PhillyMafiaHistory.com - The Last Mouthpiece (2001)

Brilliant legal mind Robert “Bobby” Simone wrote a candid history of his legal career that spanned nearly 50 years in Philadelphia. He represented defendants in and outside of the Philadelphia Mob, often in notoriously famous cases that made national news. Simone also told of his own trials, when he was prosecuted by the federal government, which he said was because he was a “mob lawyer.” His history gives an account of the pre-RICO days and when law and order were compromised over drinks in Center City Lounges. There, judges, bailsmen, cops, and prosecuting lawyers hung out with the underworld figures, which make us think that cases were personal vendettas rather than safety nets against harm to the general public.

Readers will be entertained by Simone’s wit and how he tacked the government witnesses to a wall with his strategies. He proved how Nicky “Crow” Caramandi and Tommy DelGiorno, hailed as “stars” for being the first “mob rats” to come forward, lied and lied again. Simone also used Frank Friel, then a Philadelphia police officer, to set some defendants free from their charges in the murder of Salvatore Testa. (Friel also admitted to being a witness for the defense in Breaking the Mob.) Simone’s book prophetically divulged into the Pelullo brothers’ association with the Scarfo Family, a fact that destroyed Frank Friel in 2005. Governor Edward G Rendell has named Friel to head the Gaming Commission, but Friel’s work as an investigator hired by the Pelullos was publicized in a series of alarming news pieces in August of 2005. Friel should have hired a lawyer like Simone: “The Philadelphia Daily News’” investigative reporters Joseph Daughen, Bob Warner and Chris Brennan won awards for producing publications from the government that Friel had access to but did not use about the Pelullos. Rendell withdrew Friel’s name. Simone’s book got more accolades on credibility. Case Closed.

	Brilliant legal mind Robert “Bobby” Simone wrote a candid history of his legal career that spanned nearly 50 years in Philadelphia. He represented defendants in and outside of the Philadelphia Mob, often in notoriously famous cases that made national news. Simone also told of his own trials, when he was prosecuted by the federal government, which he said was because he was a “mob lawyer.” His history gives an account of the pre-RICO days and when law and order were compromised over drinks in Center City Lounges. There, judges, bailsmen, cops, and prosecuting lawyers hung out with the underworld figures, which make us think that cases were personal vendettas rather than safety nets against harm to the general public. Readers will be entertained by Simone’s wit and how he tacked the government witnesses to a wall with his strategies. He proved how Nicky “Crow” Caramandi and Tommy DelGiorno, hailed as “stars” for being the first “mob rats” to come forward, lied and lied again. Simone also used Frank Friel, then a Philadelphia police officer, to set some defendants free from their charges in the murder of Salvatore Testa. (Friel also admitted to being a witness for the defense in Breaking the Mob.) Simone’s book prophetically divulged into the Pelullo brothers’ association with the Scarfo Family, a fact that destroyed Frank Friel in 2005. Governor Edward G Rendell has named Friel to head the Gaming Commission, but Friel’s work as an investigator hired by the Pelullos was publicized in a series of alarming news pieces in August of 2005. Friel should have hired a lawyer like Simone: “The Philadelphia Daily News’” investigative reporters Joseph Daughen, Bob Warner and Chris Brennan won awards for producing publications from the government that Friel had access to but did not use about the Pelullos. Rendell withdrew Friel’s name. Simone’s book got more accolades on credibility. Case Closed.








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