 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going to New York City and we're gonna welcome home Bonanno acting capo Robert little Robert. We know who was a Rising star in the family in the 1990s cop the plea and I believe 2001 that participated in two mob hits Was the point man for the entire New York LCN down in Wall Street in the late 90s with the internet stock boom He was the he was he was the pump and dump King he was the guy that kind of Blueprinted how to make money in this new tech age that was coming upon us in the late 90s it was a consolidation of all the different five families coming together to create a kind of an investment company and Have little Robert and one of the persicos from the Columbus Runpoint for it and they cleared like 50 million a year or something with these classic pump and dump schemes with internet stock Perspectives and Predictions and manipulations. It's what you saw in season two of the Sopranos with Christopher Maltesante and The two Chippendales who ended up getting killed for trying to kill Christopher Maltesante, but it was basically that That story arc in the Sopranos was based on what little Robert was At the forefront of for not just the bananas, but all five families comes from a very rich mafia lineage like something like over a half dozen of his Uncles and grand-grandfather and dad all were made guys different families I believe his dad Bobby lino senior was a banana is one of his either cousins I believe maybe his uncle, but I think it's his cousin a curly lino Frank curly lino was a capo for Joe Massino In the Bananos as well Some of the other lino's were in the Gambino's I believe but a little Robert Back on the scene after 24 years in a halfway house What's notable about his plea that he took back in 2001 was that the judge? Nicholas Garoffus has been in the news quite a bit He seems to be just the the mafia judge in the federal court system right now handling all the major cases especially the Bananos he Didn't want to accept the plea that that lino put was gonna That he had worked out with the prosecutors In 2001 which gave him 30 years Garoffus kind of scoffed at it at first But it was too lenient because lino was admitting to his role in two mafia hits But had a change of heart accepted the plea. He's done about 24 of the 28 so years And just last week walked into a halfway house Remains to be seen where he slots into the Bananos right now. He's only 57 Very close to Bruno and delicato and Knows Mikey Mancuso pretty well, so we'll see where he lands in in this Current Banano landscape, but I would guess that at least at first he's Gonna lean on Bruno and some other people that that he's close with from back in the day a lot of those people Were part of the Massino administration are long and gone either dead or in witness protection He's you know, he stood strong And stood tall and didn't buckle under the pressure It should be also noted that you know, he took part in two pretty high-profile mafia murders as I've mentioned 1990 he killed a banana aspiring banana button man Louis Tuzio who had botched a Murderer and ended up shooting a Gambino guy in the middle of the murder God he wanted the guy's head Went from Salvatore vital I believe to Anthony Spiro and then the contract was given to Louie and and and somebody else. I believe it was Dirty Danny on jelly and then in They killed him in Brooklyn behind his You have a Chevy sports car. They they unloaded on him in in the behind the wheel And then in 1992 he was on the cleanup crew in the Bobby Perino murder Bobby Perino for people that might not remember Was the you know boots on the ground for the Bananos newspaper distribution rackets at the New York Post He was the son-in-law of Nikki glasses and Nikki Marangello and then the underboss under Carmine Galante and This was a Very a dramatic hit in the sense that Perino goes to what he thinks is a mob meeting. He's shot They believed he was was killed. I believe the trigger man was Baldo Amato and the cleanup team which Bobby Lee or little Robert Lino and and dirty Danny Manjelli were part of came To take the body away and dispose of it and they realized that he was still alive Somebody I'm not sure who took an ice pick and finished him off They ended up burying him in a I think in Stanton Island in a in a construction company Building site dug him up about 20 years ago. So Robert Lino back on the scene in New York City. He was the The guru when it came to Mafia Wall Street rackets back in the 90s a guy that was on the fast track And we'll see where he lands in the 2024 mob landscape in the Big Apple for OG pot on Scott Bernstein