Philly family never really made that much dough in reality, Scarfo's money was never going to last.

Philly family never really made that much dough in reality, Scarfo's money was never going to last.

I gotta agree. In Phil’s book he said between him and his uncle, they only had about $2.5 million when they were indicted.

he couldn't hit Joey Merlino. Well apart from losing most of his guys (jail), once Leonetti flipped, he allegedly got his mum to steal the money that they hid behind a wall.

Then in his book, Phil talked about how before he flipped, his uncle was livid with his "witch" wife who lost a huge amount of money in Vegas

Plus lawyer fees don't come cheap. People always talk about the huge amount of money coming in, but never how much goes out. Scarfo was a huge spender according to the Crow. And would pick up every tab for 30 guys like nothing.

Then factor nicky jr was reporting a lot of people stopped paying the street tax and Merlino was extorting the same people. So not only did his $$ stopped coming in, he lost his stash too.

Knowing Scarfo sr like we do, nicky the crow once said "he had to be going nuts in there (when nicky jr got shot). "

That 500k open contract Scarfo put on Merlino was nonsense just like the open contract on Pistone.

If somebody did whack Merlino and 20 guys turned up to claim they done it, who the heck do u pay. Not that anyone would even pay that absurd amount to get someone whacked. So it was a load of Bs which the media picked up

Now if he was serious about it, surely Scarfo could easily pay someone to get the job done. Which is why I think he didn't have the financial means to. People on these boards claim the mob do not carry out money contracts. But they're greedy fuks, and money talks. Brothers would kill each other over money.

Vic Amuso could only provide nicky jr protection. The only way he would have got Merlino was through Nicky jr and we know that wasn't happening. And yes Nicky Jr did make shit loads of money later on.....

Scarfo was making serious money. Not quite NYC boss money but definitely legit money. Leonetti said he collected $3M while he was down at La Tuna and that was a year (1982). So considering his heyday was 81-87 that’s a little under $20M so let’s say conservatively he had $10-15M and adjust that for inflation in today’s money that’s about $25-30M. But who knows... they don’t put out financials as we all know.

What I really would like to know is where Bruno’s cash was holed up. He was sitting at the top for 20 years during the heyday of the mob and was smart - he had investments all over the place. Now he wasn’t grabbing with both fists like Scarfo, but I still bet bet-net even without the street tax that Bruno was bringing anywhere around $2-3M a year easy. I know his daughter Jean and her husband Ralph Puppo had a serious mansion out in a Radnor Township that they lived in during the 70s & 80s and I’ve seen it it’s a seriously huge mansion. Still standing to this day.

To keep things in perspective, Gravano said he thought Gotti was bringing in about $10M a year when he was on the street.

Were u at Angeloni’s , SERP?

Isn’t Juliano’s out in EHT?