{"id":107323,"date":"2020-11-17T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107323"},"modified":"2020-11-17T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:44:15","slug":"boss-tweed-would-be-so-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107323","title":{"rendered":"Boss Tweed Would Be So Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/buffalochronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3402560_042818-wpvi-merlino-guilty-9a-video-vid.jpg?resize=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"467\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This story comes to us from the Buffalo Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that a Philadelphia mobster named &#8220;Skinny Joey&#8221; Merlino has a story to tell us. Remember The Mob? Think they\u2019re gone? Not so fast there, kids: this article says they&#8217;re not only still here (surprise, surprise!), but they&#8217;re also involved in politics.\u00a0 This is <em>so very LBJ<\/em> in the 1950s and 1960s in Texas&#8230;.!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buffalochronicle.com\/2020\/11\/14\/exclusive-how-a-philly-mob-boss-stole-the-election-and-why-he-may-flip-on-joe-biden\/\">https:\/\/buffalochronicle.com\/2020\/11\/14\/exclusive-how-a-philly-mob-boss-stole-the-election-and-why-he-may-flip-on-joe-biden\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 \u00a0The innermost circles of the American mafia are abuzz.\u00a0 The Boss of the Philly mob \u2014 \u2018<strong>Skinny Joey\u2019 Merlino<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 is taking a victory strut, hobnobbing around the highest echelons of old-time mafia folk, mostly in Florida, describing what may have been the heist of the century: the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The feat is drawing praise from far-flung corners of the Italian American business community, which sees the thanks of a grateful administration as key to the revival of the community\u2019s political influence.<\/p>\n<p>But an associate says that Merlino might just be willing to flip on\u00a0<strong>Joe Biden\u00a0<\/strong>and the Pennsylvania political operatives who ordered up some 300,000 election ballots marked for Biden.\u00a0 The source alleges that Merlino and a lean team of associates manufactured those ballots at a rate of $10 per ballot \u2014 a whopping $3 million for three days of work.\u00a0 They were then packaged into non-descript cardboard boxes and dropped off outside the Philadelphia Convention Center. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>Anyone surprised by this?<\/p>\n<p>Nah\u2026. Me, neither!<\/p>\n<p>Get a big cuppa coffee and a snack, and read the entire article. It&#8217;s a hoot!<\/p>\n<p>I would not mind having Skinny Joey on my side if I needed someone like that. He knows how to organize crime pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story comes to us from the Buffalo Chronicle. It seems that a Philadelphia mobster named &hellip; <a title=\"Boss Tweed Would Be So Proud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107323\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boss Tweed Would Be So Proud<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,442,478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-america","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107324,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107323\/revisions\/107324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}