 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein. We're going to talk about some five families business in terms of promotions out of a gangland news dispatch. Last week it looks like hippie Zan Fardino, Michael hippie Zan Fardino, who was once known as an up and comer in the genovies crime family is now. He's come up. He's just he's a skipper, according to jerry capese over gangland news. I'm not sure what crew he took over but it was announced that where it was written that at some point after hippies released from prison on an extortion and attempted murder be from a conviction and in the 1990s came out of prison in 2016 and status has been kind of a meteoric ascent, according to patients reporting. And it's of note, you know, this is a guy that came up under Barney, the boss, you consider kind of a boss of bosses right now in New York City Barney below. The ghost on, you know, he's a shadow. Very few photos of this guy. He moves in tiptoes through the raindrops and, and everybody knows that this is the gold standard. He's, he's everything that don is should be. He does it the right way, you know, from a social academic point of view and frankly from a street point of view. He's a guy that's equally loved, feared and respected. And if Barney likes you, you know, you're going to be, you know, you're going to be a guy that is going to be a number one traffic. You're going to be, you know, destined as long as you stay on the straight and narrow, and you don't do a Ralph Coppola, you're going to be destined for big things in the crime family. Speaking of Ralph, Ralph Coppola, you know, what Barney's one time very close friend of his and acting capital was crew for a while. He was Amber Dino was very close to Ralphie. Ralphie disappeared after allegedly stealing from the crime family. Barney was away in prison. But, you know, hippie is a guy that people knew about, like I said, back in the 80s as you know, kind of a JB mobster out of Palombe. And, you know, gotten to some shootouts with the Tanglewood boys and everybody knew that this guy was going to be a force to be reckoned with and it looks like he is not a cop, according to the the reporting from Game and News. He attended the Genovese Christmas party that came up in court hearing before Christmas in a detention motion related to Anthony Rondomello and Joe Celso after they've been convicted of extortion and collected a $90,000 gambling debt. A couple days before that Celso was was jailed and it was mentioned that he attended this party with some some Genovese big shots and Ernie Mascarello was there. The reputed underboss and, you know, hippies and Latinos. It was also you look at some FBI reports from back in the day. He was also seen meeting with and doing business with Tough Tony over in Queens. So hippies a guy that everybody knows and you know, a lot of people like and like Barney. He might have the magic touch when it comes to future leadership will split. We will see. But Barney's obviously tapped him to lead a lead a regime and he's a couple right now. 55 years old, probably got another quarter century in the life. So, checking in from five families in New York City, OG pods conference.