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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]
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 .
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 ...
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.
Vincent Palermo was born in New York City on June 4, 1944, and raised in a traditional Italian-American family in Brooklyn.He was an in-law by marriage to Nicholas Delmore, the former head of the New Jersey crime family, whose nephew was Simone DeCavalcante, also a New Jersey mob boss whose daughter he married.
In a 2002 interview in Blackjack Forum magazine, [6] John Chang, an MIT undergrad who joined the team in late 1980 (and became MIT team co-manager in the mid-1980s and 1990s), reported that, in addition to classic card counting and blackjack team techniques, at various times the group used advanced shuffle and ace tracking techniques.
John Joseph DiGilio Sr. also known as "Johnny Dee", (December 5, 1932 – May 27, 1988), was a New Jersey mobster with the Genovese crime family who became a powerful organized crime leader in the New Jersey faction.