 Welcome back into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein another quick hitter edition. We're heading out to New York right now to talk about the return home of Colombo crime family Capo Joey Amato is home after four years. Major moneymaker the king of Staten Island a guy that got inducted into the family right before the war broke out was a member of the arena rebel faction fighting against the Percival mafia dynasty went to prison for 15 years for federal racketeering tied to the war in the 90s came out of prison in the late 2010s and quickly ingratiated himself back into the packing order and was able to make amends for going against the persicos gained the trust of of the persicos again got named a capo took over some of the old territory of his his mentor patio model no relation some some queens some brooklyn and and then planted a flag in Staten Island one of the biggest loan sharks in New York over the last 30 30 years i'm told that he's close to the new colombo octin boss little rob dino frio back from their days uh under patty amato and wild bill cattolo vittorio arena little vic and both dino frio and amato are now kind of still standing and thriving uh dino frio made the move from the rebel faction to the persicos in the middle of the war and amato uh stayed true to arena to the very end but has been pretty slick in his ability to politic his way back in to the good graces of the persicos and uh got tied up in a 2019 rico case out of staten island it was in a lot of headlines got a lot of tabloid coverage because in 2016 it looks like that investigation was sparked by a series of harassments uh or maybe stalking that joy amato was doing of a girlfriend and had his crew planting gps devices on transportation that this woman was taking and put a gps on a city bus that got discovered um eventually goes down in 2019 cops the plea in 21 had already been sitting behind bars for two years did another two now he's out it's the third copo from the colombo crime family to be released to taste freedom in in 2023 follows on the heels of chuckie russo and um tommy shots giolly former street boss and then an old timer veteran soldier joe montalione also came out so well that's three new copos even though skinny teddy persico the the boss in waiting has to go away for five years he's got little rob in place uh calling shots everybody's got faith in little rob but joy amato now back in the mix it should be interesting to see how that plays out um you know he's a big money maker and is very capable has been around for a long time he's 64 looks like he's probably got on the 20 years or so um and you know is a guy that for all we know could be you know in a future administration post uh in the colombo organization but joy amato is free he hit the halfway house last week i think he's official release is january of of 24 but he'll be in the halfway house uh through the holidays welcome home joey eight for benny behind the glass and our co-conspirator jimmy buchelada will be back on another full episode of the og pod scott bernstein out