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In this episode of Gangland Wire, I sit down with retired FBI agent Geoff Kelly, a specialist in art theft investigations who inherited one of the most notorious unsolved cases in American history—the 1990 robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He recently wrote a book about this theft titled 13 Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of Mob, Murder, and the World’s Largest Art Heist. Kelly's law enforcement career began as a New York City transit police officer before transitioning to the FBI. Like many agents, he initially sought violent crime work. Instead, he was assigned to economic crimes before eventually transferring to a violent crime squad. It was there that he encountered the Gardner case—a cold case largely untouched by senior agents at the time. The robbery itself remains extraordinary: two men posing as police officers gained entry to the museum and stole 13 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt. More than three decades later, none of the works have been recovered. Inside the Gardner Heist Geoff explains how art theft is often misunderstood. Popular culture portrays refined, sophisticated criminals orchestrating elaborate capers. The reality, he says, is usually more opportunistic and frequently violent. Art theft often intersects with organized crime, drug trafficking, and even homicide. Massachusetts has a documented history of art-related crimes, and several individuals connected to the Gardner investigation met violent ends. The criminal underworld surrounding stolen art is less about wealthy collectors hiding paintings in private vaults and more about leverage—using artwork as collateral in criminal negotiations. The FBI's Art Crime Evolution Following the 2003 looting of Iraq's National Museum during the Baghdad invasion, the FBI formalized its Art Crime Team. Kelly discusses how intelligence gathering, informants, and international cooperation became central tools in recovering stolen artifacts. He emphasizes that solving art crimes often depends less on forensic breakthroughs and more on human intelligence. Informants remain essential, especially in cases where organized crime overlaps with high-value theft. Kelly also discusses his upcoming book, 13 Perfect Fugitives, which explores the intersections of mobsters, murder, and the illicit art market. Organized Crime and the Reality of Stolen Art Drawing on my own experience working organized crime in Kansas City, I found clear parallels between traditional mob rackets and art theft networks. The same structures—intimidation, secrecy, and violence—apply. Once a painting disappears into criminal circulation, it becomes a liability as much as an asset. Kelly challenges the myth that thieves profit easily from masterpieces. High-profile works are difficult to sell. The black-market art world is volatile and dangerous. In many cases, the artwork becomes bargaining collateral rather than a cash windfall. A Case Still Waiting for Closure More than 30 years later, the Gardner Museum still displays empty frames where the paintings once hung. Kelly remains committed to the idea that public awareness may eventually generate new leads.  The Gardner heist stands as both a cultural tragedy and a criminal mystery—one that continues to intersect with organized crime, violence, and international intrigue. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, you guys, Gary Jenkins back here in studio Gangland Wire. Y’all know me. I’m a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and now podcaster and documentary filmmaker. I have in the studio today… Jeff Kelly, he’s a now-retired FBI agent. He was an expert in recovering stolen artifacts and art pieces. He was involved. He wasn’t involved in the original theft of the Boston art theft, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but he ended up inheriting that case. So welcome, Jeff. Hi. Thanks, Gary. Nice to be here. And guys, I need to mention this right off the bat. Jeff has a book, 13 Perfect Fugitives, The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World’s Largest Art Heist. Be out on Amazon. I’ll have links down below in the show notes if you want to get that book. I think it would be pretty interesting. I was telling Jeff, I just interviewed Joe Ford, the million-dollar detective, the guy that goes after classic cars, and I read that book. I love these kind of caper kind of books and caper crimes. Those are the ones I like the best is the caper crimes. And Jeff is an expert at working caper crimes. And that’s what these are, capers. So Jeff, how did you get into this? Now you came on the FBI. You were a policeman before, I believe. So tell the guys a little bit about yourself and your FBI career. Yeah, I started out with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police in New York City. It was a transit cop. I did that for three years. And then I got into the FBI in October of 95. [1:30] And my goal was always, I wanted to work violent crime. That’s what drew me to law enforcement in the first place, working bank robberies and kidnappings and fugitives. I had to do my five years on working economic crime, telemarketing fraud. It was interesting, but not all that exciting. And finally in 2000, I got my transfer to the violent crime squad. And I loved working it. And I did it for my entire career from then on, right up until my retirement in 2024. But back then, art theft was considered a major theft violation, [2:01] and it was worked by the Violent Crime Squad. And so in 2002… My supervisor dumped this old moribund cold case in my lap. It was the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. [2:15] Nobody wanted it on the squad, so they figured, let’s give it to the new guy. I was ecstatic to get it because I’d heard about it. I went to school in Boston. I went to Boston University and graduated the year before it happened, but I knew about it. [2:28] That’s how I started working this case, this particular case, and then the following year during the U.S., there was a, the U.S. And coalition forces invaded Baghdad in Iraq. And during a 36-hour period, more than 15,000 objects of very, very important cultural history were looted from the National Museum of Iraq. And it’s really one of the most important museums in the world in terms of our shared history. Kind of the cradle of civilization over there in the Tigers and Euphrates River. Yeah, and that was the time when the FBI kind of belatedly realized that there was no art crime team to investigate this. And of course, FBI agents have been working art theft like any other property crime since the beginning of the FBI’s existence, but there was no codified team. So they did a canvas for the team in 2004 and I applied for it because at this point I’d been working the Gardner case for a couple of years and really was fascinated by it and made the team. And so then over the next 20 years, we continued to expand the team both in size and in scope and in our intelligence base and knowledge base. And when I left the Bureau in 2024, it was and still is a tremendous team with a lot of very dedicated and professional agents and professional support. [3:51] Now, guys, if you don’t know about the Isabella Stewart Gardner case, there was a Netflix documentary on it a few years ago. It was an art museum in Boston. [4:01] Two guys showed up. They had Boston police uniforms on, and they got in. They basically, it was an armed robbery, and they took control of the museum. The guards were in there late at night and took these really valuable paintings out. I believe you told me earlier they were Remington paintings. We’ll get into that. And it was a violent crime. It was an armed robbery of paintings, and you told me about other armed robberies of paintings. I think you got into some other armed robberies of paintings. You always think of, as you mentioned before, the Thomas Crown Affair character that goes out and does these sophisticated art thefts. That’s not always true, is it? It’s never that way, but it doesn’t matter. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Everybody wants to believe that art thefts are pulled off by the Thomas Crown Affairs and these gentlemen thieves repel in through skylights and do all that fancy stuff, put it in their underground lair. That’s just not the way it works. But if you look to art theft. [4:55] Massachusetts really is a cradle of art theft in this country, and it’s very unique. The first armed robbery of a museum occurred in Boston in 1972. It was committed by a guy named Al Monday, who was a prolific art thief. And they stole four pieces from the Worcester Art Museum in central Massachusetts with a gun. They ended up shooting the guard. And one of the pieces that they stole was a Rembrandt called St. Bartholomew. [5:26] And in keeping with the milieu of true art thieves, the paintings were stored on a pig farm just over the state line in Rhode Island. And when this Connecticut safecracker by the name of Chucky Carlo, who was looking at some serious time in prison for some of the crimes that he committed, when he found out that Al Monday had these paintings, he just simply kidnapped Al Monday and stuck a gun in his ribs and said he would kill him if he didn’t give him the paintings. which is no honor among thieves. And Al turned over the paintings, Chucky returned them, and he got a very significant break on his pending jail sentence. Right here in 1972, Boston thieves see Rembrandt as a valuable get-out-of-jail-free card. [6:09] And then if we jump forward three years to 1975, there was a very skilled art thief, really a master thief by the name of Miles Conner. I interviewed Miles for my book. It was very gracious of him to sit down with me for it. And he had robbed or committed a burglary of the Woolworth estate up in Maine, the family, the five and dime family magnets. And he got caught for it because he tried to sell those paintings to an undercover FBI agent. And so he was looking at 12 years in prison for it. And he was out on bail. And he reached out to a family friend who was a state trooper. And he asked him, how can I get away with this one? How can I get out of this? Because he was in serious trouble. The trooper’s response was meant to be hyperbolic. The trooper said, Miles, it’s going to take you a Rembrandt to get out of this one. [6:57] And so Miles said, okay, I’ll go get a Rembrandt. And he got a crew together and they did a daylight smash and grab at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, just across the street from the Gardner. And they stole Rembrandt, the girl in a gold-trimmed cloak. [7:12] And he was able to return that painting. Instead of doing 12 years, he did 28 months. And he even managed to, he told me he even managed to get the $10,000 reward in the process. So you have this atmosphere in Massachusetts that Rembrandts are a valuable commodity, right? They can help you out in a jam. And so I think it’s no coincidence that in 1990, when the Gardner Museum heist came down, the Gardner Museum had this array of motion sensors all throughout the museum. It would alert to wherever you went, every gallery, hallway, whatever. [7:49] And we know from these motion sensors that after, as you said, the two guys went in disguised as cops and bluffed their way into the museum, they made a beeline for the Dutch room, which is the room of all things Rembrandt. They stole three Rembrandts. They stole a fourth piece called Landscape with an Obelisk, which was actually by Govard Flink, but it had been misattributed to Rembrandt until the mid 80s. And then they took a large Rembrandt oil-on-panel off the wall and it was recovered the next morning leaning against a piece of furniture. We believe they just overlooked it in the dark. So out of the 13 pieces taken, three were Rembrandt, a fourth was misattributed to Rembrandt, and there was going to be a 14th piece taken, which was also Rembrandt. It definitely falls into that theory that this was going to be a hold-on to these pieces for a while and see if you can use them for a break. [8:48] Interesting. Now, back in the 70s, for example, when somebody would work in an art robbery like that or an art theft, you got your tried and true ways of working a crime. You got to have sources, you got to have witnesses, and hopefully you can get a crime like this. You can get a source that says, hey, this guy, we had a guy in Kansas City that he was a fence for these kinds of guys. He had an antique auction and he took all this stuff and got it somewhere else. So at the time, just use your regular police methods. And what changed over the years as you’ve done this? Yeah, certainly we’ve become much more sophisticated with the techniques that we use. But at the end of the day, it’s always still going to be intelligence. But I found from working my entire career in violent crime, virtually my whole career in violent crime, the sources are crucial. Having a good informant can make and break a case. And working art theft investigations, you’re certainly going to have the same types of fences of informants, fences for stolen property and what they’re hearing about what organized crime guys are doing and what drug guys are doing. But it also opened up a whole new avenue of sources for me as working in art investigations, because now you’ve got pawn shops and gallery owners and auction houses, and they’re in a position to know when not only when stolen artwork is coming in, but also fakes and forgeries. We spoke about this, that. [10:16] Somebody comes in with one valuable piece that would be very difficult for somebody in his or her position to come across one piece like this, let alone a dozen of them. That really points to probably a fake. And so that’s really the key to solving these things is just having a good intelligence base who’s going to let us know about when something comes up that’s either stolen or it’s been forged. [10:43] Brings up a question. In my mind, did you ever work a gallery owner or a gallery [10:48] that then would filter in, knowingly filter in some fakes every once in a while? They couldn’t do it 100% of the time, but you could certainly make some extra money by filtering fakes out of it because many people would get it and they’d never know. Nobody would ever know. Listen, it is a really difficult thing when you’re working these types of crimes because unlike bank robber, you go into a bank and you stick them up with a gun and take them on. It’s not up to the government to be able to prove at trial that you knew that the bank was insured by the FDIC. You went in and you robbed it, you committed the offense. When you’re talking about interstate transportation of stolen property or possession of stolen property, there are what’s called specific intent crimes, meaning you have to prove the element of knowledge. You have to be able to prove that the person knew that that item was stolen. Not that it said it was stolen. and you had to show that they knew it. And that’s a really high hurdle to overcome. And typically what we do to try and prove that specific intent is we’re going to go through. [11:53] Recorded statements made to a source or to an undercover or emails or texts or something that we can show that this person knew that item was stolen. And so we would see that a lot in auction houses and galleries. There’s a lot of willful blindness where a lot of gallery owners and auction houses, they’re going to look the other way because it’s too lucrative to pass up. And in fact, in 2015, the art crime team, once we received information that ISIL or ISIS was using looted cultural property from Syria and Iraq as a form, a viable form of terrorism financing. And we put auction houses and gallery owners on notice in 2015, and we basically told them that if you’re selling objects of cultural patrimony or cultural heritage with a dubious provenance, like a wink and a nod, you may be unwittingly or wittingly funding terrorism. While we never charged anybody with it, hopefully it was an eye-opener that when you’re getting into this world, it’s not a victimless crime. There are very real victims involved. [13:07] And that’s one of the things that really is interesting about working our crime investigations. And I used to get ribbed by my friends who were not on the art crime team about [13:18] where like the wine and cheese squad were raised and everything. But our subjects are far from it. We’re dealing with organized crime, gangs, terrorists. This is no joke. These are serious individuals and the stakes are high. And in the Gardner case, three or four people that we believe were involved in the heist were murdered a year after the Gardner case crime occurred. Yeah, I was just going to go back to that a little bit, as we said before, a little bit like the Lufthansa case. All of a sudden, everybody that was involved in the theft. Started dropping like flies. So tell the guys about that. That is really interesting. [14:00] Yeah. So the two individuals that we believe went into the museum dressed as cops, just a week shy of the one-year anniversary, one of the guys was found dead in his apartment of an acute overdose of cocaine, intravenous. And his family admitted that he used Coke, but they said he was terrified of needles. He was scared of needles. So it really looked to be like a hotshot, an intentional overdose of cocaine. Two weeks later, the other guy who we believe went into the museum with him, his wife reported him missing. And a couple of weeks later, his bullet riddled body was recovered in the trunk of his car out by Logan Airport in East Boston. There was another member of that crew. These were all part of the same crew. This Carmelo Merlino, who was a Boston mobster, had an auto shop down in the Dorchester section of Boston. Another member of his crew, a guy named Bobby, six weeks after the heist, he brought in, he visited a jeweler in the downtown crossing jewelry district in Boston. He came in with this object and he unwrapped it. It was an eagle. [15:03] It was the finial from the Napoleonic flag that was stolen in the Gardner heist. And he asked the jeweler, how much is this thing worth? And the jeweler looked at it and he said, it’s worth nothing. Because he immediately recognized it as one of the people that had been stolen six weeks earlier from the Gardner heist. And then a few months later, Bobby was stabbed to death and nearly decapitated on the front porch of his house. And the responding police saw that his house had been broken into and ransacked like his killers had been looking for something. There was a fourth guy, Jimmy, who bragged to his girlfriend a few months after the heist that he had a couple of pieces from the Gardner Museum hidden in his attic. [15:47] And in February of 1990, 11 months after the heist, he was executed on his front porch in what the local police called a mob hit. So, yeah, these are the types of crimes that have a tendency to have a chilling effect on anybody who harbors any aspirations to come forward with information. Yeah, and we talked earlier a little bit about, like, the crime itself, and the statute of limitations is up on that, what you said, and the crime itself, but how we talked a little bit and explained to them about how this could be part of a RICO case. And you’ve got the murders and you’ve got the actual theft and whatever they did with the paintings, then maybe you could get over after a Bob boss as a Rico case. Tell the guys a little bit about doing that. Yeah. [16:32] I’ve heard it so many times in more than two decades that I worked the case and people would say, geez, why don’t people come forward? They’re just paintings. There are so many times they’re just paintings. They’re like, yeah, they are, but there’s two things about that. Number one, there’s some dead bodies on these paintings, three or four, and that there’s no statute of limitations for murder. And so if you implicate yourself in the theft or you implicate yourself in possessing or transporting these paintings at any time, the fear is that you’re then implicating yourself in a homicide. And the other aspect of this, which I think has a chilling effect, is the fact that transportation of stolen property is one of the predicate acts for RICO, racketeering influence corrupt organization case. And RICO is basically, Gary, is basically an entire organization is corrupt. Yeah. There’s no legitimate purpose. It’s what we think about the mob and the [17:27] FBI has taken down the mob in the past. So if you implicate yourself in stolen property and you’re part of organized crime, that’s one of the predicate acts for a RICO. And that’s basically life sentences. And so one of my goals in the years and years that I worked in this case was to try and convince people that you could come forward with information and the U S attorney’s offices, whether it’s up in Boston or new Haven or Philadelphia. [17:58] Would be willing to figure out a way to get the paintings back with immunity from prosecution for a RICO case. Look, that’s a high hurdle. That’s a high hurdle to convince somebody that if you come forward, you’re not going to get charged and you’re eligible for millions of dollars in reward. That’s a tough bill to swallow, but it’s the truth. I’m retired from the FBI now. I can tell you that it was, it’s a, it was, and still is a bona fide offer. And that’s one of the goals that I’ve always tried to impress on anyone is the opportunity to become a millionaire without going to jail. There you go, Jeff. Can you, now you’re not with the Bureau anymore. Can you go out, if you could go out and find them and bring them in, could you collect that reward? I would certainly hope so. [18:48] I can’t tell you how many of my friends thought that I had some of these paintings stashed in my basement. Waiting for retirement to go turn them in the next day. I think half the guys I worked with were expecting to see me pull into the parking lot of the FBI. [19:01] Big package, but no. But yeah, I suppose I could. By this point, I can tell you the amount of my very being that I put into this case over two days. Yeah. I just would love to see these paintings go back just because they need to be back at the museum. That’s where they belong. Now, these crimes, they seem, You said there’s a lot of murders attached to this. They seem a little boring. Did you have any exciting moments trying to pop anybody or do any surveillances? I know we did a big surveillance of a bunch of junkies that were going around stealing from small museums around the Midwest. And we follow them here in Kansas City. And they would have been pretty exciting had we had a confrontation with them. Did you have any exciting moments in this? It actually was a fascinating case. And for the first, there’s the really boring aspects of this job and tedious aspects. And I would say that in my, two decades working this case, I probably did, I don’t know, 50, 60, 70 consent searches, searching in attics and basements and crawling through crawl spaces and just getting sweaty and covered in cobwebs. But the break in the case for me came in 2009 when one of the guys who was part of Merlino’s crew who was deceased, his niece came forward to me and told me that the paintings. Some of them had been hidden up in this guy’s hide at his house up in Maine. I went up to Maine with Anthony Amore, who’s the director of security for the Gardner Museum. We worked on this case together for years. [20:29] And then we found that hide. And then we interviewed, right from there, we went and interviewed Guarenti. That’s the guy, Bobby Guarenti. We interviewed his widow and she broke down and admitted that he once showed her the paintings and she gave them to a guy down in Connecticut. And we identified that guy and we interviewed him. My name is Bobby Gentile. He’s a made member of the Philly Mob. He got straightened out with his crew back in the late 90s. [20:54] And he refused to cooperate. And then that’s where we really just started getting, using a lot of ingenuity to try and break it. And an agent down in the New Haven office, a guy by the name of Jamie Lawton, he joined our team and we started working this case. And he had a source who knew Gentile, Bobby Gentile, and the source started buying drugs from Gentile. Ah, there we go. We ended up arresting Gentile and we did a search warrant at his house. And it was crazy. Like we recovered, I want to say seven handguns, loaded handguns lying all over the place. He had a pump action shotgun hanging by the front door. He had high explosives. We had to evacuate the house and call him the bomb squad. But the interesting thing was he had the March 19th, 1990 edition of the Boston Herald with headlines about the Gardner heist and tucked inside that newspaper was a handwritten list of all the stolen items. With what looked like their black market values. This is in the house of a guy who swore up and down that he’d never heard of the Gardner Museum. And we were able to figure out who wrote the list. It was written by none other than Al Monday, who’s the guy that did the first armed robbery of a museum, of a Rembrandt. And we interviewed him and he told us that he wrote that list for Bobby Gentile and his buddy up in Maine, Bobby Garanti, because they had a buyer for the paintings and they wanted to know what they were worth. [22:24] So yeah, and then Gentile took 30 months. [22:28] He wouldn’t cooperate. And while he was incarcerated, we turned two of his closest friends to becoming sources. And so when he got out of prison in February or April of 2014, they started talking to him and talked about the gardener and they said they might know somebody who’d want to buy him. That’s how we then introduced an undercover agent. Gentile was introduced to Tony, this undercover FBI agent. Over six months, they had long talks about selling the paintings. Unfortunately, before Gentile would sell the paintings, he wanted to do a drug deal first, which we couldn’t allow to happen. We can’t let drugs walk on the street. So we had to take it down. And although we’d seized all these guns from Gentile back in 2012, he told the sources the FBI didn’t get all of his guns. Because of that disturbing comment, one of the sources asked Gentile if he could buy a gun for him. And Gentile sold him a loaded 38. So we arrested him again. And he still refused to cooperate. I don’t respect what he did for a living or a lot of the things that he did, but you do have to respect his adherence to his values. However, misguided they may have been, he took the code of omerta, the code of silence to heart, and he took it to his grave. He died, I think, in 2021 after going to prison a second time. [23:50] While we never got any paintings back, it was a tremendous ride, and I’m confident they will come back. It’s just going to be a question of when. Yeah, that kind of brings up the question that you hear people speculate. Did you ever run across this? Is there actually any rich old guys or an Arab sheik or somebody that buys stuff like this and then really keeps it and never shows it to anybody? Does that unicorn really exist? everybody wants that to be true i know virtually it’s not yeah there’s there’s never been a case of some wealthy what we call the doctor no theory some some reclusive billionaire with his underground lair filled with all the illicit stolen treasures of the world yeah that’s it’s never happened yeah i guess you never say never but but no look the majority statistically about three-quarters of everyone that collects art in this country does it for, and I assume it’s probably worldwide, does it for the investment potential. There’s a lot of money to be made in collecting art. It rarely, if ever, drops in value. So that’s why people collect art. If there’s somebody who has a particular piece that they want so badly that they’re going to commission its theft, it’s more the stuff of Hollywood. It could happen, but we’ve never seen that happen yet. Interesting. [25:14] We did have one case here where we had a medical doctor and he had it on the wall of his house. And it was, I believe it was a Western artist named Remington that these junkies stole out of Omaha. But it was such a minor piece that he could show it to anybody and they wouldn’t. They would say, oh, that’s cool. You got a Remington. [25:30] There’s plenty of those around. And he could afford a real deal Remington anyhow. So it wasn’t that big a deal. And that’s really what it comes down to is that art, high-end art does get stolen. It gets stolen quite often. The art market is about $60 billion, and the FBI, we estimated about $6 to $8 billion of that is illicit, whether it’s theft or fakes and forgeries. It’s a tremendous market, but it’s mostly second and third tier items. [26:02] Really valuable, well-known pieces. They do get stolen, but that’s the easy part. The easy part is stealing it. The hard part is monetizing it. That’s why you very rarely see recidivism among art thieves, high-end art thieves, because you do it once, and now you’re stuck with the thing. It’s easier to steal something else. You got to go out and boost fur coats and stuff to make a living. Exactly. Do a jewelry store robbery down there and make a living. And that’s exactly the point. That’s why you’re seeing a sea change in terms of art thefts, museum thefts. The Louvre was a great example of that. Dresden green vault robbery where 100 million euros in gems were stolen back in 2019 yeah. [26:45] Gems and jewelry, it can be broken down. It’s going to greatly diminish their value, but you can recut a gem. You can melt down the setting. You can monetize it for a greatly diminished value, but at least you can monetize it. You can’t cut up a Rembrandt into smaller pieces. [27:02] It’s only valuable as a whole complete piece. Yeah. I’m just thinking about that. We got a couple of guys, Jerry Scalise and Art Rachel in Chicago, flew to London, robbed a really valuable piece, the Lady Churchill’s diamond or something, I don’t remember, but really valuable piece and mailed it to somebody on their way to the airport and then got caught when they got back to Chicago and brought back to London and did 14 years in England and they never gave up that piece and nobody could, it never appeared anywhere, but it was just cut up and they didn’t make hardly any money off of it. Yeah. Look, there’s a, there’s much more profitable ways to. Yeah. To make an illicit living than stealing high-end artwork, but it does still get stolen. And that’s one of the cruel ironies when you’re talking about art theft is if somebody has a $20,000 piece of jewelry or a very expensive watch, they’re most likely going to lock it up in a safe in their bedroom or something. But you have a $10 million piece of artwork, you probably got it on the mantle. You’ve got it over the fireplace or in the front foyer of your house and probably doesn’t have a passive alarm system protecting it or security screws to keep it from being taken off the wall because people want to show it off. Yeah. It’s way too enticing. [28:24] Really? So, yes, you need to keep the word out there and keep this in people’s minds. And I’m sure the museum tries to do this in some ways in order, hopefully, that maybe somebody will say, oh. Yeah. [28:38] I think I saw that somewhere in this news program or on this podcast. [28:42] I’ll put some pictures on the podcast when I end up editing this. No, please do, Kerry. And that’s the thing. That’s the basis for the title of my book is it really is a fugitive investigation. And that’s how I work this case is fugitives and perfect fugitives because they’re not like their human counterparts. They’re not going to get tripped up on the silly things that we need to do as human beings, getting a driver’s license or whatnot. Yeah. [29:09] And so that’s how I worked the case. The FBI was really, I was always impressed with the FBI’s support that they gave me on this investigation. We did billboard campaigns and social media and a lot of things to get these images out there to the public, hoping it might resonate with somebody. And that’s really my goal for this book. I felt it should be written. I felt it’s an important case. Certainly, it’s something that I wanted to write about. It’s something that’s very important to me. [29:42] But it’s yet another attempt to apprehend these fugitives. And I’m hopeful that somebody, it might resonate with somebody. Somebody’s going to see something. And there’s so much disinformation and misinformation that’s out there in the media about this case. People are endlessly, all these armchair detectives, and I don’t say it in a deprecating way. Good for them. Work as hard as you can. But if you want to work this case from your armchair, great. but you should be going off accurate information because there’s a lot of bad information that’s out there on the internet. And if you want to help out, if you want to collect that $10 million reward, great, but you should be going off the most accurate factual information that’s available. Yeah. And you probably ought to go down to the deep seamy underbelly of Philadelphia or Boston or somewhere and get involved with a mob and then work your way up and make different cocaine deals and everything. And eventually you might be trusted enough that some might say, oh yeah, I’ve got those in this basement. I would suggest there’s better hobbies. [30:47] That could be hazardous to your health. I wouldn’t recommend it. Yes, it could. All right. Jeffrey Kelly, the book is 13 Perfect Tuesdays. Those are the paintings that were stolen that you’ll see on the podcast on the YouTube channel. The true story of the mob, murder, and the world’s largest art heist. Jeffrey, thanks so much for coming on to tell us about this. Thanks, Gary. Thanks for having me.

Paolo Gulisano"L'abolizione dell'uomo"C.S. LewisRiflessioni sull'educazione con particolare riferimento all'insegnamento dell'inglese negli ultimi anni delle scuole elementariAdelphi Edizioniwww.adelphi.itTraduzione di Edoardo RialtiUn grido di allarme ironico e appassionato, nella tradizione di Swift e Chesterton, contro gli esiti sinistri dell'idolatria tecnologica.L'approdo al cristianesimo, per Lewis – «un pagano convertito in un mondo di puritani apostati», come lui stesso amava definirsi –, affonda le radici in tutto quanto nella filosofia, nei miti e nella letteratura lo aveva ammaliato, quasi che Platone e le saghe nordiche, i Salmi e le avventure di Artù e Merlino fossero indissolubilmente intrecciati. Ed è a difesa dell'antica sapienza che Lewis, con queste conferenze tenute al King's College di Newcastle nel 1943 e presto divenute un caposaldo della critica alla modernità e al suo culto della tecnologia, volle lanciare una generale chiamata alle armi. Prendendo le mosse dall'innocuo paragrafo di una grammatica per le elementari, Lewis, con la chiarezza del logico aristotelico, l'umorismo polemico di Chesterton e Swift e la forza immaginativa dello scrittore di fantascienza, bracca il relativismo che serpeggia velenoso nella nostra società, nei modelli educativi, nella propaganda e nel mercato dei consumi, e delinea l'ormai ineluttabile trionfo di una sinistra distopia tecnocratica. È possibile inventare nuovi valori in nome del progresso? Che cosa accomuna scienza e magia? Quale tirannide si annida in un sistema che recide i nessi con la tradizione universale e condiziona le coscienze? E soprattutto: che cosa significa essere e restare esseri umani? Interrogativi che si sono imposti prepotentemente nell'èra digitale, ma che Lewis aveva formulato con profetica chiarezza più di ottant'anni fa.Paolo Gulisano è nato a Milano nel 1959. È medico, cultore di storia della Medicina e saggista. Ha pubblicato nel 2002 la prima monografia italiana su Chesterton: Chesterton e Belloc: apologia e profezia ed è fondatore e vicepresidente della Società Chestertoniana Italiana. È considerato uno dei maggiori esperti di J.R.R. Tolkien a cui ha dedicato: La mappa della Terra di Mezzo, La mappa del Silmarillon, La mappa dello Hobbit, Tolkien il mito e la grazia, Gli eroi de Il Signore degli Anelli. Si è occupato inoltre del beato John Henry Newman e di san Tommaso Moro con il volume Un uomo per tutte le utopie. L'eredità di san Tommaso Moro. Per Ares ha scritto Chesterton. La sostanza della fede (con Daniele De Rosa); Là dove non c'è tenebra. Storia di amicizia tra scrittori; Indagine su Sherlock Holmes; Stevenson. L'avventura nel cuore; C.S. Lewis. Nella terra delle ombre; «Cercate prima il Regno di Dio». Stanislao Medolago Albani. Padre del cattolicesimo sociale; e, per la collana “Un santo per amico”, Giuseppe Moscati. Il santo medico and Patrizio. Un santo tra le rovine dell'Impero. Diversi suoi volumi sono stati tradotti all'estero. Il suo sito è www.paologulisano.comDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Gloria Ghioni"Lettori si diventa""Leggere il mondo" Con l'inizio dell'anno scolastico 2025-2026 torna, ricco di novità, Il Libraio Scuola, il progetto dedicato a promuovere la lettura tra i ragazzi e le ragazze tramite uno spazio online interamente dedicato alla scuola e le due guide gratuite Lettori si diventa (scuola primaria e secondaria di primo grado) e Leggere il mondo (scuola secondaria di secondo grado). Stefano Mauri, Presidente e Amministratore delegato del Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol e direttore della rivista Il Libraio, sottolinea: «È in famiglia e a scuola che si impara ad amare la lettura. Gli insegnanti hanno un ruolo decisivo nel trasmettere questa abitudine preziosa, che aiuta i ragazzi a crescere come adulti più consapevoli, sereni e pronti ad affrontare i continui cambiamenti della vita: dalle trasformazioni personali e sentimentali, alle sfide professionali e familiari, fino alle grandi innovazioni tecnologiche e agli scenari geopolitici in continua evoluzione. La scuola, in questo percorso, è insostituibile. Con il nostro progetto vogliamo offrire agli studenti l'opportunità di scoprire non solo i grandi classici, ma anche opere contemporanee capaci di parlare al presente e di arricchire davvero il loro cammino.» LEGGERE IL MONDO E così arriva quest'anno al suo quarto numero Leggere il mondo, la guida digitale innovativa per la scuola secondaria di secondo grado che, con oltre 50 titoli selezionati e divisi per percorsi ragionati, è a disposizione di insegnanti, genitori, librai, bibliotecari ed educatori. Il tema principale di questo numero è la crescita attraverso letture che consentano ai ragazzi e alle ragazze di gestire i sentimenti: dall'amore alla frustrazione, al dolore, alla paura, al rispetto di sé e degli altri, senza dimenticare l'importanza della conoscenza del passato. La redazione della guida è affidata a Lucia Tomelleri, mentre la consulenza didattica del progetto è affidata a Gloria Maria Ghioni, insegnante di lettere e fondatrice del sito Criticaletteraria.org. LA NEWSLETTER A Il Libraio Scuola si collega inoltre una newsletter, che permette di ricevere in anteprima la guida Leggere il mondo e altri contenuti esclusivi. Inoltre, in omaggio ai nuovi iscritti, l'ebook I capolavori (America - Il castello - La metamorfosi e altri racconti - Il processo) di Franz Kafka (edito da Garzanti). LETTORI SI DIVENTA Al Libraio Scuola è legato anche il fortunato progetto Lettori si diventa di Salani, quest'anno alla quinta edizione. Con all'attivo numerosi incontri nelle scuole di tutta Italia, che hanno coinvolto migliaia di studenti, il progetto si rivolge alle insegnanti, agli insegnanti, alle promotrici e ai promotori della lettura nel mondo della scuola primaria e secondaria di primo grado. Il ricco catalogo sempre aggiornato e scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito dedicato, propone percorsi di lettura e strumenti utili per arricchire l'offerta didattica. Caratteristica principale e molto amata del progetto è la possibilità di far incontrare agli alunni le autrici e gli autori del catalogo Salani e di altri marchi del Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol come Ape Junior, Garzanti, Guanda, La Coccinella, Magazzini Salani, Nord-Sud e Tre60. L'incontro con l'autore arriva al termine di un percorso di lettura condivisa con l'obiettivo di avvicinare sempre di più i giovanissimi al mondo dei libri per formare i lettori e le lettrici di domani. Durante l'anno scolastico, inoltre, Lettori si diventa organizza webinar dedicati agli insegnati. Una serie di appuntamenti online gratuiti ed estendibili a tutti i colleghi interessati. Infine, va ricordata Critici si diventa, l'iniziativa che dà ai ragazzi la possibilità di trasformarsi in piccoli critici. Per partecipare è sufficiente scrivere una recensione (di classe o individuale) del libro che è stato oggetto dell'incontro e inviarla all'indirizzo lettorisidiventa@salani.it. Il testo vincitore viene selezionato a insindacabile giudizio della redazione Salani e lo studente o la classe che avrà scritto la recensione migliore farà ricevere alla scuola una donazione di 1.000€. Per chi scarica il catalogo entro il 31 ottobre 2025 in omaggio l'ebook di “Skellig”, l'ispirato romanzo di David Almond. «Il nostro impegno verso la scuola si struttura sempre meglio, ed è frutto di riflessione e di confronto fra di noi editoriali. Speriamo di portare un beneficio sempre maggiore a tutti gli insegnanti e di essere sempre meglio al loro servizio, nell'interesse dei ragazzi e per il futuro di questo nostro Paese.»Mariagrazia Mazzitelli, Direttrice editoriale Salani “MERLINO”. APPUNTI E SPUNTI PER CRESCERE CON I LIBRI Grande novità di quest'anno è Merlino, il video-podcast di 6 episodi della durata di 10 minuti l'uno, in cui grandi scrittori e scrittrici si confrontano su temi fondamentali legati all'educazione emotiva e sentimentale delle ragazze e dei ragazzi di oggi. Lo sviluppo del video-podcast Merlino è in collaborazione con Storielibere.fm, piattaforma editoriale pioniera del podcast in Italia, che dal 2025 è ufficialmente entrata a far parte del Gruppo Mauri Spagnol. Merlino nasce per restituire uno sguardo approfondito e originale su temi come il rispetto dell'altro da sé, l'accettazione di se stessi e degli altri, la conoscenza di mondi lontani, l'importanza del coraggio nelle scelte anche più semplici, la capacità di riconoscere il proprio talento, il rispetto delle regole e l'importanza di coltivare la memoria. Sono disponibili da oggi su tutte le piattaforme di streaming podcast e video. Alae Al Said “Crescere nel rispetto delle diversità”Una storia ambientata nella Cisgiordania negli anni ‘60, ma che parla anche di noi, del presente, delle sfide che ogni giovane può trovarsi ad affrontare quando si sente “diverso” - per come appare, per come pensa, per ciò in cui crede.  Matteo Bussola “Crescere con coraggio”Tutti ci siamo spesso sentiti divisi tra le nostre passioni e i nostri talenti; e non sempre le due cose vanno di pari passo. Matteo Bussola racconta cosa significhi crescere con il coraggio di essere se stessi e affermare con determinazione i propri desideri.  Gherardo Colombo “Crescere nel rispetto delle regole”Accettare e comprendere l'importanza delle regole non è semplice, soprattutto per i più giovani.Questo tema viene approfondito da Gherardo Colombo, ex magistrato e scrittore. Enrico Galiano “Crescere nonostante gli errori”Imparare a gestire i propri errori e addirittura farne tesoro: Enrico Galiano, insegnante e scrittore, ci invita a vederli come elementi fondamentali per plasmare chi siamo, e non solo per metterci alla prova. Alberto Pellai “Crescere amando se stessi”Alberto Pellai, da sempre molto attento ai problemi e agli interrogativi dei ragazzi e delle ragazze, ci parla di cosa significhi accettarsi e imparare ad amarsi per come si è. Agnese Pini “Crescere onorando la memoria”Agnese Pini ci parla di cosa significhi crescere onorando le proprie origini, che si tratti di memoria privata, storica o pubblica. La conduzione di Merlino è affidata a Gloria Maria Ghioni. I podcast saranno disponibili su Spotify, YouTube, ilLibraio.it e tutte le principali piattaforme di ascolto. Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Tune in to tune up your frequencies with our amazing guest-Deanna. A fellow contributor to our book we celebrate her journey. Find out more tomorrow.

As the FBI's investigation of local Boston art thieves fades, its investigation of crews linked to the Italian mob ramps up. Agents begin to focus on the men who are associated with Carmello Merlino's gang. But the 1990s proves to be a deadly time to be involved with the Merlino crew, and suspects start dying. Eventually, the FBI declares partial victory and announces that it knows the identities of the thieves, but it does not know the location of the stolen items to this day. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join   Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial.   On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage.   For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabriel Soria recibió en "Historias de oro" a Gabriel Merlino. El bandoneonista presentó su disco "Una arqueología del Bandoneón".Emitido el 13-4-2024.

Survivor 50 Files returns with Brandon Donlon and special guest Alec Merlino from Survivor: David vs. Goliath. The duo dive deep into the potential gameplay of returning players Angelina Keeley, Mike White, and Christian Hubicki in the upcoming Season 50.

Survivor 50 Files returns with Brandon Donlon and special guest Alec Merlino from Survivor: David vs. Goliath. The duo dive deep into the potential gameplay of returning players Angelina Keeley, Mike White, and Christian Hubicki in the upcoming Season 50.

After 6 years, 128 episodes and 60 guests, the podcast is winding down. It's a bittersweet moment to say goodbye and to express gratitude to everyone involved in this collaborative experience. Although the podcast is ending, it will be available indefinitely on most platforms as well as www.westsidetherapist.com. Andrew and Sue thank all of you from the bottom of their hearts, and don't forget, to stay connected.   Thank you Neil for the tunes! Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

In Chapter 10 of Andrew's workbook he investigates sexual health through a non- pathologizing, destigmatizing lens. Themes include: defining sexual health, reviving pleasure and fantasy as an ally. This candid conversation takes a look at the intersection of 12 step recovery and sexual health as we open up a larger dialogue to exploring your authentic sexual self. Give yourself a few minutes to listen to this heart-centered and liberating exploration. Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

In this episode we turn the tables on our podcast producer, Sue Merlino to discuss her services called Clear Pathways. With a combination of coaching and organizing one's physical space, Sue describes the valuable benefits to all of us, including those struggling with addiction or emotional challenges. In addition to walking clients through organizational skills, Sue also provides time management and mindset coaching as well as being a guide toward self-reflection. For more details, contact Sue at www.yourclearpathways.com or merlinosusanc@gmail.com   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

It's the Friday News Roundup. Today we're digging into Mayor Cherelle Parker's budget proposal – including her plans to eliminate free rides for low-income Philadelphians, build thousands of housing units, and cut a tax on businesses. We also wonder why the Portal art installation keeps getting vandalized and where it should be moved to keep it safer. And we talk about two Philebrities – Will Smith, the entertainer who got a street named after him, and Skinny Joe Merlino, the former mob boss opening a cheesesteak spot.  Our Friday news roundups are powered by great local journalism:  NIH terminates three Penn research grants, citing incompatibility with ‘agency priorities' Jameson says Penn researchers received ‘stop work orders' after $175 million federal funding freeze Pa. food banks are facing millions in federal funding cuts as they fear increased need 'Skinny Joey' Merlino to open cheesesteak shop in South Philadelphia 'A reckless dismantling': EPA employees and supporters march in Philly to protest cuts Mayor Parker wants to defund a program that provides free transit passes for low-income people Federal cuts, staffing struggles, homeless services: Philly City Council probes Mayor Parker's $6.7B budget proposal Where should the Portal go? Call or text us: 215-259-8170 Get Philly news & events in your inbox with our newsletter: Hey Philly We're also on Instagram: @citycastphilly  Advertise on the podcast or in the newsletter: citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicolás Fernández, Publisher Manager de Evolution Group, nos presenta hoy la herramienta Merlino. Sobre este software, el invitado nos cuenta que “el objetivo de Merlino es crear una herramienta generativa de IA de vídeo”. Desde Evolution Group nos explican que “la herramienta lo que hace es coger el enlace de una noticia y en pocos minutos lo convierte en contenido multiplataforma y con un amplío abanico de customización de los mismos”. Para el éxito de este tipo de herramientas ha sido clave, nos dice, que “Google le haya querido dar mucha importancia al vídeo en los motores de búsqueda”. Esto tiene un problema: “muchas de las redacciones no tienen el tiempo suficiente para producir contenidos para satisfacer las necesidades de la industria”. Para solucionar esto, ha llegado Merlino.

If you scratch the surface of compulsive sexual behavior, you'll find intimacy avoidance. In this powerful episode, Susskind and Merlino look through the lens of attachment as they discuss the challenges and opportunities related to truly receiving love in recovery. With a focus on avoidant and anxious attachment styles they discuss the often-misunderstood term love addiction as well as the possibility of utilizing obsessive thinking to reveal deeper parts of self. By establishing emotionally reliable relationships and receiving love, the ruptures of the past will heal over time. Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Following the subjects from Chapter 8 in The It's Not About the Sex Workbook, Andrew and Sue explore themes of long-term recovery including purpose, spirituality and legacy—all in the context of Positive Psychology and deeper soul-searching. How do spirituality, religion and purpose intersect with one another? Or not? Asking the bigger questions and staying away from exact answers is where the internal work begins. Tune in to this practical yet existential conversation.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

In this episode we take a closer look at Chapter 7 of Andrew's workbook and examine some of the essential ingredients of contentment including gratitude, connection and unconditional love. Distinctions are made among the terms joy, happiness and contentment as we discuss core values, visioning and purposeful goals. Listen to this optimistic episode as you choose to enhance contentment in your life and recovery.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

During this conversation Andrew and Sue take a deeper dive into Chapter Six Feeling the Feelings from The It's Not About the Sex Workbook. Maybe it looks simple on the surface, but Andrew highlights the sustainable benefits of deeper emotional awareness and expression. With an emphasis on anger, hurt, fear and loneliness, we explore the feelings language that is often missed in childhood. Take a listen and see that it's never too late to become more fluent in the world of emotions and deeper contact with others.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Andrew and Sue discuss Chapter Five, Regulating the Nervous System from Andrew's recent workbook. Beginning with a memoir snapshot and ending with practical strategies and action steps, they explore the following themes: following the rhythm within, identifying regulation and dysregulation, utilizing the Window of Resilience, and naming attachment styles and how they correlate with nervous system regulation. Check out these user-friendly ways to get to know your nervous system as part of sustainable recovery.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Justin Sommer Field Part, Save Project 45 Montreal skatepark, Skate Tales Peter Hewitt, Clyde's Corner, Nick Merlino short but sweet part, Budget or Buttery, Shane Goes 2, SOTY board update and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Nine Club Live #68 00:01:00 Topic Rundown 00:04:34 Peanut Butter Whiskey Cheers 00:07:40 Justin Sommer Field Part 00:14:00 Save Project 45 Montreal skatepark 00:27:44 Crob for Soty 00:31:00 Jamie Thomas was just on the Nine Club 00:33:00 Skate Tales Peter Hewitt 00:36:00 Clyde's Corner 01:08:00 Nick Merlino short but sweet part 01:14:00 Budget or Buttery 01:30:00 SOTY Talk 01:42:00 Shane Goes 2 02:18:00 SOTY board update 02:29:30 Superchat appreciation drawing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode focuses on Chapter Four of Andrew's workbook as we explore the healthier side of narcissism, other-centeredness, generosity of spirit as well as longing and belonging. Beneath narcissism is broken heartedness so tune in to understand the deeper healing and trajectory from this complicated survival strategy.

Joey Merlino, known as "Skinny Joey," rose to power as the flamboyant boss of the Philadelphia Mafia, embracing the spotlight unlike traditional mobsters who operated in the shadows. Born into a mafia family, Merlino navigated his way through violent mob wars in the 1990s, ultimately claiming control of the Philadelphia crime family. His charisma and public persona made him a media darling, but it also drew intense scrutiny from law enforcement. Despite multiple trials and prison sentences for racketeering and extortion, Merlino continued to thrive, even opening a restaurant in Florida upon his release. While he claims to be retired, suspicions linger about his continued involvement in organized crime, cementing his enigmatic legacy as a modern-day mob figure who has consistently defied the odds.(commercial at 9:44)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

The Philadelphia Mafia, or Philly Mob, has a violent and complex history marked by power struggles, brutal leadership changes, and its enduring presence in organized crime. It began with Salvatore Sabella in the early 1900s, flourished under the diplomatic rule of Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno, and descended into chaos and bloodshed during Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo's reign in the 1980s. After Scarfo's downfall, a violent mob war ensued between John Stanfa and Joey "Skinny Joey" Merlino, with Merlino emerging victorious and modernizing the family's operations. Though its influence has waned, the Philly Mob continues to operate quietly today, adapting to a lower-profile approach while maintaining a foothold in illegal activities like gambling and loansharking. Despite federal scrutiny and internal strife, the family has managed to survive and remains a significant part of America's organized crime legacy.(commercial at 8:03)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Joey Merlino, known as "Skinny Joey," rose to power as the flamboyant boss of the Philadelphia Mafia, embracing the spotlight unlike traditional mobsters who operated in the shadows. Born into a mafia family, Merlino navigated his way through violent mob wars in the 1990s, ultimately claiming control of the Philadelphia crime family. His charisma and public persona made him a media darling, but it also drew intense scrutiny from law enforcement. Despite multiple trials and prison sentences for racketeering and extortion, Merlino continued to thrive, even opening a restaurant in Florida upon his release. While he claims to be retired, suspicions linger about his continued involvement in organized crime, cementing his enigmatic legacy as a modern-day mob figure who has consistently defied the odds.(commercial at 9:44)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

This month, Mark talks with F. Joseph Merlino about the work he has done using grants from the National Science Foundation to reform math and science education. They talk about his work in Egypt overhauling their whole education system, working with the decision-makers to identify their biggest challenges and then how they can design school around preparing students to solve those big problems. They talk in particular about the success of the government-funded STEM schools and the role that modelers played in training the educators. They talk about formative assessment, and how it is not only for the benefit of the teacher, but also the New Era-New Urgency: the Case for Repurposing Education. They talk about the purpose for education or for teaching the particular things we teach, and the "shadows" that every teacher or reform person must confront even before walking into a school. Guests F. Joseph Merlino F. Joseph Merlino's academic background is in chemical engineering and cognitive developmental psychology. He is the president of the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education (17 years). He has been a PI and project director of numerous large-scale NSF, IES, and USAID projects, including a Targeted Math Science Partnership involving 45 school districts and 13 colleges and universities. For the past 12 years, he has been directing a STEM project for the Egyptian Ministry of Education establishing 21 New STEM high schools and new STEM teacher prep programs in 5 Egyptian universities. He has employed many modelers as consultants on these projects. He is co-author of a new book entitled NEW ERA-NEW URGENCY: The Case for Repurposing Education by Lexington Books (2024) Highlights [4:47] F Joseph Merlino "Actually, this idea that physics instruction and science instruction could be different, goes back to the 1880s." [17:01] F Joseph Merlino "we had to use the assessments as a foot in the door as a way to open the door to then introduce a different pedagogical approach." [24:06] F Joseph Merlino "the idea of the formative assessment that we talk about is that if you're cooking something, for example, if you're cooking, a dish, a stew, for example, you sample it along the way, and then you add ingredients as you need in order to suit it to the taste." Resources Download Transcript Ep 60 Transcript Links New Era - New Urgency Website

In this episode, special guest Tony Taouk and myself discuss the career of infamous Philadelphia mob lawyer, Robert "Bobby" Simone (1933 - 2007). Robert F. Simone was known for winning a string of difficult cases for clients that included members of Philadelphia's organized-crime family such as Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, Philip "Crazy" Phil Leonetti, Frank "The Baracuda" Sindone, union boss John McCullough, and many more. We discuss many topics surrounding the life and times of Simone including: His law studies at Temple University The Pottsville Heist: His first big criminal defense case of Lillian "Tiger Lil" Reis How he began defending mobsters like Frank "The Barracuda" Sindone Meeting and beginning to defend Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo The 1980 defense of Scarfo, Philip "Crazy Phil" Leonetti, and Lawrence "Yogi" Merlino in the Vincent Falcone murder case Simone's defense and association with the Philly mob in the 1980's and 1990's Simone's defense of himself in his 1984 tax evasion case Simone's ability to tear down government informants such as Nick "The Crow" Caramandi The Martorano drug conviction in the mid-to-late 1980's Simone's conviction of racketeering in the early 1990's and his disbarrment from being a lawyer Simone's retirement, autobiography, and ultimate legacy Link to Simone's book, "The Last Mouthpiece: The Man Who Dared to Defend the Mob" https://www.amazon.com/Last-Mouthpiece-Man-Dared-Defend/dp/0940159694 Link to "MOUTHPIECE: VOICE FOR THE ACCUSED" (2002)" * PRODUCED BY THE HISTORY CHANNEL (Used in this video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7hDUNfyRJc

On today's Take 2 with Jerry and Debbie, Fr. Darrin Merlino joins to talk about faith and film in Hollywood and his work as a priest consultant on the film "Nefarious".

On today's Take 2 with Jerry and Debbie, Fr. Darrin Merlino joins to talk about faith and film in Hollywood and his work as a priest consultant on the film "Nefarious".

In this episode we examine Chapter Three of Andrew's workbook as we encourage curiosity and non-judgment about shame. Although shame never goes away entirely, you can respond to it differently. In this discussion we explore the following: building shame resiliency, taming the inner critic and practicing mindful self-compassion. Tune in to see how shame can be normalized and diminished in your life and recovery.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Get the book, New Era - New Urgency: The Case for Repurposing Education Visit the New Era - New Urgency Website About The Author F. Joseph Merlino is President of The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education, a Philadelphia area non-profit research and action organization he co-founded in 2007. For the past 35 years, he has served as the principal investigator or director of many National Science Foundation, U.S Department of Education, and U.S. Agency for International Development projects impacting thousands of secondary math and science teachers and hundreds of schools. Currently, he directs a project in Egypt to design five new undergraduate STEM teacher preparation programs. The project involves over 100 US and Egyptian staff and five US and five Egyptian universities. He oversaw the development of 21 new model STEM high schools based on Egypt's 11 Grand Challenges. He has worked in Egypt for the past 12 years. He has a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester and an MA in Education from Arcadia University. He did doctoral studies in cognitive developmental psychology at Catholic University.   Deborah Pomeroy is professor emeritus of science education at Arcadia University. She started her career in research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Alaska's Institute of Arctic Biology. Shifting her career into science education, she taught high school science for 19 years in Fairbanks, AK, during which time she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching. Following her high school teaching career, she completed doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School for Education. She then taught science education at Arcadia University for 14 years where she directed multiple education reform projects K-16. Later, in Egypt, she helped to lead a massive project to develop a new integrated STEM education curriculum funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Grief and loss is often overlooked or avoided in our society. Andrew and Sue take this opportunity to delve into this often-misunderstood topic of grief and loss and its implications on long-term recovery from sexual compulsivity. Andrew shares a “memoir snapshot” as well as specific practices to consider using toward living more peacefully and openheartedly with the inevitable losses that come with being human.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Today's episode featuring Andrew and Sue focuses on Emotional Resilience, the lead chapter of Andrew's workbook. In the original book, the first chapter explored Emotional Sobriety, but the word resilience is more aligned with Andrew's current focus on regulating the nervous system. This episode kicks off a monthly spotlight on each workbook chapter.   Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes F. Joseph Merlino and Deborah Pomeroy to Conversations LIVE to discuss their new book NEW ERA, NEW URGENCY. 

Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house too. And the racket boys, they really did have a fight...a brutal one that lasted decades and saw Skinny Joey Merlino come out on top. He's not just America's next top crime podcaster and patreon star, he's also the one-time boss of the Philadelphia mafia and (allegedly!) still the don of Philly, if you believe the feds. Merlino, though, is no joke. Surviving by the skin of his teeth and dodging multiple assassinations in the 80's and 90's, he went from the son of shunned one-time underboss Chuckie Merlino to the top position when him and his crew of young gunners took on all comers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew's latest release The It's Not About the Sex Workbook: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Compulsivity (Routledge Press, 2024) is now available for purchase on Amazon, and he and Sue wanted to take this opportunity to explore Andrew's journey with his three books from 2004 to 2024. Andrew shares the opportunities and challenges that go along with the writing process and the publishing world and ends with immense gratitude for his incredible team of supporters who have been in his corner all these years. Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com  

Lil Snuff from The Skinny Podcast w/ Joey Merlino stopped by the show. When Snuff & Joey hit YouTube it sent shockwaves through what is considered the Mob Tube Genre. They rose in popularity at an alarming rate and were getting amazing guests like Ric Flair & Bernard Hopkins.  However, a lot of people were asking who is Lil Snuff, what's his story....We'll find out in this all new episode of Crime & Entertainment.Check out their show below:https://patreon.com/THESKINNYWITHJOEY...   / @theskinnywithjoeymerlino  https://manateezdesign.com/collection...Links to Crime & Entertainment Like us on Facebook -   / crimeandentertainment  Follow us on -   / crimenentertainment  Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4T67Bs5... Listen on Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/crime-e... Listen on Google Podcast -

Join Space and Byx in this heartfelt episode as we pay tribute to the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Mark Merlino, one of the founding figures of the furry fandom. From the humble beginnings of the ConFurence convention to his lasting impact on artistic expression and community building, Mark's passion, creativity, and unwavering dedication touched the lives of countless individuals within the furry community and beyond. Through personal reflections, and heartfelt anecdotes, we celebrate the lasting mark left by this furry visionary and honor the enduring spirit of camaraderie, creativity, and compassion that he instilled in the hearts of all who knew him. Whether you're a longtime member of the furry community or simply curious about its rich history, this special tribute episode invites you to join us in remembering and cherishing the legacy of Mark Merlino—a true pioneer, a cherished friend, and a furry icon whose spirit will forever live on in the hearts of those who knew him.-The Prancing Skiltaire: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Skiltaire_PartyWebsite: https://skiltaire.net/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PrancingSkiltaire-GoFundMe:  http://tinyurl.com/3d65jrzu-Mark Merlino WikiFur: http://tinyurl.com/4nw6m4xu-Some audio was used from the film "The Fandom" created by Ash Coyote & Ash Eagle. To watch their film, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY

Have you ever felt stuck in your life or career, longing for change but unsure how to make it happen?   If you're ready to redefine your personal and professional life, then this episode is for you.   Join me and Deanna Merlino as she shares her transformation from a corporate career to a thriving entrepreneurial life as an Intuitive Life Coach and Energetic Healer.    Through Deanna's story, you'll discover how facing challenges led her to embrace change and experience profound personal growth, professional fulfillment, and an authentic entrepreneurial journey. By tuning into her intuition along the way, she found the empowerment to redefine her path. Her inspirational transformation will motivate you to further listen to your inner wisdom and embrace your authentic self as you navigate your own personal transformation journey to realize your full potential. Deanna also shares her approach through her spiritual life coaching program and how it can help lead to personal and professional development.    Tune in and get ready to be motivated to embrace your path to empowerment!   Always empowering women, Marta Let's keep the conversation going!  Website: martaspirk.com Instagram: @martaspirk Facebook: Marta Spirk Get ready to take notes and elevate your business's presence as we share over 30 visibility-boosting ideas (access it here: www.martaspirk.com/visibility) and introduce a mastermind program designed to keep you accountable and support your entrepreneurial journey.   Get 30-day free trial of my membership! freegiftfrommarta.com     MORE VISIBILITY MASTERMIND application:  https://forms.gle/jegEmwzYsTPrH4oP8 About Deanna: I am a present Momma, committed wife & Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur. Host of Empowered with Deanna Merlino Podcast, an all-encompassing show sharing deeply about all things personal development, wellness, manifestation, spirituality & entrepreneurship.  Keynote motivational speaker and an Amazon best-selling published author. An Intuitive life/business/money & mindset coach and a Quantum Energetic Healer. Owner & Creator of The Empowered Academy: A globally recognized training provider of transformational accredited courses. Co-owner/creator of Empowered Collective: In-person spiritual retreats, online healing classes/workshops & community. Proud manager of my late father's hand-built vacation rental properties, adding in my own personal twist by transforming them in event rental & retreat spaces as well. Connect with Deanna: Website: https://www.deannamerlino.com/ Instagram: @theempoweredcoach333 One thing I don't talk about enough is the impact podcasting has had on my professional life, and how it opened so many doors for me. So if you want to start a podcast or you want to level up your current one, then you need to work with my podcast strategist, Juliana Barbati. She owns a podcast marketing and production agency and her team takes care of everything from editing and optimizing to scheduling for you making this process a breeze for you. She's seriously the best. All her info is in the show notes. You can go to julianabarbati.com and tell her I sent you

GENE BORRELLO EXPOSES JOEY MERLINO (Why Philly Hates Him) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mattcox/support

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Andrew and Sue offer an abundance of tips to help navigate the 2023- 2024 holidays and beyond. Borrowed from Andrew's new book, The It's Not About the Sex Workbook (Routledge Press, February 2023), these tips are part of the practices outlined at the end of his workbook. Take a listen and try out a few tips that resonate for you.

Podcast Patrons!!! Welcome to Episode 203 of Leave the Pin Podcast. Shout out Tiger Hoods for our intro. Rich from Gashouse Golf is back. The header says it all...we talk Charleston Golf, how to get on the Muni, Gambling in Golf and why two pro's just got banned from the PGA Tour and so much more. You know when Gashouse is in studio it's always a good time. Rich also plays "Who the hell is that" and is our first guest to get it right. Play along with "Who the hell is that?" Tour pros are boring looking and we see if we can guess who the most bland looking pros are out there. You can play along on instragram @leavethepin on the day the pod drops. Please go check out our Sponsors Gashouse Golf on instagram @gashousegolf and online at www.gashousegolf.com. Hit the ball a mile and look damn good doin' it. Swannies golf-Go to Swannies.co and use the code Leavethepin25 for 25% off your order!!! Help us continue to grow with a special Leave the Pin Podcast Membership. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leave-the-pin/subscribe Members will be receive special monthly podcasts not available to the public along with giveaways and playing opportunities. Please leave a review and rating on iTunes/Spotify if you enjoy the episode. Follow us on Instagram @leavethepin Tag us on your social media feed with #Leavethepin Follow us on TikTok @leavethepin Email us at Leavethepin@gmail.com Get busy golfing or get busy dying --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leave-the-pin/message

It was a Mob hit that rocked Philadelphia. A daring, rush hour drive by shooting on the infamous Schuykill Expressway. The target was Mob Boss John Stanfa. The shooters, allegedly his rivals from the Merlino Mob faction. Now 30 years later, one of the cops assigned to the case delivers new details and Mob expert George Anastasia,who was on the scene that day in 1993, opens up about the Mob hit heard round the nation.

Alec Merlino is living a big life, pursuing his dreams, exploring opportunities, pushing his limits in endurance sports, and figuring it out as he goes along. Having walked away from a full-time career to pursue a life unscripted, we're sure Alec has come upon a moment or two of uncertainty as he creates his life. We dive into it all during this episode. Alec came into our awareness after moving to Carlsbad, and I believe it was during one of his endurance challenges of which he has done his fair share -  5k a day, Calendar Club Challenge, going for a KOM on Kauai and most recently plunging into an ice cold bath every day of the year. For you Survivor buffs, you may know Alec from Season 37, aired in 2018, and also in the global obsession White Lotus, Season One. We were so grateful to sit down in person with Alec earlier this month and hope you enjoy his adventurous spirit and unwavering belief in his dreams. Thank you for joining Jess and BJ for this episode; if you are enjoying this commercial-free content, make your pledge, as little as $5/month, on patreon.com/yogitriathlete today. In this episode, we discuss: - Roots of his love for cycling - Detachment from outcomes - Craving big challenges - Why endurance sports? - Life moments that led to being on Survivor - KOM love - The upbringing that shaped his adventurous life - From panic attacks to riding with full presence - Lone wolf mentality - Leaning into fear, doubt, and anxiety to move through it - Alec's relationship to patience - The journey of life IS the joy - Rule of thirds - Desire to push the mental limits more Namaste- Jess

In this episode Emma sits down (in-person!!!) with Alec Merlino, full-time endurance athlete and content creator living in Carlsbad! In this episode, Alec talks about how he got his start with endurance sports and triathlon, being a content creator, finding his "why" with endurance sports during a bike ride in Hawaii and so much more. You can find Emma on Instagram at @emmaabrahamson and on her YouTube Channel. Follow Convos Over Cold Brew Podcast on Instagram at @convosovercoldbrewpod. Follow Alec on Instagram at @alec.merlino and on YouTube.Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor: http://factor75.com* Check out Gopuff and use my code WELCOME1010 for a great deal: http://www.gopuff.com* Check out Visit Yosemite: https://www.travelyosemite.com/go/stay-in-the-heart-of-the-park/?mkwid=sgd1e0wCg&crid=434047637517&mp_kw=yosemite%20village&mp_mt=b&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi7GnBhDXARIsAFLvH4k_B2ZterEiLC55wCA6c0yjiQM8SEH_vWkd7vHMcj6DDpdxHcs5sBkaAhfBEALw_wcBAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Corinne Merlino was born with Pierre Robin Syndrome, a rare congenital birth defect that affects craniofacial development. Navigating life as a patient from a young age sparked her passion for science, medicine, and advocacy, and ultimately inspired her to pursue a career in genetic counseling.   Corinne currently works as a clinical research coordinator for -The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research- or (PAIR) Center- at The University of Pennsylvania. There she supports multiple studies focused on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of specialty palliative care services for seriously ill patients.    With our Executive Producer, Kira Dineen, Corinne also serves as Communications Lead for the DNA Today Podcast for over 3 years. Kira is also joining us today as a guest host for this conversation!    In 2020, Corinne received her B.S. in Biology and Healthcare Ethics from Saint Joseph's University. Corinne is currently a graduate student in genetic counseling at the University of Pennsylvania.   During the episode we mentioned Philly Phaces and the book and film Wonder.    Stay tuned for the next new episode of It Happened To Me! In the meantime, you can listen to our previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “It Happened To Me”.    It Happened To Me is created and hosted by Cathy Gildenhorn and Beth Glassman. DNA Today's Kira Dineen is our executive producer and marketing lead. Amanda Andreoli is our associate producer. Ashlyn Enokian is our graphic designer.   See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website, ItHappenedToMePod.com. Questions/inquiries can be sent to ItHappenedToMePod@gmail.com. 

We debate and discuss who is in today's Bruno/Scarfo crime family administration.

Jeff is joined today by organized crime journalist Scott Burnstein as they delve into the life of Philadelphia mobster Joey Merlino. "Skinny Joey" is mob royalty growing up around the life, making a play to take it over and ultimately living a very colorful life filled with time in prison for his involvement in the Mafia, run-ins with celebrities and even a photo with Donald Trump. Presented as always by Barstool Sports We hope you enjoy the show, please leave us a deserving rating and review! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @sitdowncrimepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff is joined today by organized crime journalist Scott Burnstein as they delve into the life of Philadelphia mobster Joey Merlino. "Skinny Joey" is mob royalty growing up around the life, making a play to take it over and ultimately living a very colorful life filled with time in prison for his involvement in the Mafia, run-ins with celebrities and even a photo with Donald Trump. Presented as always by Barstool Sports We hope you enjoy the show, please leave us a deserving rating and review! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @sitdowncrimepod

Jeff is joined today by organized crime journalist Scott Burnstein as they delve into the life of Philadelphia mobster Joey Merlino. "Skinny Joey" is mob royalty growing up around the life, making a play to take it over and ultimately living a very colorful life filled with time in prison for his involvement in the Mafia, run-ins with celebrities and even a photo with Donald Trump. Presented as always by Barstool Sports We hope you enjoy the show, please leave us a deserving rating and review! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @sitdowncrimepodYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/thesitdown