Jailed mob boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi wants to go homeWhat’s more, his lawyer says there is a job at a “respected Philadelphia-based corporation” waiting for the 73-year-old mob leader if he is freed to await retrial on a racketeering conspiracy charge.
A motion for bail was filed by Ligambi’s lawyer this week. He has requested a Feb. 25 hearing.
Ligambi has been in the Federal Detention Center since his indictment and arrest in May 2011. But attorney Edwin Jacobs Jr. argued that his client’s situation has changed substantially since prosecutors successfully argued to deny him bail after his arrest.
Jacobs argued at the time, and now contends that this month’s jury verdict confirms, that Ligambi is not the violent organized crime leader that prosecutors say he is. Jacobs said a jury rejected the bulk of the government’s case against his client and six co-defendants when it delivered a split verdict in the racketeering conspiracy case earlier this month
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