On Twitter that Mob Talk Radio guy says a made Philly member has been under/cooperating since 2015 and he makes it sound like indictments are coming this week

It's about time someone started a Philly thread.

https://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2018/03/19/la-cosa-nostra-drug-arrests/438618002/

There was a poster on here last night from Philly, who knows the guys that were picked up last week.
He said 4 guys got picked up and one guy was wearing a wire.

Stripes

Your boys have to know who the C.I. is at this point.

This is the 2nd time for each of them looks like
They are looking at a decent bid here.

This is a very bad time to be into heroin and pills.

They are slamming people for this right now.

Yes they now all the rats now 4 in total

http://gangsterreport.com/the-listening ... nt-abound/

Piccolo has a few low level shoplifting arrests in the AC area it appears that I found out. Piccolo was also once married to a Grande, wonder if Dom will end up getting picked up in this investigation.

Why were ranking (madeguys) touching drugs, especially at that age?

They should've had an underlings, underling, little cousin with an underling selling for them

Hey Dante- Salvatore 'Sam' Piccolo is Anthony Tony Buck Piccolo's newphew and Sam Piccolo wasn't married to a Grande. His sister was married to Wayne Grande back in the 80's. Sam's sister's name was Rita Piccolo Grande at the time and then when Wayne Grande flipped in like '96 she got divorced from Wayne immediately. She comes from a real deal mob family she doesn't put up with rats. Rita Grande (she's remarried since and is Rita Marrone now), along with her two kids (Dominic and Lea) all disowned Wayne after he ratted out Rita's brother who is one of the guy's who got caught in this drug case. Coincidently, Sam Piccolo's other drug conviction was the reason that Wayne Grande flipped. Basically, long story short, Wayne was trying to move some cocaine with two other NYC mobsters while he was locked up post-Scarfo trial convictions and Wayne along with these two other NY mobsters he was serving time with at Leavenworth found a cocaine connection via another prisoner in Leavenworth who ended up being a Fed informant who was just trying to setup other prisoners to get favorable treatment or time off his sentence. Sam Piccolo was Wayne's brother in law and a Mob Associate from the Scarfo days and was with Wayne. Wayne got Sam Piccolo to be his guy on the outside to orchestrate the deal from him and do all the exchanges. After finding out that the connection he was dealing with was a Fed informant, he flipped and ratted his cousin out to the Feds and basically set him up so Sam Piccolo ends up going through with the deal with Wayne knowing the whole time that he's just meeting Feds instead of a true drug/Cocaine deal. Sam also had a gun so a got a weapons charge as well. Anyways, that's why Wayne flipped, Sam Piccolo got his first drug charge, and Rita Piccolo Grande divorced and disowned Wayne Grande.

That said, the whole family (Piccolos and Grandes) all disowned Wayne Grande, but still get along with each other. Joe Grande is up in North Jersey with the Licata Crew in Newark/N. Jersey so my guess is that Joe Grande still kept in touch with Sam and remained close friends/sort of family (I know the kids Dom and Lea and ex-sister-in-law Rita all kept in touch with Joe Grande while he was in prison and definitely re-connected with Joe Grande once he got out of prison a couple of years ago). I have more info around all that if anyone cares. But again, my guess is that Joe Grande got Sam Piccolo back under him despite Joe being in North Jersey and Sam being in Philly and Sam was probably doing these drug deals under the auspices and approval of Joe Grande, which is also kind of ironic being that Wayne Grande (Joe Grande's brother got Sam Pic in trouble with drugs the first time... granted Joe Grande isn't going to flip unlike his brother Wayne). Joe Grande, who has a house in S. Jersey, probably connected with Joey Electric Servidio since he's been up in Newark in the North Jersey and then connected Joey Electric with his ex-brother-in-law Sam Piccolo who in turn got this all in the works down in AC and South Jersey and vice verse, etc.

I knew Sam Pic ran around, but didn't realize he is/was a Made Guy as it has been mentioned in these threads - interesting.

Big stuff... this is how it all starts so should be interesting between this and Merlino's potential re-trial. Good time to be a criminal defense/Mob Lawyer these days! Also, really curious who the Made Guy Rat is? I would be absolutely SHOCKED if it was Lou Fizzini who was Licata's Acting Capo and who has been slated as the de-facto Capo to take over the North Jersey Crew once Licata retires. Anyways, that's enough of a rant from me. Great thread so far!

Philly LCN/Joseph Servidio Indictment

I posted a link above to the full indictment if anybody else wants to read it. Skimmed through a good bit of it... in the first couple pages it mentions that one of the informants (Confidential Source 1, or CS-1) is a made member of the Philadelphia LCN who worked for a capo in North Jersey. The indictment doesn't list Scoops Licata by name, but says that INDIVIDUAL is a captain in the Philadelphia LCN based in northern New Jersey. So obviously the informant/rat is a made guy in the North Jersey faction according to the indictment. Any idea who it could be?

There were a couple other interesting things. Scott mentions on his website that Piccolo was caught up in this bust and that he is also a made guy in Philly. I've never seen him on any of the charts before and have never seen his name mentioned in years. Through the first 15 pages or so of the indictment I also haven't seen his name brought up yet. Kinda interesting to me. The indictment also mentions that there is a Philadelphia based captain that Joey Electric calls "kid" in one the wiretaps. The indictment alleges that this captain is "significantly younger" than Servidio, who is 58 if I recall correctly. I'm kinda curious who this captain is that they are referring to. Has Dom Grande been bumped up?

You r got the right idea..... Infrmant from new Jersey. Not Philly

It might be the case nobody wanted to deal with that crew from North Jersey.Maybe It fell in Dom's lap. If you were from south philly why would you want to be capo to those guys, other than ego of being a capo. You really dont know those guys. More trouble then its worth.

Not in north jersey crew, servidio is, rat is in the 'kids' crew

I also know Rita Grande and her children. Domenic and Lea.... Beautiful family, piccolo and grandes, amd you're right , the real deal when it comes to mafia 101..
Dom's a hell of a.guy..not many like.him. .. I would hate to see him caught up in something just because Sam is his family....he genuine Dom g. the.mother taught them kids right.
.the daughter Lea, she's the baby, stunning,real pretty kid,
They strong family...... Old school .to be honest Dom got.it all over the two uncle's.... They should take lessons from him.

Pino,totally agree..dom is aces...no doubt...ive gotten to like joe , hes worn on me

I stand corrected .

You're right, I went back and read again and I misread some of the indictment. It says that CS-1 is a made member of the Philadelphia LCN who worked for INDIVIDUAL-2 (a capo in the Philadelphia LCN), who is also referred to as "the kid" by Servidio in the wiretaps. I knew Servidio was part of North Jersey, but I read the indictment wrong and thought it originally said that CS-1's captain was from North Jersey.

"The kid" has to be in reference to Dom Grande.. who else would be a captain "significantly younger" than a 58 year old? Either way, at this point we don't know for sure who this alleged captain is or who would be the made guys in this particular crew to know who the informant could be.

Informant isnt a guy publicly known or on charts...and id say .the kid.has a headache

And k1ng6..easy mistake, very confusing and numbers arent cohesive so easy mistake

These guys are looking at 15 years on plea deals maybe more.

Even the hardest of hard start thinking when they throw 15 years in their face
And/or tell us what we want to hear we'll let you go tonight and you will get time served.

I think they want Merlino more than any other wiseguy right now.

The only way to get him is get one of these guys to tell on the guys in his inner circle and so forth

That's how that story goes

Keep going up the food chain until you find someone that you can squeeze for whatever the reason is.

Its dangerous to be friends with Merlino right now
Because they are looking to squeeze you to get to him.

Legit guys and all

Gotti they started with a guy that cleaned the raven night club.

Massino they started with a guy that owned parking lots that was a hanger on
He didn't file taxes and they threw 10 years at him so he flipped

For all you younger guys, this is an absolute perfect case illustrating why that lifestyle is a waste. Those guys basically did everything correctly and still got caught. In cosa nostra, too many people know what you do and you are always vulnerable.
Your capo knows what you do, your biz partners know what you do and so do the people they tell.
Unless you commit crimes solo, your days are numbered. Dont let all these books and movies fool you when you see pictures of wiseguys in prison with their arms around each other and smiling. Trust me, they fuckin hate prison.
All these guys are going to get very heavy time, the indictment speaks volumes. Mike Galliccio spent half his life behind bars as did many in his family. They are all from south orange ave in newark.

Bensonhurst..you are right on with the blue print..the wat it reads, just the start of a long proces

Biggie, I hear ya.... The kid must have a headache

Yeh.. Rita good people.... Domenic and Lea.. do anything for ya. Dom is old school one of the last of the Mohicans

Biggie, Dom can teach all these kids a thing or tow, am I right

@ Belmont... merlino have nothing to do with it, they went after ligambi's and Merlino was still in jail, they went after Crea and he was no showboat, don't you think they will do whatever it takes to get thier hands on Barney?
I think some of you guys might have a personal grudge against him.by you can't blame Merlino because a made guy flipped, you can't blame Merlino because a made guy sold drugs directly to the feds, and you definitely can't blame Merlino if somebody starts name dropping on audio. As far as warning the kids save your breath, these guys know what thier signing up for, it's just that some of them use snitching as an escape plan. If no one put a gun to your head and made you do a crime then you should be accountable for your actions and keep your mouth shut. After all f these years some guys haven't learned

Is licata retired?

Pino, dom is defintely beyond his years, no doubt about it..

I never said anything about merlino.