"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Key Takeaways: Philip “The Chicken Man” Testa rose to power in the Philadelphia mafia after Angelo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

Mafia documentaries have clogged the airwaves for decades, but a new one coming to Netflix on Wednesday sets a new standard. Multiple docuseries, generally seen on basic cable, have traditionally ...

Federal grand jury report paints a picture of La Cosa Nostra as alive and well. Reputed boss of the Philadelphia mob Joseph ‘Uncle Joe’ Ligambi, center, along with two unidentified men exit federal ...

The infamous mafia boss, John Stanfa, is the subject of a new docuseries by Netflix titled Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia. Stanfa, who was born in Sicily, Italy, headed the Philadelphia mafia ...

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia chronicles the crime war between him and Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino in the 1990s In 1996, Stanfa was sentenced to life in prison Netflix is revisiting ...

Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino is one of the subjects of Netflix's 'Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia' Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

Or here was Salvatore Profaci, a New York mobster brought in to quietly settle a dispute that had gone public after mob lawyer Salvatore Avena filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his mobbed-up ...

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino. When longtime boss Nicky Scarfo's reign fell in the ...