 Welcome into a quick hitter edition of the OG podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein We're going to be doing a lot of these kind of mini episodes where we kind of rapid fire some breaking news or or hit some hot button topics That maybe don't warrant a full hour long episode Today, I'm going to talk about the release from state prison of Genovese soldier Vito Alberti Well, very high ranking soldier that work right underneath OG Genovese capo Chuckie Tuzo Chuckie. I think he's still alive. He's all he's like 90 years old right now He got busted with Alberti in the 2010s by the New Jersey State Police for running a multitude of rackets Sports gambling Backdoor casino gambling Extortion loan sharking Labor racketeering so forth and so forth drugs I believe and Both got hit with five-year sentences Alberti did about four and a half and Walked out. He's 64 years old when the bus came down he was Tuzo's guy in New Jersey and reported directly to Tuzo and and Genevieve Genevieve's administrators wasn't your traditional soldier was a little bit more elite than a just a run-of-the-mill button man and Alberti was someone that is very connected and has always had ties into other crime families in Had has had rackets in New York, New Jersey parts of Pennsylvania and I think the real noteworthy point when you're talking about Alberti's criminal resume, if you will is the fact that he was deeply involved in what Was being planned as a A violent coup at the top of the Philadelphia Mafia back In the first couple months of 2000s. It was going to be a hostile takeover by New Jersey Capo Pete the crumb Caprio who was the Bruno scarf of cramp crime family's guy in North Jersey and Caprio was an old school guy that had a lot of connections in New York City and he he Throughout the mid to late 90s had acted as the Philly Mafia's go-between with the New York bosses and Alberti was his guy that he would reach out to in the Genovese crime family They were had they had some joint rackets Alberti was close to another Genovese skipper Lawrence Ricci who they called Dairy Larry because he had a lot of interest in the Milk game the bit in the milk business he was related to a Philadelphia mob member in the Jersey crew of Beepsie Centurino and Caprio Got sanctioning from the Genovese crime family and the Gambino crime family To murder the then sitting in administration of the Philadelphia Mafia guys that are still active or semi-active today and the plan was for for a Caprio to kill then acting boss, Uncle Joe Legambi Under boss handsome Stevie Mazone and then conciliary Georgie boy for Gacy Today Legambi is in semi-retirement and is acting as conciliary Mazone is still under boss. He just reported to prison. He's got to do about five years six years on another racketeering case and Borgesi is according to my sources the acting boss of the Philadelphia Mafia right now and Alberti backed this play and was going to help Caprio kill those three and Take over the family and the plan was to lure the Gambi Mazone and Borgesi to a meeting in New Jersey that was going to be under the pretense of getting Legambi sanctioned or Introduced to the New York Dons Legambi was Just taking over as acting boss for skinny Joey Marlino who we all know about and Marlino What that point was going to do his first real big prison sentence a dozen years for for a racketeering and he had reported to prison in 99 and this was early 2000 and the Gambi needed intros and That was what was going to get them to this meeting and the plan was to shoot them I think some of the plan involved like machine guns and then they were gonna with the help of B to Alberti were they were gonna bury them in a pre-dug grave in New Jersey and Caprio was going to be taken to New York by Alberti Ricci and a Gambino guy by the name of Tony Proto and was going to be Named the the boss the godfather of Philadelphia It never happened before it was pulled off Caprio was snagged in a racketeering indictment and flipped and told the US Attorney and FBI all about you know his intentions and who he was plotting with what's also Very interesting in regards to this plot that that Caprio was Blueprinting out with the Genovese and the Gambino's was he was according to my sources was receiving coaching and An aide in some regards by Ralph Natali who was the previous boss of the Philadelphia mafia who had flipped and was preparing to testify against Merlino and at least Borghazi and Mazzone in a year from then at trial and Even though he was in a witness protection wing having cut a deal to To testify become the first sitting my boss to ever Take the stand he was caught on wiretaps Talking to Caprio talking to people that he knew in new in in New York and the five families I believe he was talking to Alberti and the Italian Alberti had done prison time together in the 1980s and Ralph was trying to play both sides of the fence and Who knows what would have happened if if Caprio had pulled off the plot? but whether it was simply Ralph was mad at at the joy Merlino crew who had pushed him out of power And was just trying to get back at him Or he thought he could somehow finesse his way back And reneged on his cooperation. I don't know Ralph was was a legend in his own mind Although personally, I actually like Ralph a lot. I got to sit with him For about six months initially on his book hit the siren Benny I'm on a book project that I ended up leaving and being replaced on but I liked him personally, but who knows what his end game was there, but it never it never got Off the ground But Alberti is coming back now I mean he'd been on he was on the street for for quite a bit after that whole thing blew up So if there was gonna be any repercussions, I believe they would have already been carried out But it's it's it's interesting to note that you know from around the time that Alberti went away in 19 2019 Georgie Borghese I Do believe around that time was was taken over as acting boss before he had just been a copo and had been in prison for a long stretch and I don't presume to be in anybody's head, but I would That money that that Georgie Borghese Joe the Gamby and Steven Mazzone Haven't forgotten about Alberti being involved in that in that in that plot. So Again, I'm not predicting anything any retribution, I think if it if there was gonna be retribution it would already happened but hopefully they'll they'll mend fences, I know that the Genovese are still very connected into Philly when Chickie Changalini died Back in the earlier in the spring late winter. There was a contingent of Genovese that came to the funeral. So Vito Alberti is is is a free man after four years in state prison You know where he fits into the Genovese rackets in New Jersey right now, you know, we will see You know, if there's a promotion in his future, we will see if He you know, he goes back To what he was doing before whether whether he has an you know an increased Level of responsibility only time will tell but we'll be there to report it We like bringing you these these quick these quick hitters whether we're talking about guys getting out of prison guys going to prison guys getting arrested Promoted demoted. 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