Hollywood goodfella: Mob turncoat braves ‘death sentence’ to testify in Ligambi Trial

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Mob turncoat braves 'death sentence' to testify in Ligambi Trial Oct 27th 2012, 06:27 Joe Ligambi, reputed Philadelphia Mob boss By John P. Martin, Inquirer Staff writer Deep in debt and unable to pay, Michael F. Orlando Jr. had a proposal. He asked his South Philadelphia loan shark if he might earn credit – and good will – by working as a street collector. But the alleged shark, Damion Canalichio, nixed the idea. Orlando’s loan wasn’t his to forgive, Canalichio said. It belonged to “Stevie and Joey,” shorthand that Orlando took to mean reputed mob boss Joseph Ligambi and a lieutenant, Steve Mazzone. “It’s Uncle Joe’s money?” Orlando asked in the 2002 conversation, recorded by the FBI. “Yeah,” Canalichio said. Federal prosecutors on Friday played that tape – and a handful of others – in a bid to persuade jurors that even the smaller loans were part of a larger organized gambling, extortion and loan-shark racket controlled by Ligambi and his associates, and that the money flowed up. Read the rest Here on Philly.com Media files: af11 ligambi-trial

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