 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick kid or aditution breaking news out of New York City. The death of a former Don Jackie the nose D'Amico confidante to John Gotti long time Gambino skipper and then acting boss in the 2000s has passed away. He was 86 years old died of natural causes this past weekend. A lot of buzz throughout New York right now. This was a guy that was beloved in all five boroughs. A lot of respect from different factions not just in the Gambino crime family but in other parts of New York as well as other parts of the country and other parts of the world. We reported that the Italian media noted that Jackie knows D'Amico was in Sicily this past summer. Taking a meeting with a Sicilian Don caught dining on a patio. So this is a guy that was semi active until the very end. I'm told that he served in a advisory capacity to the guys that are running the Gambino's right now the Sicilian or zip faction that he was integral and bringing some of these guys into the fold with the Gambino's in the John Gotti era came up with you know came up around Gotti and ozone park in the 60s and 70s eventually became a captain in Brooklyn had that rackets in New Jersey and when some of these zips that have been run in the family in the last decade Frankie Boy Callie Lorenzo Monino they were close to Jackie knows when they were young especially Frankie Boy Callie they were they were put in Frankie Boy Callie was put in Jackie knows his crew when he was a young button so you know a guy that John Gotti trusted more than most when John Gotti was making the rounds in the in the 80s hitting all the hot spots in New York City going to Vegas going to Atlantic City going to all the big boxing matches often you would see Jackie knows right next to him or right behind them on its flank and then after Gotti was gone and the Gotti regime was over with the Gotti faction was kind of transitioning out of power in the Gambino's he was one of the the bridges between the the Gotti regime and then this new Sicilian regime that's been in power for the last 10 to 12 years and he was the boss from about 2005 till he got busted in 2008 went to prison for four years came home in 12 and has been you know quiet but very respected and was someone that I'm told Lorenzo Monino the reputed acting boss of the Gambino's has been you know taking counsel from advice from using him as a sounding board and again everybody love Jackie knows this is a guy that made a lot of money this is a guy that knew the rules and you know knew the the etiquette and the the protocol and was able to you know slide through the life or or tip tiptoe through the landmines where he didn't die in prison like John Gotti he didn't die in the streets like Paul Castellano so you know 86 years old lived a pretty remarkable life when you take into uh into the La Cosa Nostra context and and now he's gone so from the Gambino family Jackie the knows D'Amico gone at 86 years old OG pod Scott Bernstein I'm out