 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition we're going to be going back out to New York City the Big Apple Queens crew of the Bonanno crime family John Bazuragano is back in trouble with the feds after reporting to prison back in the summer to serve a five-year sentence based on a record labor racketeering conviction cop the plea back in November of 22 was sentenced in April of 23 reported to prison in July his case from this labor racketeering case was based in the 2021 indictment tied to racketeering in a Queens labor union most of the people he was indicted with or all the other people he was indicted with were Colombo mob members not related to the Bonanno crime family the city and administration of the Colombo mob went down in that case. Regano was working with a Colombo Capo's son Vinnie Union son Dominic was working on another side of this scam that they were running within the unions you had a kind of a Colombo side of the scam and you had a kind of a Bonanno side of the scam but Regano was using one of the Buffalo Capo's sons anyway cops the plea in November of 22 according to this indictment that dropped this week which is charging Regano with extortion and loan sharking it looks like in the time between when he copped his plea and when he reported to prison in the summer of 23 he was trying to collect an outstanding loan sharking debt and it appears again based on this timeline that within like days or hours of his plea being worked out in November of 22 he knew he's headed to prison in the near future and he starts leaning on a guy that owed him money to repay an extortionate loan and then the the racketeering conspiracy related to this extortion and loan sharking runs from November when he cops his plea to July when he reports to prison so through that entire I think it was seven months as Regano is out on bond waiting for his sentencing waiting for his time to report to prison to go serve five years he is getting another case by trying to collect a loan sharking debt I've heard that you know Regano is 62 he's tied into the Queens guys the oldest or not the old the Asaro crew we got indicted with Vinny Asaro about 10 years ago RIP Vinny I know that Ronnie G's guys have worked with him I've also heard that he's a polarizing figure and that there are a lot of guys that have him on their shit list for lack of a better term and that Bonanno higher ups have had to step in on his behalf to prevent beatings I don't want to go as far and say his potential hits or whatever but I've heard that there have been multiple crime families have been upset with Regano and Bonanno leaders have had to run interference for that either way he's getting jammed here he's doing five years this this loan sharking case could tack on another 10 he's only 60 he's only 62 so we'll see obviously the government is looking to jam him and try to find their way back to inditing the boss of the of the Bonanno's Mikey nose man clue so that remains to be seen but right now Bazoo Regano is on his way or I don't know if he's he's in Brooklyn yet but he was serving his time at a FCI Loretto in Pennsylvania and now either he's on his way back to New York to see the judge or he's already here and it's going to get hit with more charges and only time will tell what happens for OG pod Scott Bernstein out