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Michael "Mikey Chang" Ciancaglini: August 5, 1993: Philly mob soldier, 10 to 15 shots were fired at him and Joey Merlino by Philip Colletti and John Veasey on a South Philadelphia street corner as they left a mob social club. [275] [276] Ciancaglini died from gunshot wounds to the chest and lungs, and Merlino was shot in the buttocks. [277] [278]
Founded in the 1960s, the gang's name stems from a street corner that intersects 10th Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. [1] The 10th & Oregon Crew conducts drug trafficking, gambling, extortion and loan sharking rackets and operates from a series of taverns, bars, restaurants and social clubs in South Philadelphia and South Jersey. [1]
Gaetano "Horsehead" Scafidi (left) was a childhood friend of Merlino. He eventually switched allegiance to John Stanfa (right) in the 1990s. In 2000, he became a government witness and testified at Merlino's trial. Merlino served his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, McKean, where he met mobster Ralph Natale in 1990. Natale was ...
John Ciangalini "Johnny Chang" (capo) Michael Lancelotti [PD] (acting consigliere/soldier) ... Joseph Ciancaglini - Philadelphia crime family soldier
Giovanni "John" Stanfa (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈstaɱfa]; born December 7, 1940) is an Italian-born American mobster and former boss of the Philadelphia crime family from 1990 to 1995. Convicted of multiple charges in 1995, Stanfa was sentenced to life in prison .
Michael J. Coppola (born May 18, 1946), [2] also known as "Mikey Cigars", is an American mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family active in their New Jersey faction.He made national headlines when he went into hiding for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction.
The 1990 mug shot of John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family from 1985 to 2002. 1900s–1910 – Ignazio "the Wolf" Lupo – imprisoned in 1910. [68] 1910–1928 – Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila – took over the Brooklyn Camorra in 1916 and merged with Al Mineo's gang forming the largest family in New York.
John "Johnny Carnegs" Carneglia (born May 21, 1945) is an American mobster in the Gambino crime family. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1989 for racketeering and drug trafficking charges. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1989 for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.