 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition we're going to go out to New York City and we're going to update everybody on what's going on with the big skinny joey podcast controversy and how it's being dealt with in New York City amongst the five families we were the first to report a couple weeks ago about Barney Belomo and Lorenzo Monino of the Genovese and Gambino crime families respectively have made a no podcast order a directive for Joey to take the podcast down off the internet immediately as everybody knows Joey Merlino the long time alleged boss of the Philadelphia mob the coolest most you know pop culture influential mafia Don of the last quarter century not you know if you had kind of read the tea leaves leading up to this not necessarily crazy that he jumped on to social media and it's not being received very well it's been going on about six seven months right now the story that we're reporting right now is that Mikey Mancuso Mikey the nose of the Bananos is chiming in after Genovese and Gambino's have made their edict and imposed a what I'm being told is a leverage embargo where they're telling their respective troops in their crime family that they can't do any business with Philadelphia right now until this is all settled I heard there's a series of meetings that have been taking place and Mike Mancuso's in jail everybody knows you serve in a year for a supervised release violation and he was a you know kind of at an adversarial posture with Barney and Lorenzo Manino about a year ago regarding kind of his house being a little bit of a mess and the unrest with within his camp that was causing fireworks and Barney and Lorenzo didn't like the way it looked and they put a temporary leverage embargo on relations business relations with the Bananos and it worked according to my sources they're trying the same play with Joey so Mancuso has chimed in and is telling all of his crime family no social media everybody should not be on any Facebook Twitter Snapchat TikTok Instagram if they're not on they're not allowed to go on and if they are on I'm told that Mancuso wants them off immediately he's sent word through his best friend and acting boss right now's under boss Johnny Joe Spurrito and his nephew protege Ernie Aiello are going around and letting everybody know what's coming from Mike you know is in prison and I've also been told that Johnny Joe has taken meetings with lieutenants in the Genovese and Gambino to let Barney and Lorenzo know that that Mikey knows is kind of in lockstep behind them in terms of not agreeing with what Joey Merlino is doing and wanting him to take the the podcast down but I'm told that Mikey knows has not imposed any restriction on his troops for doing any business with with Philadelphia but he wants everybody off social media immediately this is not playing well in the Big Apple that's not a surprise but it seems to be the momentum against Joey and and and his guys in Philadelphia that are supporting him seem to be the momentum seems to be going against them right now and tensions seem to be brewing faster and I'm not saying that there's going to be any violence I don't predict any violence nobody's going to get killed or beaten this is pure politics but Barney Belomo who is the boss of bosses this is pretty much undisputed a leader of the west side reported in the past that he feels personally slighted he helped Joey become boss 25 years ago and kind of by unconventional means feels like you know he sanctioned him he he greenlit the the administration when he had some other bosses in New York that were trying to delegitimize him and he feels like this looks bad upon him Lorenzo and and Barney from what I told feel like this could set a precedent and allow other made guys to jump on and become social media brands and influencers and have podcasts so but it's interesting to see that Mancuso is chiming in from behind bars he'll be coming out in August and it looks like things have calmed down there we all know what was happening last last year and that upset people in other crime families like Barney and Lorenzo I also want to note as I wrap this up that I'm being told that the one support base that Joey has right now in addition to the people that are you know in his inner circle uh are the Jersey uh Pernicrew uh that little Joey Perna and his cousin big Joey and uh those guys are supporting Joey and saying that you know if he wants to do this it's his his right to do whatever he wants and it's not going to affect business that we're doing with the the Philly guys so only time will tell we're being told there's a lot of meetings going back and forth and I'll let everyone know what what I'm hearing but as of right now as of the last couple weeks Mikey the old Mancuso uh from prison sent word to the street no social media for the banana rink and file Scott Bernstein og pod out