 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein some real interesting news to report right now out of New York City involving the Lucchese crime family, the Genovese crime family, a three year cocaine conspiracy for a mafia princess. So back on Thursday of last week, Amanda Lebrano, who is the daughter of Lucchese heavyweight Joey Relay Lebrano and be soon to be stepdaughter of the boss of bosses, the most powerful Don in the New York underworld Barney Balomo. Amanda was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison for a three year cocaine conspiracy that she got busted in in 2023 she was moving kilos and got nailed in a sting and just cut a deal in the last month or so. So she'll do about a year lockdown and then probably a year in a halfway house but this particular situation as has caused quite a bit of tension and consternation for people in both of these crime families, a lot of finger pointing. And I'll just break down what I've heard. This whole situation was kept under wraps nobody knew about this Jerry Capesi shout out ganglion news the Don, the Dean and the Don of American mafia reporting. He reported the sentencing on Thursday this is the first we've ever heard of any of this. Amanda's mother Nancy Rossi is according to my sources the fiance of Barney Balomo, kind of the, the new love of Barney's life and they're building a big mansion together in Westchester. She lives on in City Island and she's with him quite a bit if not living there with him right now. And there's a lot of exposure or potential exposure here on both sides of this. So, there were a lot of questions I know being asked on both the Lucchese side and the Genovese side of who knew what and when, what were people aware of this wasn't a one time, you know, one time bust or a one time incident this wasn't a hand to hand. This was a three year conspiracy moving weight, moving kilos at about 22,000 a pop. You know, also kind of makes you ask some questions about who was supplying her. You know, when you're moving weight like that you got to have a really solid supply line you're not going to be getting it on the corner. So, a lot of questions I'm told that there was a sit down last month before she entered this plea deal that the top people on both of these crime families were at this sit down Barney himself was at this sit down from the Genovese side and I'm told, and you had the acting boss of Lucchese Big Mike DeSantis, and some other big, big shots and Lucchese family there with Joey Relay. And again, it got heated. That's what I'm told. It ended on a positive note hugs and handshakes to end, but during during the conversation, things got heated and you had a lot of people. And for lack of a better term pointing fingers, you had the Lucchese pointing fingers at Barney for not keeping his stepdaughter in check and then you had the Barney people telling the Lucchese that they're not keeping Joey Relay's daughter in check and that this could blow back on everybody. Joey Relay is a younger guy about 52 53. They call him Joey Relay because from a young age he was working directly for Lucchese family administrators relaying messages, and he's looked at as a guy that will most likely be in the frustration of that family in the future. Barney is Barney. The fact that Barney now has had, from what I'm told is how to take two different sit downs with bosses of other crime families in the last four or five months to deal with issues. This guy, you know, we call him the ghost because he keeps things so close to the vest and is very difficult to find a picture of this guy. It's difficult to track his movements. And he definitely doesn't want to be meet and face to face with other bosses and that's what's had to occur because of this situation. I heard that both of these, you know, from a personal standpoint, Barney and and Joey Relay are broken up about this. This is a girl that they care about a woman that they care about and she's got to have to go do some prison time right now but a lot of questions on that are yet to be answered about where where these drugs were coming from that she was selling. Who knew it who okayed it, who didn't know it I guess. So we'll keep tabs on it here but a lot of big news out of New York regarding this drug case and it's kind of the last thing I'll say about this is that for the for the Joey Merlino Watchers. This is great news. This takes Joey kind of out of the news cycle and gives the guys in New York something else to worry about something that's more prevalent today something that can actually hurt them today, not just about you know how things look and setting precedent. So it looks like the Joey Merlino podcasting controversy is kind of being put to the back burner, and now the Amanda Lubrano drug dealing controversy is at the forefront of issues with the KZs and the Genovese right now. Scott Birnstein, OG pod, I'm out.