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The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Episode 157: John Stanfa

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

John Stanfa was an old school Sicilian mobster who emigrated to the US in the 1960's. He began his career as a fairly lowly mobster before becoming a driver for Philly mob boss Angelo Bruno. After serving prison time in the 80's, Stanfa found a spot to wiggle his way in power of the Philly Mob and it would eventually lead to a war on the streets of Philadelphia between two rival factions, one led by Stanfa and one led by Philly upstart gangster Joey Merlino. In the first 15 minutes of the show we delve into some relevant Mob news.
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0:00.0

You're going to be. What's up everybody? Welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down. I'm your host, Jeff Day to

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and this is episode 157. As always, if you're enjoying this podcast please make sure you hit that five-star

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rating and leave us a review of what you think of the show we welcome all of our

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friends here in on Spotify Google pods iTunes wherever you're listening

0:46.1

Thank you for checking out the show as always this is episode as I said one hundred and fifty seven and we got a good show as always play for you today.

0:56.0

We are going to delve into the interesting life of Hillie one-time boss John Stanford.

1:02.0

And we talk a lot about John Stafa,

1:05.0

but he's actually way more connected to the mob

1:08.0

than you might think.

1:09.0

A lot of people think of him as what he was here in America,

1:12.0

a leader of kind of a rag tag group of guys who took on Joey

1:16.1

Melino in the young Turks in the 90s. But, truth is, John Stamford was very connected with the five families in New York and I'm growing up in Sicily he was very close.

1:28.0

He was actually rumored to be a made member of the Sicilia mafia and comes from a very rich history as far as the mob in his area of Sicily that he was from in Kakamo.

1:38.9

So we're going to do that today.

1:42.0

Before we do that though, I want to get into a little mob news.

1:46.6

Anytime things happen, I like to get into them.

1:49.6

A couple of stories here as we kind of start off the show and before I do that I want to remind you

1:56.0

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2:12.3

things here is we get into the show. First things first.

2:17.3

A Genevese Kappa regime, Anthony Romanello, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for a assault that he was involved in or allegedly

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