Joe Mammana is no joke - Mammana is a real bad boy

Attack on Crime Stoppers Chief a test for the community

On Sunday, November 20, 2006, Kevin Miles, President of Central Ohio Crime Stoppers, after having an early morning breakfast with me and another friend was stalked and assaulted with a baseball bat in his own neighborhood while walking his dog later that same morning.  When Kevin called me and gave me a very very general idea of what happened, without hesitation, I told him that Joe Mammana just sent him a message.  Kevin's response was how do you know that?  I then told Kevin that it is real simple for me to figure that out.  The suspect did not attempt to rob you.  It was a white male.  They attacked you in broad daylight in a residential neighborhood where there is a high probability that someone would observe what was happening.  The suspect attacked you with a bat even though you had that big ass dog of yours with you and, didn't care if you saw what he looked like or the car that he got into and drove away in.  I then said my man this was a hit gone bad because you pulled your gun out and your dog was raising hell.  The suspect is most likely from out of town and the car was most likely stolen.  Kevin then asked me what comes next?  I told him war.

Joe Mammana, a former criminal turned business man, is from my hometown Philadelphia.  When I personally met Mammana when I was on the Crime Stopper's Board of Trustees, I warned Kevin then that Mammana was the real deal and that he had street written all over him.  Being a former Philly gangster myself, power recognizes power.  Mammana and I never said much to each other but we both readily identified with our roots without saying a word.  There was a look and a hand shake.  That is all it took.  We both knew that we were homeboys.

Mammana made some very public commitments to our community using Crime Stopper's as the vehicle of his so-called commitment to fight crime.  It now appears that when the time came to pay up, Mammana, for whatever reason, choose not to deliver.  Kevin, being the fighter that he is, publicly called Mammana out and, using Columbus attorney Kinsley Nyce, on behalf of Crime Stoppers, filed a law suite against  Mammana.  The public dialog leading up to the law suite between Kevin Miles and Joe Mammana got personal and, I strongly believe that Mammana did what comes natural for a street person, hit back personally in a way that comes easy for him.

Central Ohio Crime Stoppers represents one of the most viable anti-crime citizens programs in Ohio.  Kevin Miles without question is it's leader.  All appearances are that Mammana has made street moves against both Miles and attorney Nyce (Nyce has indicated that a suspect fitting the description of Mile's assailant showed up at his office) without thinking things through.  This is not Philly and this is not Mammana's turf.  Experienced should have told Mammana, before yous bust a move, you should know who all you are moving against.  Kevin Miles is a well known and respected member of our community and it is a big mistake on the part of Mammana to convince himself that where Kevin walks he walks alone.

From one homeboy to another, let's call an end to this drama and settle things the right way, in a court of law, while this is still a viable option.

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[John Wilkerson]

Posted on Sat, Dec. 02, 2006email thisprint thisreprint or license thisCrime stoppers say Mammana doesn't pay

From The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 2, 2006

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/16146940.htm

Joe Mammana has been accused lately of failing to pay rewards he offered to solve crimes.

An Ohio crime-stoppers group has sued Mammana, saying he signed a contract promising up to $50,000 to tipsters who solved the murder case of an Ohio State coed, then reneged on the pledge.

"We decided we needed to stop him because he's offering reward money all over the place, and he's putting other crime stoppers and families in jeopardy by offering this money and not coming through," said Kevin Miles, president of the Central Ohio Crime Stoppers.

After his group threatened legal action, Miles was attacked by a bat-wielding attacker who, Miles said, warned him to "drop the charges or anything you have filed."

Mammana denied any involvement in the attack, and has accused the group of forging his signature on the contract.

Controversy has also arisen over Mammana's Nov. 4 pledge of $2 million in rewards to solve 20 missing-children's cases, at $100,000 each.

TV personality Geraldo Rivera reported Wednesday that Mammana said he would not pay the rewards in the two cases solved so far. Both turned out to be runaway kids, and Mammana said his rewards are "based on arrest and conviction."

Rivera reported that the reward contract in the case provides for rewards for information "leading to the recovery of the missing person and/or arrest of those responsible."

John Apeldorn of the Citizens Crime Commission of the Delaware Valley reports that Mammana has been good for his promised rewards in "four or five" cases here and that one is "still pending."

[Darlene]

I have made it clear where I stand in this case.
Now it is time to let the cards fall where they may.

As to continuing to respond to idiotic comments - think I will pass.

Time proves out all things - now it is just a matter of waiting. Thus leaving me with little left to say.

If something is said which triggers my trigger - you can bet I will respond but it will be worthy of "my" time.

[Cornell]

Hey Ben, I an't argue with a thing you said in your last comment. Wnat to hear something funny? I started out spelling hey, "hae". I wonder what kind of comments I would have gotten back if I had not caught that. You guys play ruff. But its fun to read you comments. Keep them coming. Lets make the blog the place to be if you really have something to say or, even if you don't. We can have fun and get educated regarding serious issues too.

Cornell

[Cornell]

I need to get either my eyes or my computer checked because I'm writing one thing and something else is showing up posted. It must be the spy trap on my computer or something.

Cornell

[Darlene]

What a joke this is...........like to see how this one is going to get proven. I would have thought one would be embarrassed to get on a stand and say how he was embarrassed for not being able to fight back and carrying a gun and not knowing how to use it or how to call 911 (not going to hospital immeidately - how hurt was he?) and for allowing your whittle doggy to get beat up cuz you didn't know how to use that gun that didn't have a bullet or was it not in the chamber. Which story you gonna go with? Not knowing after all those years of helping victims on what protocol would be in a crime? Maybe there is something I am missing in this visual..just maybe. Plus if it is going to Uncle Sam - that 3.1 million - you think they will share it w/him???

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-12022006-750441.html

Mammana is embroiled in a lawsuit with an Ohio crime-stoppers group that alleged he reneged on the reward offered in the Popovich slaying. The head of the group, Kevin Miles, is also suing Mammana, saying someone with a baseball bat attacked him and told him to drop the lawsuit.

Mammana said he had nothing to do with the attack.

[John Wilkerson]

Could someone tell Darlene were on a NEW BLOG POST [Joe Mammana could have really done a lot of good ] I know at her age she may be SLOW this is old stuff Darlene should i find out where Dr. Jack Kevorkian is for you put him on standby

[Darlene]

John,
Who are you - Kevin Miles, significant other?

I have made myspace public again so all can see this "old" alley cat..hehe!

As far as you and your buddy Jack Kevorkian - I figure with you - he has already been on stand by and has his hands full..hehe! So I will not be in need of his services but thanks for the offer!

Now any and all of your comments about "myspace" will be put on my "ignore" button to the fullest! Reason being -- Your opinion has proven not to amount to much thus leaving me to only comment when you make me laugh..hehe. The way you post things on here - I doubt highly anyone takes you serious...but again I could be wrong.

Have a wonderful evening.

[John Wilkerson]

oh you do love me.. whats ur boys Joe or Kevin going to say ? oh is Joe out of jail yet

[Darlene]

hehe - no I don't think he is out of jail yet but you can bank I am sure waiting...

As far as me and Kevin - YUCK!!!! (Imagination can't even go there)

I am sure there will be future event happenings with Joe. From the time I have been in contact w/him there has not been a dull moment..hehe! (literally).

Point proven. What goes around comes around. There is a judge here in Indy that got off the hook from some illegal stuff in 1999. Guess what - he was arrested for drinking and driving thus bringing out all of his skeltons. Doubt he will be a judge very much longer but never can tell. So every dog does have his day - just a matter of timing...oops KM I wasn't talking about you this time - well kinda!

[John Wilkerson]

Darlene , what say you now?

Mammana in guilty plea'Crime fighter' to admit to gun, tax-evasion counts

By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
hinkelm@phillynews.com 215-854-2656

A wealthy Philadelphia businessman who gained fame by offering big rewards to help solve crime cases will soon be noted for something far less noble - cheating on his taxes.

Joe Mammana, 47, who has been in federal custody since December, intends to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal gun and tax-evasion charges, a federal prosecutor and his attorney said yesterday.

He had been scheduled to go on trial that day on a single count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Mammana was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in November after federal investigators found a loaded .357 Magnum in his nightstand while they were searching his Yardley, Bucks County, home for business and tax records.

The feds said in their plea agreement with Mammana that he failed to file a personal tax return and pay taxes on more than $416,000 in 2005, and intentionally evaded taxes and failed to file returns on more than $4 million of income from 2000 through 2004.

Mammana stipulated in the plea agreement that he owes Uncle Sam at least $400,000 in back taxes but not more than $2.5 million. He has agreed to pay the IRS at least $200,000 before sentencing.

Mammana has also agreed to forfeit the Magnum and a 2003 Lamborghini Murielago, both of which were seized by the feds in November. The feds valued the Lamborghini at more than $287,000.

Mammana could face from six to nine years in prison.

Jeffrey M. Lindy, Mammana's attorney, declined to be interviewed yesterday and said he would not make Mammana available to answer questions from the Daily News.

Mammana owns an egg-processing plant in North Philadelphia - Yardley Farms - that takes raw eggs and turns them into powdered, liquid and frozen egg products.

A source who didn't want to be identified said the business is no longer operating. Another law-

yer for Mammana, Martin L. Trichon, could not be reached for comment. The phone at Yardley Farms emitted a constant busy signal.

Mammana is better known as a brash, philanthropic crime-fighter who told the Daily News in February 2006 he had "done more than anybody else in this city" to help people.

Mammana, an ex-Marine, said then that he had been offering reward money - or "bounties" - for 10 years to the Citizens Crime Commission.

In 2005, that reward money helped cops crack two widely publicized murder cases.

One was the killing of Latoyia Figueroa, the young Philadelphia woman pregnant with her boyfriend's baby, and Patricia McDermott, an Elkins Park mother who was killed while walking to her job at Pennsylvania Hospital, moments after leaving a SEPTA bus.

Mammana attracted national attention in 2005 when he pledged $100,000 for information to help solve the case of Natalee Holloway, the missing Alabama teen who disappeared during a trip to Aruba in May 2005.

Although Mammana made a name for himself fighting crime, he has been twice convicted of drug charges, once for aggravated assault and once for sexual harassment.

The convictions date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s.

At a detention hearing before a federal magistrate last December, the feds alleged that Mammana had skimmed upwards of $3.2 million from legitimate business accounts and steered the money into his personal checking account or the accounts of businesses Mammana had set up to finance a lavish lifestyle

[Darlene]

John,
What do you want me to say. His guilt in now way shape or form PROVES KEVIN MILES IS NOT GUILTY OF PROVIDING A FORGED DOCUMENT. I don't believe for one minute Kevin Miles was attacked in any alley. My point being - Kevin Miles is just as guilty but just in a different way.

So what is your poing John?

[buckblog]

"What do you want me to say. His guilt in now way shape or form PROVES KEVIN MILES IS NOT GUILTY OF PROVIDING A FORGED DOCUMENT"

That's a logical fallacy.

Of course it doesn't but it also doesn't prove gravity or that the earth is round, all of which we know is fact.

"Kevin Miles is just as guilty but just in a different way."

Oooh, I'd say we are a long way from seeing that. It's fairly clear Kevin Miles was attacked, unless you believe he beat himself up. The circumstances behind the attack are less clear. With Mammano a guest of the feds it's likely the contractual issue may never get settled in a court.

[waltAlats]

Make love, not war!

[diane]

what ever happened to joe mammana - what was his final conviction - does anyone know ehere he is and for how long?

[Cornell]

FYI for anyone,Joe is in the Big House in Philadelphia dreaming about getting out and settling things with Kevin Miles.

Cornell