 Welcome back into the original gangsters podcast another quick hitter episode. I'm your host Scott Bernstein Today we're going to talk about a recent mob Jewel heist crew bust In Manhattan multiple crime families were involved but the the main guy at the forefront of this thing is Frankie D. Pietro Frankie the fish aka skip or skippy and You know, we're gonna go over the You know the bullet points on what exactly happened in this bus last week I don't know York City, but I want to also give a quick deep dive and that might be a oxymoron a quick deep dive on on D. Pietro's Mob lineage and we've learned some of this from The reporting of sit-down news John Penice friend of the show who was able to shed some light on on D. Pietro's background. I put out something about a Murder that that Frankie D. Pietro was was convicted of About 20 years ago and came out of prison in the 2010s And he made the move from the Luccheses to the Genovese and that's where he is right now He's a made man in the Genovese crime family and this was reported by Jerry Capaci last week in gangland news and Based on what Penice saying it looks like Frankie D. D. Pietro was Um Proposed and sponsored by his brother Rocco D. Pietro Rocky D. Pietro who according to Penice is a couple regime in the Genovese right now and The D. Pietro brothers have a really interesting that story their their their father was Carlo D. Pietro who went by the nickname Kali and Charlie or Cosmo, but a lot of people called him Kali and he was a Crew boss. I'm not positive. He was a if a full-fledged skipper or just a high-ranking Soldier who had a crew underneath him, but a pretty major player in the in the Genovese back in in the 70s he was murdered back in 1981 disappeared after a a Seemingly a dispute with with a guy named Joe glitz Joe Galiza who according to Some informants was actually inducted into the Genovese by murdering Kali D. Pietro They were all partners in a in a flea market A group of flea markets along with John Gotti at that point the young couple regime in the Gambino crime family and The the elder D. Pietro was also According to some of these FBI informants the point man for the Genovese crime family in that What became a very infamous? bootleg gasoline scam a daisy chain scam that was pioneered by Russians and and the Columbus Mafia Prince Mike French Mike Francis another friend of the show and Kali D. Pietro disappeared in 1981 and it looks like Frank D. Pietro at least gravitated away from the Genovese and Linked up with a Lucchese crew out of Staten Island That was called the Port Richmond crew skippered by a guy named fat Nikki DeCastanzo and They perpetrated a murder Or I should say Frankie D. Pietro that point was known as skipper skippy Murdered a guy named booty van name George van named they called him booty who who had testified In front of I believe just grand juries at that point But was was working with the DEA to build the narcotics cases against the Lucchese crew that was operating on a Staten Island and D. Pietro was very close to a Staten Island Lucchese soldier named Rocco Papa Pietro who went by Rocky Papp's and That seemed to be the guy that Brought him into the Lucchese realm and Him and a guy named. I know there's a lot of nicknames. I apologize a lot of a lot of his names in general to consume here but When when the Lucchese crew discovered that booty was Cooperating a guy named Tony bones Anthony Alfredo Lord him to a wooded area in Staten Island where Frankie D. Pietro shot him down and He had to go to prison for about Eight somewhere between sixteen and eighteen years Frankie D. Pietro Came out of prison in around 2016 and has now Left the Lucchese got released from the Lucchese crime family and came underneath his brother Rocco Who's an alleged couple right now according to John Panese and sit down news and and got his button in a in a 2018 late 19 late 2017 early 2018 ceremony and now let's get I might have buried the lead But I think that all the stuff with the jewelry heist has been well chronicled. So I wanted to kind of lead with What maybe people didn't know about? Frankie D. Pietro Frankie the fish now. He was skipping now. He's Frankie the fish. So Frankie D. Pietro and four or five other guys were indicted last week for a pair of high-end jewelry robberies arm robberies in Manhattan that took place Earlier back in the winter January February ish and then back just last month in May and It looks like there, you know just based on the indictment looks like these guys are dead to rights there's there's a lot of evidence that the prosecutors have laid out for us already and You know, this is a serious guy His background his genealogy He's someone that might have not been on the radar before but you know now he's He's starring in his own You know Ridley Scott movie as as a as a daring jewel robber Guy 66 years old and he's he's pulling Stick-up jobs in Manhattan. So First one happened in Midtown at a pretty exclusively Jewelry store I that was in a building the crew that Frankie D. A. But Frankie D. Pietro was heading were all dressed as construction workers and They just kind of walked into this High-end jewelry store that you had to be buzzed in at buzzed in to get into but because they were dressed as Construction workers and there have been a construction crew that I'm from reading it looks like the construction crew went to do something else maybe take a break grab some lunch and Because of the casing they had done D. Pietro's crew knew to just kind of slide in And make the people at that at the jewelry Place think that they were the guys that had already been there. They got in there and they pulled weapons And between this and then another one last month that took that that went down in Chinatown Over two million dollars worth of jewelry diamonds have been stolen the Chinatown one is what really You know blew this thing wide wide open in terms of you know law enforcement being able to take these guys down was That the the getaway driver in the Chinatown heist Crash the getaway car had to go on foot ends up like you know With the police he's in custody they take pictures of them. They don't have enough evidence to arrest him for anything but through video surveillance tapes, you know security footage from the from the local businesses they were able to kind of tie the catheter what really happened and that was that was really the beginning of the end for this for this jewelry heist crew led by Frankie the fish D. Pietro, so It it's it's it's funny that it's not funny, but it's It's intriguing I guess from from a researchers perspective that a guy like Frank D. Pietro with that Pedigree and his dad I guess was not just tied into the Columbus and the the Daisy chain bootleg scam not just tied in to John Gotti and the Gambino's but also had some pretty serious connections family connections and again, this is another Feather and the cat for for Frankie D. Pietro in terms of his bloodline his dad was Locked up linked up with with that whole Carmine the cigar galantes banana crew moving a lot of age from Europe to the US and in the 60s and in early 70s and It appears that there was Either uncle or a cousin that they called uncle Kali D. Pietro was a was a banana guy named Frank Frankie Mari Went it up getting killed in the banana the Joe banana or the Joe banana banana war Back in the in the in the late 60s early 70s, but So, you know, Frank D. Pietro is a guy that probably should have been on the scene Before he was 66 That murder because he was wasn't really a Major player back when that murder was committed 30 some years ago It didn't make a ton of news and But now he's you know, he's coming into his own in terms of at least notoriety publicly from the masses and In regards to what a big tough Big bad mob got big bad mob guy this guy is because it's pretty obviously you got to have a lot of balls and be capable to pull the trigger but to just go in guns blazing into, you know broad daylight into jewelry stores in Manhattan You got a you got to tip your hat a little bit to this guy and we'll see where it where it Handsome he's most likely have to go to do could have to go do some more prison time But he's only 66 and when you're 66 and in the mob that's kind of Right there at the you know, in some cases it's the midpoint guys don't really reach their peak sometimes until their 70s Even early 80s. So we should see with with Frankie the fish Just wanted to give you guys an update But another quick hitter here Jimmy's gonna be back we're gonna have a full full length episode that we're gonna roll out this week that we did on Buffalo and what's going on with the Buffalo La Cosa Nostra family and The the reputed bosses nephew is about to go on trial for a big drug and prostitution case and it came out just just actually We broke it for you first both at the gangster report comm and og pod that a Supreme Court judge in New York was an unedited co-conspirator in the case John Koski who committed suicide last year just recently or should say just today on Sunday hit the front page of the Buffalo news so we dissect that and We're gonna have some Really exciting New England content that we're going to drop soon with top state police OC Guy in in Providence for for 30 years So we're gonna talk about what's going on right now in Providence big state and an FBI investigation into the metagooly a many crew so Keep it here on the og pod YouTube channel for Benny behind the glass and for Jimmy who will be back at the for the full length episode I'm Scott Bernstein og pod out