 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going to head over to New York City. The five families and talk about three OGs that have passed away recently or this year in 2023 to button men and one high level associate. So we'll start with most high ranking button guy was Anthony Rottolo aka Tony McGinney was in New Jersey. Genevase crime family soldier worked under Bobby Manna, John DeGilio and came over from Italy as a young man in the 1950s had operations going in New Jersey parts of New York parts of Florida had a pretty long rap sheet. This last bus was in the early 2000s down in Florida and the Orlando area him and his father in law were loaning out money and bookmaking and then they were also this is very like something storyline right out of the sopranos what he was sell Rottolo was selling black market direct TV packages and equipment and we had a surveillance audio record audio tape made that eventually made it the recording made it into the court record in the 1990s where Rottolo was grabbing a debtor sticking his head into a toilet flushing the toilet and threatened to kill him if he didn't pay that in the 80s and early 90s Rottolo made his headquarters at Sir John's pub in Jersey City. Like I said, very close to a conciliary Bobby Manna as well as Capo John DeGilio who would be murdered for mounting his own defense at a racketeering case where he defended himself was his was his own attorney and the way he defended himself upset the powers that be and Genevase he ended up dead. But Tony Mottolo lived into was 80s passed away a couple weeks ago rest in peace to Mr. Rottolo. We have a OG button man from back from the 50s fast Eddie Bonica again being from Brooklyn. He passed away back in February. Got his button in a ceremony in the I believe it was 1956. And, you know, one of the oldest ranking highest most tenured made men in America when he passed away back in the winter. And then just in the last couple days, a Lucchese associate of valued cog in the Lucchese crime kingdom for years Gary Maduri, who was a right hand man to conciliary Joey D Joe Denapoli. He passed away last week at 69 natural causes peacefully at his home in White Plains, New York. And Maduri is another another one of these guys that although he didn't have a button, he was at the side and had the ear of, you know, the, the, the most powerful guys in the Luccheses in the 2010s. Joey D Madi Madonna and Stevie Korea. He ran the Denapoli gambling operations helped Madi Madonna with some of his gambling operations. He was known as a great handicapper, great bookmaker, great guy. Everyone loved Gary from from what I understand. A guy that was trusted like he was a made guy, even though I don't believe you had this button. And at one point, I think he actually lived with Joe Denapoli. So that's interesting. I went down in operation heat with Denapoli and Madonna back in the 2000s, which was a New Jersey state police bus. And then just to double back to Eddie Benica, fast Eddie, I believe he was a veteran and served in the military in World War Two on a naval naval barge in the South Pacific. So they don't make them like that anymore. Last of the Mohicans. So just wanted to send our regards out to those five figures, those, those three guys in the five families that passed away either recently or earlier in 2003. Tony Ritolo, Gary Maduri and fast Eddie Benica. Scott Bernstein, OG pod out.