 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going out do some court reporting from New York City the five families. He's one of the last people if not the last person to be sentenced prosecutors were he caught the plea they cut everybody in that case caught the global plea back in the summer, which means everybody cops in the same way. Chargers in case prosecutors wanted the claw to do two to three years. Judge ends up giving him one year like 14 months. If he does good time, he'll be home in 11 reasons coming from his attorney is his failing health. It seems to be par for the course anybody over 70 goes to court they're going to be talking about their failing health whether or not their health is failing or not. So, Benji Castellazo now is going to go away for about a year. He's the underboss he's been underboss often on since the 2000s according to his detention memo got the promotion in 2008 held it to 2011 had to go do a three or four year jail sentence and came out around 15 and has held the underboss post in the humble organization since then, a guy that for a lot of times in the in his underboss duties was holding court at a Brooklyn parking garage. Later on, in more recent times in, you know, spent a lot of time in New Jersey, moved his residence in New Jersey, and was like in between a house, retirement home, and a trailer. I'm told that the trailer is him kind of feigning financial destitution being destitute that he has no real financial stability. In reality, I think he does I'm told that he does. But you know for the government that's chasing money whether it be restitution based on, you know, he's got a long rap sheet. In his later years he's been spending some time with us with his wife or his, his widow I'm not sure if she's still alive in a, in a trailer park was also in a retirement home. You know, it was interesting to see this Colombo case that came down in the fall of 21. A lot of the big fish were geriatrics, Benji Castellazo the boss Andy Mushrooso who died before trial. Concilieri, a big Ralphie de Matteo, who got sentenced I think to three years back a month or two ago. He's pushing 70. And then the, the really the, you know, the big fish in terms of the future is Teddy Perceco who got a five year sentence. He's the heir apparent in the Colombo crime family now but Benji Castellazo another thing that came out of this court hearing was, there's always been some debate about his nickname. When he was coming out of court, a reporter from the New York Post asked him where his nickname came from. He said, Oh, I used to be a carpenter and then kind of chuckled. I've seen some, some FBI records and documentations and detention memo and I think on the street, it's, it's believed that his nickname the claw came from very early on in his days as a mob guy he could claw his way into scores that weren't necessarily his. And then another thing that came out of that detention memo that I find newsworthy and want to share is that according to the federal government, even though he was under boss he has conducted making ceremonies on his own. I believe the first one he conducted was in 2009, and they alleged there's been some other ceremonies. Since then, including ceremony since he got out in the mid 2010s and in more recently so he's got quite a bit of stature he's a guy that I know was very trusted by the persicos and, and was dispatched, you know, to numerous other crime around the country to a politic and, you know, he's been under boss now for 15 years, got to go do a year in prison but he'll be back before you know it. Scott Bernstein og pod out.