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“If You Hang With A Rat, You’re A Rat!” - Joey Merlino REVEALS How He Beat RICO Cases & Stayed Loyal

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Joey Merlino breaks down his personal code, loyalty, and why he refuses to associate with informants, even within his own family. He reflects on beating multiple RICO cases, growing up in South Philly, and how his upbringing shaped his views on respect, trust, and betrayal.

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I'm so sick of this. Working like a dog and being treated worse. Yorkshire to New York. Or climbers, you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4. Stream now. You beat three Rico cases, right, if I'm in the mistake. Maybe four. Three or four?

0:55.5

I still don't know where Rico is.

0:56.5

I still don't know what... I had three fucking cases. They named it after an Italian guy. They made it after an Italian guy. Rico. Rico. Who the fucks Rico? He keeps getting beaten up, apparently, if it's... So three or four times, the seven alleged murders

1:13.0

that you're saying

1:13.5

you got to quit it on so to me when i met with sunny francis and i don't know what thoughts you have

1:20.2

about sunny when i met with sunny 30 sonny or michael not michael sunny oh sunny the father

1:25.9

sunny did i don't know what his time is.

1:28.3

He did.

1:28.9

52, 53 years?

1:29.8

60 years.

1:31.3

He did a lot of time.

1:32.0

He did a lot of time.

1:33.0

What do you think about Sonny?

1:34.4

Listen, the guy was a great guy. He did his time, kept his mouth shut. but when his son put people in jail,

1:41.4

if you condone a rat,

1:42.4

if I know the way I lived,

1:43.6

the way I was brought up,

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