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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police are investigating a suspected arson at the South Philly storefront where convicted mob boss Joey Merlino plans to open a new cheesesteak shop, authorities said. Around 2:15 a.m. Thursday, ...

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 ...

(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 ...