 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter We're gonna talk about the banano crime family for a second Joe valet Joe Cibela aka Joe valet capo from from Staten Island Is in a halfway house did about five years in prison Went down with Joe C. Joe Camerano who was the acting boss of that family in the 2010s Joe valet was a very close lieutenant of Joe C. Joe Camerano when he was running the family on an acting basis from about 2014 to around 2018-19 We all know if you've been following gangster report or original gangsters podcast or just you know but the daily soap opera of the American Mafia today that There was a pretty big break in the banano crime family back then Joe C. tried to Corral the regime away from Mikey Mancuso who's the longtime godfather was in prison and named Josie is acting boss and Josie tried to vote Mancuso out before he got Released was unsuccessful. Josie got shelved now. Joe Cibela is coming back into the fray. I did about five years in prison And Is now in a North Carolina Halfway house did his time down in the Carolinas Not sure when he's going to reach New York City. It might be they just don't have space for him in a halfway house In New York, but he's been released. He was released last week into a halfway house in Raleigh You know, this is a guy that Copped to racketeering an extortion based on that big case that took down Josie Josie beat that case him and porky Zoom coach the owns consulieri beat the case at trial in 19 Joe valet pled out pled to again extortion They call him Joe valet because he owns a valet car company. I guess he got into a dispute with his co-owner and Chased his co-owner to a restaurant parking lot in Staten Island and assaulted him over at that also took control of a Of a legal dump site like where they were Dumping hatched his waist and it was using that as kind of a black market dump site for Mob construction companies looking to you know, cut rate. They're getting rid of their hazardous materials Yeah, Joe valet came up under Tony black for Reno Went down with Tony black who was the Staten Island couple of the Bananos back in I think 2004 But you know the question I think everybody will be asking is where does Joseph Ella fit in you know the modern day? 2023-2024 Banano family with Mancuso on top and all those Josie guys have had I shouldn't say all them a lot of the Josie guys Have either been marginalized Or put on the shelf like like Josie I'm being told that There is no future shelving for Joe valet he's gonna come back and retain his spot That he's not gonna be held responsible for the sins of Joe's of Josie that Mancuso is cool With Cibella coming back. That's what I got right now. You know could change it's all fluid But Joe valet Josie Bella is out of prison after doing about five years and It's 58 years old not that old in the world of the mafia and Should be returning to New York at some point in the next year into a halfway house, and they'll be released and be Totally free as of next fall Looks like he had a halfway house a little early But I'm just here to report it. Joe valet is now out of prison For og pod out Scott Bernstein