Skinny Joey: Feds "Wanted to Stick It Up My Ass"
They tried to stick it up Merlino's ass, he said..... From Big Trial : "They owe me four months," Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino quipped during a phone interview this afternoon, adding, "I hope they just leave me alone. I'm not doing anything wrong." Last month, when the appellate court announced it was vacating the lower court order that sent Merlino back to jail, his lawyer, Edwin Jacobs Jr. declared that "my client has served a four-month sentence for doing absolutely nothing wrong." But that's not exactly the legal takeaway from the split decision of the appellate court that was made public today.