PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 13-year FBI probe and subsequent racketeering indictment against seven reputed Philadelphia mobsters was built on unreliable testimony and weak evidence about trivial crimes ...

The South Philadelphia native was a central mafia figure who now says he regrets ever having joined.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The FBI paid mob informants more than $500,000 and overlooked their crimes to try to bolster a racketeering case that’s “been on life support” for years, a defense lawyer argued ...

Mafia documentaries have clogged the airwaves for decades, but a new one coming to Netflix on Wednesday sets a new standard. Multiple docuseries, generally seen on basic cable, have traditionally ...

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino. When longtime boss Nicky Scarfo's reign fell in the ...

Angelo Bruno, Philadelphia's mob boss in the 1960s and 1970s, was killed by a shotgun blast in 1980 as he sat in a car in front of his house on 934 Snyder Avenue. The grisly story is no doubt a point ...

New York Jets star Sauce Garder was seen hanging out with rumored mob boss “Skinny Joey” Merlino at a party in Florida this weekend. The latter, whose full name is Joseph Salvatore Merlino, is ...

(PHILADELPHIA) -- More than 26 years after a man was gunned down outside his Philadelphia home in what police described as a mob-style killing, a suspect was arrested this week, a block from the crime ...

Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino is one of the subjects of Netflix's 'Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia' Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

(AP) A federal jury in Philadelphia is hearing from attorneys for several reputed mobsters charged in a wide-ranging racketeering case. Friday marks the second day of closing arguments in the trial of ...