Hollywood goodfella: Joseph Merlino: The Ruthless Mobster next door

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Joseph Merlino: The Ruthless Mobster next door Sep 30th 2012, 04:35 Joseph “skinny joey” merlino former boss of   Philly-South Jersey La Cosa Nostra by Julie K.Brown. Miami Herald Joseph Merlino steps out onto the iron-railed balcony of his $400,000 Boca Raton townhouse. Bare-chested, ripped and clad in nothing but grey skivvies, he looks more like a former Calvin Klein underwear model than one of the most ruthless mobsters of his time. A year out of prison, Joseph Salvatore "Skinny Joey" Merlino isn't so skinny anymore. But he looks almost as boyish at 50 as at 39, when he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for racketeering. Back then, he was a five-foot-three, 100-pound dapper young don who masterminded the bloody takeover of the Philadelphia mob. Today, he is a two-hour plane ride from the Southwest Philadelphia row house where he grew up to become an underworld icon, both feared and eerily revered in the City of Brotherly Love. read Rest Here Media files: Joseph "skinny joey" merlino

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