“No Desire For Revenge？” - Joey Merlino SHUTS DOWN Retaliation Rumors After Mikey Chang Mob Hit
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The story of a man who does not want to seek revenge on the man who killed his best friend, the one and only Michael Cangolini. The story of how a guy who is feared, loved, and respected has no desire to seek vengeance on the guy that killed his brother.
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So is it true that the war that happened, mob wars that happened in the 80s, whatever the year was, could have been 80s, 90s,
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when it happened, his brother, Joey, who went and sided with Stamfa, who was the boss that they sent from Sicily,
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he came to try to bring the business back to the old ways of just making money and that's all they were doing.
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I know me and Michael were walking down the street, a drive-by.
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If his arm was down, I guess, you know, he was big.
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Do you never want her to seek vengeance and find out who did?
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I'm trying to see because your birthday just happened, right?
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A guy who is feared, loved, and respected has no desire to want to seek vengeance on the guy that killed his best friend, his brother.
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No desire to want to have somebody that took at them.
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I mean, everything ties back to his brother that killed Michael, your right-hand guy, your best friend.
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And you had no desire to want to go back and take that guy out?
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And at the funeral, cameras on you, zooming in on you,
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and everyone's trying to size you up to say, you know, Stanford's winning,
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you know, the war, and, you know, these young guys that are coming up,
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Joey Merlino is now afraid, and he's afraid of Stanford now,
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and zoom in and zoom in and zoom in and even closer on your eyes.
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I don't know what the question was, but you told him to F off.
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Like, you really had no desire to want to talk to anybody.
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What were you thinking in that moment at the funeral?
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Just mourning our friend, you know, worry about his family.
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So if your father is the father that I think he is, my assumption,
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if he said, you know, shake someone's hands, you know, be respectful.
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He stood in front of the funeral home as if to say, I'm still here.
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Listen to his response when we asked him to comment on the shooting.
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I don't know. I don't know. Fucking news, fake news.
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So for me, if we go back to, you know, with Pops.
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But you have to go back to what you're saying about these shootings.
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But to me, if the DNA of what your father might,
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what I'm understanding from the people in South Philly, what the code was,
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I would say if anybody does anything to your brother,
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you better make sure you get him by the end of the day.
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Would that be a right assumption of something your father would tell you?
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If me and you were at a bar and you're getting in a fight, I'm helping you.
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Who was not Billy Vesey, because that's the older brother, right?
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Billy was, yeah, maybe my age or a year or two younger.
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So Billy seemed like he wanted to do the right thing.
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And then Johnny, in this picture, Johnny's the one on the right.
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billy's got the tux on billy's got the tux on yeah so
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johnny goes out there and i think johnny allegedly a little bit reckless he's going out there he has
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no problem taking somebody out i think he got his mother died at 41 when he was 16 years old
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and he never met his father they were all junkies right and they were dope fiends
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both of them or he was not billy he was the mother the whole family oh the whole family
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not billy though i don't think billy was so billy was a good kid yeah i think johnny's still around
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so johnny uh allegedly got arrested 60 plus time before turning 18 so eventually he gets out when
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he gets out they come up to him they give him a thousand dollars to take somebody out and he goes
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out for ten thousand dollars and they burn up the car which the car was a leased car if i'm not
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mistaken and he burns in the car fbi comes and says what are you doing the license plate is still
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here goes back to the guy that leased the car they know who it is they go find him that's ties
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to stanfa and they're like no you're tied to this and then eventually through him they realize he's
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gonna flip and he's gonna go testify against uh the whole crew everybody johnny was and then that
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day before he was gonna do that they took out his brother billy all this stuff adds up as all these
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stories are kind of adding up or no yeah i know yeah okay i was in philly yeah i got charged with
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it you got charged with it yeah and got acquitted and got acquitted i found not guilty of course
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ralph natale lied what did ralph say ralph said you were behind it yeah me and my friends but we
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got acquitted he said that after the murder we had a meeting at my grandmother's house 927 jackson
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and um you know the bullshit the movie shit he hugged me kissed me it sounds good you know in
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court but come the final he didn't realize and and the u.s attorneys in philly they believed
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anything he said they never investigated this was 1995 i think it was or four 95 94
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that we had a meeting in 927 jack street my grandmother's house my grandmother sold the
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house three years prior to chinese people asian people it was impossible for us to be in that
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house so we subpoenaed my we went my lawyer went got the deed to the house that the house was sold
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three years prior and we called the asian guy i don't know what fuck he is he came on the stand
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we had to get a translator he said it's impossible they were never in my house i don't even know them
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i never seen them in my life and they could have never been in my house that day he lied the jury
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he quit us in five minutes what did natali say his beef was you know when you guys were in
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prison together he asked you hey take care of my family when i'm out they all got the same story
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everyone they must give him a pamphlet when they flip when you get on the stand say this
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they didn't give my fuck i gotta give his family money for i don't know him i lent his son-in-law
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my motorcycle when i was in jail this is a true story i met him in jail i i like motorcycle i had
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You know, when I get out, when I ride, I love bikes.
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He said to me, my son-in-law, Bobby, he loves bikes.
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He said he wants to go to bike week or something.
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The jury said, if you could pull up the article.
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How the fuck did they even bring him on a stand?
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They said, the jury said, we didn't believe one word he said.
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He testified against me, and they got to let him out.
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He admitted that he said he don't know how many people he killed.
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He was getting, and his son was already in jail for drugs.
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He testified against me to let his son right out, and they let him out.
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nice country right yeah i'm trying to think because to me you know if going back to
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father would say if anybody does anything to your brother you know you have to you can't let the
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market believe that they can touch you or the people on your crew right i mean in the street
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court even in business there is no crew we just we're just friends i mean you just want to make
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like it's this it's that i get that but even to us like in business joey if if in business uh
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there's a there's a quote i'll read it to you maybe you'll like this quote and when i read this
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quote it kind of reminds me of maybe the code you followed no friend ever served me and no enemy
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ever wronged me whom i have had i have not repaid in full let me read it again no friend ever served
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me and no enemy ever wronged me whom i have not repaid in full lucius cornelia sula self-written
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epitaph so i see you as one of these guys i see as a guy it's if he's your friend he's 100% loyal
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i have your back for the rest of your life but also see if you're an enemy you cross me you have
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to worry about me for the rest of your life if you don't build that reputation you you know this
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joe you know yeah i mean he killed my friend so they killed your your friend and you guys don't
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retaliate nope and we got charged with it and we got to quit it yeah my name is joey merlino
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