tuesday to begin a six-month ...

ATLANTIC CITY - Joseph N. Merlino's construction company was allowed to build a new barracks for the New Jersey State Police and the headquarters for the Atlantic City Police Department, but it is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) George Anastasia, Rowan University (THE CONVERSATION) The bloody mob war that is the ...