When the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia was arrested in the early 1990s, it ignited a violent battle for power in the City of Brotherly Love. A new Netflix docuseries, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia isn't the first city that comes to mind when thinking of the Mafia, but, as depicted in Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia, the City of Brotherly Love was a hotbed of organized ...

Netflix subscribers have begun streaming Mob War, a fresh docuseries that explores a brutal power struggle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1990s. The three-part Netflix production examines ...

A general view shows the skyline of Philadelphia at sunset from South Street Bridge on Schuylkill river. (Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images) (PHILADELPHIA) — More than 26 years after a man was ...

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 ...

John Stanfa found himself in a crime war with Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino throughout the 1990s By 1990, mob veteran John Stanfa took over from Nicky Scarfo as the leader of the Philadelphia family ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) George Anastasia, Rowan University (THE CONVERSATION) The bloody mob war that is the ...

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia outlines the battle for power among rival mafiosos in the 1990s. One of its subjects, Joey Merlino, was convicted on racketeering charges in 2001. He ...