Bradley Sirkin, a former driver for reputed Philly Mob Boss Joey Merlino and Merlino’s co-defendant in the infamous “East Coast LCN” case out of New York, has been released from federal prison.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, the 58 year old Sirkin is now in a federal halfway house or home confinement in the Miami area just like Merlino, who was released to home confinement at the outbreak of the Covid19 Pandemic back in March. Merlino served less than 2 years on a gambling conviction.
Sirkin, a convicted felon who authorities allege has ties to organized crime, was sentenced to 46 months in prison back in 2016 after entering pleas in both Florida and New York in a health care fraud scheme. The Florida case alleged almost $157 million in health care fraud. Sentences in both cases ran concurrently.
The BOP website says Sirkin is set to finish his sentence in June of 2021.
The relationship between Sirkin and Merlino goes back almost a decade. Federal authorities say Merlino first met Sirkin at a Florida halfway house back in 2011 while both men were finishing up prior federal prison sentences.
Federal sources told Mobtalksitdown.com’s George Anastasia several years ago that Sirkin was repeatedly seen driving Merlino “all over town” down in the Boca Raton area where Merlino relocated following his 12-year prison sentence for a 2001 racketeering conspiracy conviction.
A state report described Sirkin as Merlino’s “constant companion” after their release from the Florida halfway house.
Sources told Anastasia that Merlino and Sirkin liked to frequent cigar bars in the Boca area.
New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation says Sirkin has ties to both the Bonanno Crime Family in New York and New York’s Lucchese Crime Family through marriage.
Sirkin’s name also surfaced during the SCI’s investigation of dumping at a Palmyra landfill allegedly leased by Sirkin back in 2012. The SCI claimed the landfill, which was only licensed to accept 20,000 cubic yards of specified materials, actually took in 380,000 cubic yards of materials.
The SCI said Sirkin ran an operation known as Jersey Recycling Services at the 104-acre landfill off Route 73 near the Tacony Palmyra Bridge. The SCI alleged that the landfill, located next to the Pennsauken Creek and the Palmyra Cove Nature Center , took in construction debris and potentially hazardous waste materials. It was only supposed to be a recycling and mulching operation.
Palmyra authorities later filed a lawsuit in the landfill dumping case to force the cleanup of the site.
NJ’s Attorney General also filed suit against the former landfill owners and operators, Fillit Corp., after the state Department of Environmental Protection filed enforcement actions against Fillit and Jersey Recycling Services LLC, demanding that they clean up the site and pay penalties.
Sirkin was also named as a co-defendant in the state’s lawsuit.
Merlino is set to finish his federal sentence at the end of July.
