Yeah you can't expect a yahoo like Jr. to do it. Im saying Chuckie and Lawrence fell out of favor with Scarfo towards the end and had the whole gang not went away it would of been done, take your pick, Faffy, the Narducci's, the Grandes, the Milanos, Leonetti himself, im sure they all would of gladly done Joey in.
No doubt if Scarfo's guys weren't all locked up they would of been gunning for Joey.
Look at how close Veasey came to taking out both Mike Chang and Merlino for Stanfa. But Joey's a lucky guy and just took a shot to the ass. Chang wasn't as lucky.
Another time a couple of Stanfa's morons put a pipe bomb under merlino's car. It didn't go off and Joey was driving all over south philly dragging that bomb around.
Battaglia testified about it. "On one occasion, Battaglia said, he and another mobster planted a pipe bomb under Merlino's car and then watched, stunned, as Merlino got in and drove away, dragging the bomb under the car as they tried futilely to detonate the device by remote control.
``We're hitting the remote. Nothing,'' Battaglia testified. ``It isn't blowing up or nothing.''
