 Welcome back into the original gangsters podcast. I am your host Scott Bernstein other quick hitter edition We're winding up summer 2023 and the og pod wants to pay our respects to A handful of wise guys across the country that cash in their chips over the last couple months Uh have gone to that big social club in the sky Some of them are were on witness protection some of them You know lived uh into their 90s. So let's start off with the biggest name here frank curly lino uh longtime capo in the banano crime family who died and witnessed protection but uh was a Major shot caller in the bananos in the 80s 90s into the 2000s when he went down with the boss joe massino and uh decided to Before joe massino joined team usa frank lino Jumped into the warm embrace of the federal government lino Dodge death famously in the 1981 three capo slain's The uh purge within the banano crime family depicted in the movie donnie brosco Uh Where three capos sonny red and delicado a big trinny chuncara chuncara And uh, phil lucky jean cone We're all Lord to what was supposed to be a peace conference At a club called the 2020 club in brooklyn lino was with those guys Uh, they showed up and the shooting started Joe massino's guys were there to slaughter everybody lino bolted out a back door Before he was killed Uh chuncara and delicado and india coney are killed Massino and rusty rastelli take power Uh in the bananos They they get rid of the threat that was being posed By that group led by suddy and delicado and frank lino not only survives it but Is promoted afterwards Takes over the crew Of bruno and delicado sonny red son Who had been a uh a captain At a very young age after taking part in the carman galante assassination And he's put on the shelf at that point a verts a murder contract. He had a 30 day You know hit on his head that the commission told The bananos they had 30 days to kill bruno, uh, or or he would get a pass he He ran out the clock if you will and you know bruno still standing right now Got released from prison after another incident having nothing to do with stuff in the 80s uh, and he's about 76 years old and Uh living his best life as as a free man but uh frank lino Uh survived it became an acting capo in in 81 full capo in 85 And then ends up flipping in 2003 or four, uh, so You know came from a long line of may guys brothers uh I believe his dad was a may guy and uh Brought his son in and and had a lot of uh a lot of linos in the new york five families So, uh, frank curly lino passed away uh Staying on the east coast Out in providence An associate of the patriarchal crime family Harpo, uh garibadian charles garibadian who everyone called harpo was a driver and messenger driver and messenger for former capo bobby the cigar deluca And helped bobby the cigar get rid of steve disaro's body the nightclub owner who was murdered in boston in 1993 and buried in providence Cadillac frank salami And disaro had a falling out over a business venture the belief that disaro was was stealing from him and was gonna Give him up to the feds Cadillac frank kills him and hands the body over to bobby the cigar his right hand in providence to get rid of disaro's corpse and bobby deluca assigns his brother joe and harpo garibadian to get rid of the body they buried it behind an old textile mill Body got dug up back in 2016 salamis put on trial for it bobby deluca is the star witness salamis convicted the deluca brothers both testified joe deluca died earlier this summer we gave him you know We we told everyone about his passing and and called it up for you last month So he's not going to make it in this uh in this video of paying our respects But harpo garibadian had actually died before him, but we didn't find out about it he died in april but harpo when when bobby was in his glory as a uh a big time mafia player in New england harpo garibadian was his shadow and drove him everywhere back in the late 80s bobby deluca before he was even a made guy was almost personally responsible for making the peace between the warring factions in that family representing providence and boston respectively he was the one that was meddling for the patriarca junior crew and vinnie uh ferrara the animal and uh j ruso who You know for all bobby deluca's flaws and i'm sure if you talk to guys in providence there's They they would have a long list of complaints, but he was a guy that was very adept at Politicking between mafia organizations. Um, and the fact that he was trusted Uh, wasn't even a made guy, but he was trusted to middle for these two You know the the two warring factions in new england at that time shows you how much respect he got Eventually got made a couple months after that his brother jota luka got made for taking part in the steve disarro murder a harpo garibadian was Armenian so we couldn't get made but uh, he was on the witness list for that 2018 catalac franc so let me try I was given immunity Never testified to his dying day. He insisted. He had nothing to do with the steve disarro murder I'm sure federal prosecutors might tell you differently but uh harpo garibadian was around all of Everything all the craziness that was going on in new england in the late 80s into the early 90s Harpo garibadian had a had a front row seat to it as as the driver and right-hand man to bobby the cigar to luka So he passed away Let's let's move over into the midwest talk about A guy a very underrated mob presence uh from the pennsylvania From the state of pennsylvania the commonwealth of pennsylvania uh, cesar monovecchio was from you know Erie pennsylvania did a lot of work. Uh, was a was a high end burglar and thief Did a lot of work with multiple crime families pittsburgh cleveland Some of the five families detroit chicago philadelphia He was kind of a utility player and his name Came up as a suspect in the two most Notorious gangland slain's and eerie pennsylvania history uh, monovecchio Eventually pled guilty At a third degree homicide in the 1983 murder of frank bolo dovishaw who was the city's biggest bookmaker Uh, monovecchio and a group of other people from other Crime families wanted a piece of that book or wanted the entire book And they killed him for it and You know in terms of headline grabbing the 1980 murder of Uh, a police officer in eerie Uh, you know, I think if you talk to people in eerie, it's The most iconic unsolved murder in the history of eerie and uh The the police officer's last name was owin And he was shot uh while on patrol There's never been any arrests a lot of investigation. I believe the investigation is still open to today Back at that time when monovecchio was running burglary rackets in that area. He had you know Horns of police officers on the payroll Um, it was alleged that this officer owin was one of those people and uh, was hours away from having to retake a polygraph exam um from investigators related to this string of robberies that monovecchio was allegedly at the Forefront of and the night before he was supposed to Take that polygraph. He was shot. That was in 1980 Monovecchio always claimed he had nothing to do with it and it was never charged But his name surfaced as a suspect um came out of you know He eventually testified against people in the bolushaw case Did like seven or eight years came out of prison in the 90s and retired. He's been You know had gone dark the last 25 years of his life um in ohio old old time bookie Tony arnone. I believe he was in his 90s or late 80s He passed away this spring went all the way back to the Scallish crime family in in the 60s and 70s. He was a Very highly connected into the top levels of the cleveland mafia Very close to slain under boss leo lips mo sherry Very close to joe gallo Not the joe gallo from new york the joe gallo mafia capo in cleveland jack white angi lanardo Arnone was basing in akron The home of lebron james where leo mo leo mo sherry lived and arnone ran a huge book uh Major sports book one of the biggest books in all of ohio And again went back all the way to the late 50s 60s So he cashed in his chips and then last name i'm going to mention Uh out of philly this guy was an irish mob guy john boggs part of the famous kna gang The irish mafia and philly he passed away this summer I was in his late 70s 80s and uh, you know the one thing i'll say, you know this guy the kna guy they were They didn't just stay put in in philadelphia their their burglary crews went all across the country and uh boggs and and the guys that were running those kna burglary crews uh, you know went Spent time in north carolina houston california Doing big jobs And uh one of the things that one anecdote i'll show i'll share before we leave that i know boggs was was quoted as saying is that those guys When they'd get into a house and they would see a like a crucifix They would know it was a catholic house and their their hearts would dip because they knew that there was no money there But when they broke into a house And they saw uh a mozuzza or star david It was a jewish house They all they're they all lit up like a christmas tree because they knew that all those jewish women kept all their jewelry In the house and they were going to have a field day. So, uh, Just an interesting story from johnny boggs and how the the mind of a Of a cat burglar. So those five guys all passed away in 2023. We wanted to just let everybody know that uh They're up in that social club up in the sky Check back into og pod for another full-length episode this week with my partner in crime jimmy b. Thanks for ben behind the glass I'll see you next time scott burnt jimmy b. Thanks for ben behind the glass. I'll see you next time scott burnt jimmy b. Thanks for ben behind the glass