 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein. We are going to discuss the most recent bust in New York City of a crew of one of the five families, the Gambino's 10 guys that are either members of the Gambino's or close associates of the Gambino's, including some Sicilian mob guys that are operating out of New York and New Jersey under the Gambino umbrella were indicted under racketeering extortion charges out of Brooklyn last week. And the lead defendant is Joe Brooklyn, Joe Lonnie, who they call Joe Brooklyn. He's the capo of the Gambino's Sicilian branch. He's a guy that came up under Frank Cali, Frankie Boy Cali, Lorenzo Monino, Tall Pete in Zarello, some real real powerhouses. And he was in the news last month earlier this fall for an assault case that he took out of New Jersey. State police or state authorities in New Jersey have charged him with multiple counts of assault related to an incident in September at the Roxy Bar and Grill in Tom's River, New Jersey, where him and his driver is bodyguard, a guy named Vinny Slick or nicknamed Vinny Slick. Mincecaro, I believe his last name is was also one of the 10 people that were indicted, were acting unruly and had gotten drunk and gotten into a tiff with another patron, the owners of the Roxy Bar and Grill, tossed them out as they were leaving. They made a big to do a disruption. Vinny Slick took his hand and punched the wall, took a painting off the wall and threw it down. Joe Brooklyn threatened to come back and torch the place with everybody inside it. Actually went to a gas station and tried to or maybe did purchase a tank or a gasoline like you would take in a container or like if you ran out of gas on the side of the road and he was going to take it over to the restaurant, Vinny Slick convinced him not to anyway, according to the police report they waited for the owners of the Roxy Bar and Grill to come out just September 2nd, early hours of September 2nd and they attacked them, slashed the wheels to their SUV, threatened to kill them. That is not a charge or account included in this particular racketeering indictment which is tied to the trash hauling demolition construction industry. And if you've been consuming the news over the last week, you've gotten the highlights, I'm sure. To me the most interesting part of this is kind of the game within a game when we're talking about the Sicilian faction of the Gambinos which have been in power now over a decade and you know took over in the late 2000s into the 2010s with Italian Don Cefalu and Frankie Boy Cali, now Lorenzo Monino. And if you read the indictment, you read the detention memo, it's interesting to note that the Sicilians that were busted in this or the Sicilians in general that are operating in the United States that are made on the other side and are operating with the protection, cooperation of the Gambinos aren't allowed to attend making ceremonies. There was a making ceremony according to this detention memo October 2019, Danny Tantillo and Joey, or sorry, Jimmy Laforte were made into the Gambinos and these are guys that are underneath Joe Brooklyn. Jimmy Laforte's grandfather was Joe Laforte who was a John Gotti, Neil De La Croche, Capo Regime and a big time real estate guy owned all the property in little Italy where the Ravenette social club was. And there's a text exchange that's included in the detention memo of Danny Tantillo talking to a guy who's also in this bus, a Sicilian mob soldier named Vito Rapi and Rapa couldn't attend the ceremony for Tantillo to get his button in the Gambinos despite the fact that he was one of the people that helped him rise through the ranks and the morning that Tantillo is going to get made, I think it was October 17, 2019, he gets a text from Rapa saying they're trying to talk in code but it's pretty obvious. Good morning, congratulations on the new job and I hear you're signing the contract tonight, I wish I could be there. It will be like I'm there, I'm so proud of you and then Tantillo responds, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you and there are great things on the horizon but it's interesting to note that even the Sicilian mob guys that have their button that are made guys from Sicily operating as members of the Gambino crime family for all intents and purposes in the United States aren't allowed to go to those making ceremonies. You think that since the Gambino Sicilian wing is in charge of that whole organization they might take that rule and eliminate it, maybe they're the ones that put the rule in on the first place, I don't know but I found it interesting. The detention memo also references the assault that Joe Brooklyn and Vinny Slick are alleged to have perpetrated within the 48 hours between when Vinny Slick and Joe Brooklyn get booted out of the Roxy Bar and Grill, they or I should say Joe Brooklyn is alleged to have called the two of the owners of the Roxy Bar and Grill 40 times in like a 26-hour period or something and they have him I believe recorded telling the owner that he needs to beg for his life and beg for forgiveness. It's pretty incriminating and damning for Joe Lani who is again the capo of that Gambino faction. It should also be said that we know that Lani is very close to Minino based on a report from Gangland News that Lani attended kind of a state funeral with Lorenzo Minino back in December of 2022 where former Lucchese under boss Frank Lasterino, his funeral in Wake was attended by Minino, the reputed acting boss or street boss of the Gambinos and Joe Lani was flanking him. So we'll keep you updated but it's interesting to dissect the indictment and just see that there was this kind of the banning of the zips, the real zips from American-making ceremonies. But we'll keep you updated with this case as it goes through the court system. I'm Scott Bernstein for the OGPod, out.