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'' Gene Gotti's dead." -- Bobby Manna (as per FBI transcripts) '' We're gonna be paying for this, you know, for the rest of our lives." -- J ames (Jimmy Nap) Napoli  Louis (Bobby) Manna— the Genovese family's former number three man who in the 1980s was poised to shoot it out with the Gotti regime of the Gambino family to protect Genovese family interests in the Garden State—was released from prison last month and is now under the care of court-approved custodians, as per reports. Manna and his crew were rounded up in June 1988. Manna was recorded plotting to kill both John Gotti and his older brother Gene, among others. Manna, 95, served more than 36 years of an 80-year Federal racketeering sentence. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kirsch granted the petition for “compassionate release” –which detailed Manna’s deteriorating health – on April 16. Manna reportedly is bed-ridden and suffers from chronic kidney disease, lung cancer, bacterial infecti...

The year 1987 was slightly more than a week old when FBI agents nabbed Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo as he emerged from a plane at the Atlantic City airport.  None of Chin's plots touched Gambino boss John Gotti. The violent, mercurial Philadelphia boss—he was John Gotti's more murderous precursor—and his girlfriend were returning from Fort Lauderdale, where they had spent the New Year’s holiday. Scarfo, sporting a deep winter tan and perfectly coiffed hair and dressed to the nines in an impeccable suit, looked like a million bucks, almost like an old-school Hollywood star showing up at the Oscars. He smiled and nodded as the agents handcuffed him and walked him to the vehicle that would drive him to his well-deserved fate. The Feds had indicted Scarfo and three others earlier that day on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion in the shakedown of Penn’s Landing, an area along the Delaware River that had been targeted for redevelopment. Penn's Landing was named after th...

The current relationship between the American Mafia and the Pagan's is not the only thing about the 1%ers that has evolved since the 1980s, when the outlaw motorcycle club balked at paying the street tax imposed by then Philadelphia boss Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo. The Pagan's balked at the street tax imposed by Little Nicky. As of September 2020, the Pagan's, one of the "big four" largest outlaw motorcycle clubs in the US, are undergoing a violent "resurgence," according to a recently published report by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI) .  The MC, which uses drones and encrypted communications to avoid detection, has seen an unprecedented surge in membership, nearly doubling in size over the past few years. The Pagan's also are significantly more violent , with experts noting that there have been more violent incidents committed by the Pagan's during a recent 18-month period than during the prior 10 years combined. (Be...

Valuetainment, which spoke with former Gambino underboss Salvatore (Sammy The Bull) Gravano last October, has now posted a new interview with another former Mafia underboss : Crazy Phil Leonetti, formerly of the Philadelphia Crime Family. ( See full interview below in this story. ) Crazy Phil and uncle Little Nicky Scarfo. Crazy Phil was a highly effective government witness who testified at several trials up and down the East Coast, having his 45-year prison sentence reduced to five years, five months, and five days as a result of his cooperation in helping crush the Philadelphia Mafia family, including his uncle Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo, one of most vicious Cosa Nostra bosses ever. Crazy Phil rose to underboss under Scarfo before becoming a government informant in 1989. At that time, he was the highest-ranking member of the American Mafia to break his blood oath. Leonetti once said, "I never did nothing ruthless besides, well, I would kill people. But that...

Its a truism that wiseguys can win cases without fixing the jury. Phil Narducci (Source: Gangster Report ) Having savvy lawyers always helps, but when the defendant's accusers have dirtier laundry than the defendant, then that defendant has a good shot. Typically, when it's a former wiseguy testifying, he has his own colorful criminal history, and the particulars tend to obstruct whatever comes out of his mouth on the witness stand. If he's suspected of committing worse crimes than the defendant, defense attorneys will have a field day highlighting that in great detail for each and every juror. But if the accuser is perceived to be even worse than the guy on trial, jurors will probably be hard-pressed to convict, especially if the defendant is facing decades in prison. On that note, Phil Narducci's attorneys seem to have hit the jackpot. ( Narducci was arrested in Feburary.) They say that their client's chief accuser (a man they previ...

Three days prior to the Department of Justice's October 8, 2015, announcement that 6,000 federal inmates would be released “to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades,” a man who pleaded guilty to running an alleged $75 million-a-year drug dealing operation for the Philadelphia Cosa Nostra was released from federal prison. Former dealer George Martorano, son of Long John. George Martorano — the son of late Philly mobster Raymond “Long John” Martorano —served 31 years in a series of “supermax” prisons and prior to his October 5, 2015, release from Florida’s Coleman Prison was described as the longest incarcerated non-violent offender in the federal prison system. “I was told the only way I’d get out was in a body bag,” Martorano said recently. “I proved them wrong.” George Martorano has used his years of freedom to set himself up in a business that’s not altogether dissimilar to the one he was ...

One of the prosecutors who put Little Nicky Scarfo away for life is running for Congress and highlighting his role in locking up the notorious Cosa Nostra boss as a key part of his electioneering platform. Little Nicky Scarfo in 1982. Nicodemo Domenic (Little Nicky) Scarfo (March 8, 1929 – January 13, 2017) became the boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the murders of Angelo Bruno, then Phil Testa. Scarfo was often described as psychotic, cruel, vicious, and most certainly homicidal, wanting murdered anyone who exhibited even the slightest sign of disrespect toward him. Looking him in the eyes could've been a death sentence. Joe Peters is among three Republicans running to be Congressman for Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District, which will have a new representative in 2019 because of the new congressional map ordered by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The seat will be open because its current representative, Tom Marino, is runni...