 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein would have head out to Brooklyn right now and Give an update on the Colombo family the big indictment from a couple years ago that dropped in the fall 2021 most of or I should say all of the the people I believe in that case have had their Their situation adjudicated Consolieri big Ralphie Dima tail faced the judge for his sentencing last week. He's going to do three years and You know, I'm fascinated by by big Ralphie because he's one of these real, you know true sleepers um a guy he's from graves in Brooklyn Oh, that's that's ground zero for the colombos in the persico mafia dynasty, but I had never heard of of Ralphie Dima tail as any type of a player Whether it be a high-ranking soldier or a couple regime Until that the case dropped two two years ago and he's listed as the conciliary number three in the whole organization So, you know, he's done a good job of keeping his head down even though he's got a arrest record that dates back to the 1970s he's got two brothers that were that are in the colombo crime family And took a drug bust back in the 80s for for move an H heroin bust did a nice little chunk in in the feds and then At some point I think in the late 90s early 2000s He was caught up in a kind of wall street scam In the kind of the financial wing Of of the of the colombo crime family in the kind of white collar financial scams that they were running he was he was running a money laundry for cash and You know big profits that the colombos were making from a scams on wall street. He was washing all the money Got nailed in that case and then you know kept his nose clean for for, you know two decades until he came He got busted in this case uh with the administration andy musruzo the boss. He's He's died he died before uh, he he either pled or or went in front of a jury and then Under boss, uh, benji the claw castelazo pled out. He's going to do five years Good chance. He might die. He died in there. He's 85 years old right now, but ralfi dematio he's 68 You would think that he's a major cog in this family going forward. He'll come out. He'll be about 70 If he's doing, you know, if it's a three-year sentence, so he'll get into a halfway house in two and two and a half years You know the acting boss right now of the colombos little rob denofrio. He's from brooklyn Uh, and then just as we so you got you would think and then you know, obviously skinny teddy persco the boss and waiting would be coming home and four or five years from now All right, you think that dematio would be a um a big piece of that puzzle in terms of leaving this this family Going into the 2020s and 2030s. Um It's it's just a note to say that in his detention memo that was filed dematio was conducting business from the metro detention center in uh In brooklyn after the bust um before he made bond he was Wheeling and dealing on on prison phones and calling back to brooklyn and telling people to You know Get all your ducks in a row. Don't talk to certain people. Be sure that this guy gets this message So they got him really early on in that case Proving the government's case Which you know could be a reason why he pled out, but you know within 24 24 hours 48 hours of him being picked up back in 2021. He's on the phone Direct in traffic, uh, you know telling people what to do and where to go. Uh, he's from graves end and like I said, that's uh That's the epicenter. You know the nerve center of the colombo crime family brooklyn is not necessarily gravestone, but uh, you know, uh, brooklyn and and the persicos and they obviously trust Big raffy dematio quite a bit and I would expect him to be a Big player going forward, you know guys when they reach, uh, you know in the mafia you're you're Oftentimes your your golden age Is both literal and figurative. You're an older guy. Let's say in your 60s 70s Even the 80s and that's when you're most in most crime families kind of reaching the pinnacle I mean, there are obviously exceptions, but a lot of times guys don't reach their highest level in the mob until they're Collecting social security, but you know, you think that about dematio has got a good 15 years left And he's he's only gonna go away from the two So, uh, he's gone from in front of three years. Big raffy dematio I just wanted to give a breakdown on him and the colombo crime family. I'm scott bernstein. Oh g pot