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Gangland News Guest Column
This Week in Gang LandUnknown Racketeering Defendant Linked To The Mob, Mulch and Medicare Fraud In Three StatesIn the pecking order of the racketeering indictment of 46 mob-connected defendants with...
View ArticleAn Italian News Org Takes A Look At The Philadelphia Mob
A look at the Philadelphia mob...in Italian.https://news.vice.com/it/article/mafia-italiana-america-declino
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No Reservatons At Ristorante Merlino
Reprinted with permission from Gangland News.See link below By George AnastasiaNo Reservations At Skinny Joey's Florida RestaurantIf you picked up a snazzy Merlino's wineglass on your last trip to...
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Former L&I Deputy Commissioner Dominic Verdi Goes On Trial
By Ralph CiprianoAs head of the city's Nuisance Task Force, Dominic Verdi wore a bulletproof vest. Whenever, he was leading an after-hours raid on a crack house, nuisance bar, or an unlicensed massage...
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Government Witnesses At Verdi Trial Caught At Baggage Check
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netThe government's first two witnesses in the corruption trial of former Deputy L&I Commissioner Dominic Verdi came to the witness stand yesterday loaded with...
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Dominic Verdi To Take Stand In His Own Corruption Trial
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netA federal prosecutor has spent most of this week building the case against DominicVerdi, the former Philadelphia Deputy Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections...
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Convicted Killer Testifies That Verdi Protected Strip Club
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netThe government's latest star witness in the Dominic Verdi corruption trial showed up in court today wearing a prison jump suit.Other featured cooperating witnesses in...
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Verdi On Stand: "Stupidist Thing That I Ever Did In My Life"
By Ralph CiprianoDominic Verdi, who took the stand today in his own defense, admitted that he had a conflict of interest when he bought Chappy's Beer, Butts & Bets, and tried to keep it a...
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As Sentencing Nears, Debate Continues Over Chaka Fattah
Matt Rourke/Associated PressBy Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netOn Dec. 12th, former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, convicted of corruption last June, is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Harvey Bartle...
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As Verdi Trial Winds Down, Judge Keeps Stopwatch On Prosecutor
NYTimes/Mark MakelaBy Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netDuring closing arguments today in the Dominic Verdi corruption case, U.S. District Court Judge Berle M. Schiller was keeping a strict stopwatch on a...
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Verdi Not Guilty On All Counts
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netA jury deliberated for just a couple of hours today before unanimously acquitting Dominic Verdi on all the political corruption charges against him.Verdi, the former...
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Big Trial In The News
It was a good week in the media for Big Trial.First, The Philadelphia Inquirer discovered by reading Big Trial that former L&I Deputy Commissioner Dominic Verdi had been found not guilty of the...
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Fattah Gets Ten Years In The Slammer
Matt Rourke/APBy Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netIt was a prison sentence that seemed to please both sides."I'm personally satisfied," said U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger today, after Judge Harvey Bartle III...
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At The D.A.'s Office, It's About To Hit The Fan
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netSeth Williams should bring an umbrella to work.Why? Because our corrupt district attorney, already under investigation by the FBI, the IRS and a grand jury, is about to...
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Judge Harvey Bartle III Sets Hearing On Philly Inquirer Motion To Unseal...
Illustration: politics365.comBy Ralph CiprianoFor BigTrial.netJudge Harvey Bartle III has scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. Friday on a motion by Philadelphia Media Network to unseal "records and...
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Judge To Release Transcript Regarding Dismissal Of 12th Juror
By George AnastasiaA federal judge said Friday that he will unseal all documents explaining how and why a holdout juror was dismissed in the Chaka Fattah corruption case.Judge Harvey Bartle III,...
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Retired Detective Joe Walsh Will Testify Jan. 5th About "Billy Doe"
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netAt 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 5th, retired Detective Joseph Walsh is scheduled to appear under subpoena as a witness in the courtroom of Common Pleas Court Judge Gwendolyn N....
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Is He An Obstinate Juror? Or Henry Fonda In 12 Angry Men?
By Ralph CiprianoFor BigTrial.netWas Juror No. 12 in the Chaka Fattah case being obstinate? Or was he reprising Henry Fonda's role in 12 Angry Men?Was Juror No. 12 violating his oath as a juror? Or...
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"Godfather" Galati Loses Another One
By George AnastasiaFor BigTrial.netThis has not been a good month for wannabe wiseguy Ron Galati.The South Philadelphia auto body owner with the Godfather complex was sentenced a few weeks ago to a...
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Inside The Jury Room
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.netOn the first day of deliberations in the political corruption trial of U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, the jurors were screaming at each other.After an 11-1 vote, the...
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