Murder Suspect: Mob Boss' Wife Had Abortion Trip For Abortion Used As Alibi In Killing POSTED: 12:45 p.m. EST October 28, 2003 UPDATED: 12:51 p.m. EST October 28, 2003 PHILADELPHIA -- Testifying at his own murder trial, a friend of jailed mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino said he and Merlino's wife drove to Maryland so that she could get an abortion after an affair he said she had been having with a New York football player. William Rinick, who was sentenced in May to 30 years in prison on federal drug charges, is on trial in the October 2001...