 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition going out to the city of brotherly love. Welcome home, Sonny Mazzone, first major hitter from that 2020 racketeering case that took out a underboss, a capo and some soldiers out of the Philly Bruno Scarfield crime family Sonny Mazzone, the little brother of underboss handsome Stevie Mazzone, did about a year, a couple months just came out last week is in a halfway house. His brother's doing five Dom Grande, the capo that was that was nailed that a lot of people are calling the heir apparent to Joey Merlino will be the next boss of the Philadelphia mafia possibly he's doing about six or seven but Sonny did a year and now he's home it was his first major jail time, first major prison time so it was good to see that he could do a year and come out looking better than ever. He's a guy that a little bit more Stevie's known as a people person. I know Stevie can can get animated and and I know he can lose his temper there's that famous video from Fox 29 of him kind of losing his shit on a street corner but a little bit more mild manner than Sonny Sonny I think has a little bit from what I hear a little more hair trigger temper but is a guy that's been a loyal soldier it's been around the Merlino camp you know from the beginning I was I was surprised that according to this case that that came down in 20 everybody caught pleased to besides learning that there was a making ceremony that was caught on tape we still haven't seen the transcript but a making ceremony in in the fall of 2015 was recorded Stevie Mazzone was one of the people that was conducting the making ceremony and we found out that Sonny got his button I was surprised that Sonny it took him until you know he was in his early 50s I guess or late 40s that to get his button I thought he was a guy that probably got made earlier but it doesn't look like that case I think he's 58 right now that was nine years ago so he would have been 49 or 50 but Sonny Mazzone is out of prison Stevie still got a couple more years Don's got a couple more years but Sonny is out back in Philadelphia I'm not sure if he got to catch that uh Philadelphia Eagles loss or not but I know he's a big Eagles fan so he'll be keeping tabs on what the what the birds are doing in the off season but Sonny Mazzone again a guy that is um in very good standing somebody that has a lot of respect and someone who speaks for his his brother so over the next three or four years with with Stevie behind bars you should expect Sonny to take a more active role I would guess um that's my report right now from Philadelphia Sonny Mazzone home after a year scot-brunching OG pod out