Cosa Nostra News

A Philadelphia Mafia member who is based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was sentenced on Thursday to 12.5 years in prison for selling around half a pound of crystal methamphetamine. He also had staged a fake robbery of a New Jersey pawnshop to perpetrate an insurance fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Salvatore (Sam) Piccolo, 68, of Atlantic City, a member of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra organized crime family, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler earlier this year to distributing methamphetamine and one count of wire fraud. Judge Kugler imposed the sentence in Camden federal court. According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: Piccolo distributed quantities of crystal methamphetamine to FBI undercover agents on three separate occasions between June 2017 and September 2017. On one occasion, he sold the undercover agent approximately four ounces of crystal methamphetamine in a restaurant parking lot in Sicklervill...

Joseph (Joey Electric) Servidio, 59, a reputed made member of the Philadelphia Cosa Nostra family , last week copped to drug charges.  Philly wiseguys circa 1980s: Servidio near right. Servidio pleaded guilty on June 17 to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin laced with fentanyl, along with other drugs. He faces about 12-plus years in prison and his sentencing is slated for Sept. 24. He was arrested in March 2018 with two other South-Jersey wiseguys - - Carl Chianese and Michael Gallichio, both associates -- for “conspiring to possess” drugs with intent to sell. The FBI described the case as a dismantling of a drug pipeline running nearly the length of the Garden State Parkway.  Initially the FBI indicated that elements of the Boston Mafia also were involved in this case. The arrests followed a two-year FBI probe . The indictment relied heavily on audio recordings of Servidio discuss...