Leonetti and other Scarfo family turncoats like Nick Caramandi, Tommy Delgiorno, and Yogi Merlino would permanently damage the Philadelphia mob.

Joseph Scafidi was given a $500-a-week job working as a numbers runner, and Charles White and Nicholas Caramandi were formally inducted into the Philadelphia mob.

"Brotherly Love" is about two young men who grow up in the bloody world of the Philadelphia mob, a land of death, betrayal and retribution.

Mr. Testa, then head of the Philadelphia mob, was killed during internal mob warfare in 1981, as had been his predecessor, Angelo Bruno, the year before.

The formerly powerful Philadelphia mob has been in disarray since the killing in 1980 of its longtime boss, Angelo Bruno.

Philip C. Testa, crime boss of the Philadelphia mob and nicknamed "The Chicken Man", was murdered by a car bomb as he attempted to walk into his home at 2117 Porter Street.

The 2002 PBS animated series Liberty's Kids showed characters James and Sarah witnessing a British sailor being tarred and feathered by a Philadelphia mob.

The story of the F.B.I. informant Ron Previte and the Philadelphia mob.

New Jersey gambling officials want the man reputed to be the leader of the Philadelphia mob, Joseph A. Ligambi, 63, barred from entering Atlantic City casinos.

Asked to list his moneymaking activities in the Philadelphia mob, where he had risen to the No. 2 position, Mr. Leonetti included "extorting money from drug dealers."