Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino was allegedly one of the most infamous mob bosses to ever come out of Philadelphia, although he denies being part of the mafia. Merlino and his alleged faction of La Cosa ...

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia outlines the battle for power among rival mafiosos in the 1990s. One of its subjects, Joey Merlino, was convicted on racketeering charges in 2001. He ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A reputed former mob boss is free after serving four months in federal prison for failing to report a meeting with a former co-defendant at a Florida cigar bar. A federal appeals court ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A reputed Philadelphia mob boss who reinvented himself as a restaurateur relapsed into a life of crime by orchestrating a health care fraud that made a fortune for an East Coast crime ...

Joey Merlino, who spent much of his life in and out of prison and survived multiple assassination attempts, is now focusing on his latest venture, a cheesesteak shop called Skinny Joey’s, writes ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest from the New York fraud trial of a reputed Philadelphia mob boss (all times local): 10:15 a.m. A federal prosecutor in New York says a reputed Philadelphia mob boss was a ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The flamboyant alleged head of the Philadelphia Mafia was released from jail Friday after a federal judge granted him $5 million bail as he awaits trial on racketeering ...

CLAIM: The campaign for President-elect Joe Biden paid Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, a mob boss in Philadelphia, to fill out 300,000 blank ballots.