 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick kid edition. We're going out to New York and Talking about the West Side Genevieve's crime family court news Carmine Pizza Polito Acting capo of the Genovese's little Italy crew also has territory other parts of Manhattan and Queens cop the plea from his Racketeering sports gambling extortion case this past week Sentencing guidelines for this case are pretty Moderate and I would say that this is a great deal for him. He's gonna do anywhere between 10 months in three years Probably end up doing about I would guess 18 months on a case where he was threatening to kill people. They got him on Recordings telling someone that he was gonna break their face and another debtor He was telling he was gonna put him under a bridge Carmine Polito is a serious individual he is a big-time earner and He's known as a big-time tough guy and as we know in this world that can be a Powerful combination and lead you up the ladder in any crime family Carmine He's a favorite of You know a lot of the leadership of the Genovese crime family and has been going back 30 or so years he beat a murder rap Back in the 2000s after being convicted of it. It got tossed on appeal beat it at trial. No seven This is a guy that Back in the day before he got his button Or right when he got his button It's interesting to note that he he had hundreds of thousands of dollars of gambling debt, but you had a number of Very influential figures in the Genovese crime family fighting over his services and there were a bunch of sit-downs multiple crews trying to claim him and For a guy that had a lot of debt it shows you how valuable he was and He's very well liked by barry Barney below mo the godfather of the Westside the boss of bosses. I always laugh when I say that I'm sorry boss of bosses I'm joking because those people give me grief for for referring to him as the boss boss We know he's not officially the boss of bosses, but most powerful Don in New York City He apparently has a soft spot in his heart for Polito. He's been a golden boy For a while, but it looks like he's gonna do go do some prison time But really good deal that he cut a shout out to Jerry Capacia gangland news who broke the story of the global plea Case came down in late summer early fall of 2022 took down I think six or seven Gambino or sorry six or seven Genovese Polito was at the top of the indictment as a number one defendant So a global plea means that everybody cops and you know the the prosecutors can clear the case and Everybody can just kind of do what they have to do for punishment and go on with their lives and not get this thing into trial or These huge back legal back and forth. So everybody copped the plea most of these Codependents are probably to do a year or less I'm guessing polito is gonna do a little bit over a year. You could do three But even if you do three you're only doing eight, you know, 18 months until you hit the halfway house, so Only other thing to point out and this was in Jerry's column on Thursday that I guess the hearing that Was held in a Brooklyn federal courthouse last week to come to these pleas got a little dramatic a little explosive one of Polito's Codependence friend of his Mark Fuhrer. I believe his name is a former car dealership owner He eventually copped the plea but he was like screaming at the court hearing then throwing around Accusations that he is that he was framed his attorney claims. He was just a gambler just a big gambler had nothing to do with booking bets or collecting bets and then it should be noted that a polito since his bus in 22 and getting bonded out has been according to federal prosecutors still You know working every day in the Genovese crime family handling business as usual conducting calls and meetings with Other members of organized crime within the Genovese crime family that he's not supposed to be specifically. There was a lot of communication with Anthony Rominello couple out of Queens who's now in prison on his own extortion case, so Just keep an eye out on Carmine pizza You know, he's acting capo for Johnny Hollywood handles everything day-to-day In Little Italy and parts of Queens other parts of Manhattan, but he'll be doing a little bit time in college probably about a year year and a half, but For what he was looking at this this turns out to be a great deal All breaking news out of all the five families in New York come to the og come to games to report I'm Scott Bernstein og pod out