 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein today. We're going to take you to New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island. And we're going to talk about a brewing situation that's been machinations of this over the last couple of years regarding little Rob DeNofrio, who is the new acting boss of the Colombo mob and some disputes he's had with the Gambino crime family and their leadership and how his promotion this past year to the acting boss spot from a capital position could affect this dispute. And the dispute relates to little Rob's son-in-law, a guy named Mike Scott, who was a young aspiring button man with the Gambino's. He's married to little Rob's daughter. And I guess little Rob hasn't been thrilled with some of the treatment that Mr. Scott has been giving to his daughter. And there have been a number of altercations between little Rob and Mike Scott. Little Rob's 67, Scott was 37, so a 30-year age difference here. And over the last handful of years before he became the acting boss, there was a series of sit downs where little Rob met with Gambino's to try to get his son-in-law shelved, prevented from earning as well as blocking him from getting a button, getting made into Gambino's. Scott is a kind of Gambino royalty to a degree. His bloodline is in that Scott labor union, waterfront, racketeering dynasty that goes back to tough Tony Anastasio and Anthony Scotto. Mike Scotto's uncle is Big Billy Scotto, who was a made guy in the Gambino's. And from what I'm told, what's Mike Scotto's ace in the hole, which has allowed him to stay on the street and continue to earn, even though he has not received a button yet, according to my sources, is his close relationship with some of the OG Gambino's, even though this guy is in his 30s. Besides his uncle, Billy Scotto, he's very close and in the good graces of the Corozo brothers, specifically little Nicky Corozo, was a John Gotti, loyalist, a skipper, guy that was on the ruling panel for a while. And I guess Mike Scotto did time with Nicky Corozo in the 2010s. Scotto got nailed in Danny Moreno's crew, prostitution, extortion, and a slew of other racketeering counts, went to jail for, I think, three or four years and got close to Nicky Corozo, or maybe had been close before, but got particularly close to him behind bars. And I'm hearing that that is what has prevented little Rob from successfully getting Mike Scotto kind of persona non grata within the five families. Although he doesn't have a button, he's still active. And I know little Rob has been pushing to have him made inactive. I know one of the last sit-downs I'm told that occurred. I'm not sure if this was when Rob was boss, or acting boss or before, that an administrator from the Gambino's sat in on that, in that sit-down. So I know that the FBI as well as some mob powers in both of these families are kind of monitoring the situation and see how Rob being the acting boss affects this domestic situation. And for people that don't know, little Rob was married to a reality television star way before she became a reality television star, but a big inch from the mob wives was little Rob's first wife. And he never got, didn't get in trouble for her participation in the mob wives the way that TG over in the Bananos got in trouble for his daughters being, they weren't just participants, they were the catalysts, they were the people that created the show. But one of Rob's offspring with Big Ange is the person that he feels is being mistreated by Mike Scoto and wants him off the street. So we'll keep this top of mind and I'll keep on going back to my sources and tell you what I find as 2024 goes on and see if little Rob can get some more traction in this effort to get his son-in-law shelved now that he's acting boss of the Colombo crime family. For OG Pod, I'm Scott Bernstein out.