 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast quick hitter edition. We're gonna take a trip up to Providence and Federal Hill gonna give a little update on some sightings the Don Luigi baby Shax Manokio 96 year old godfather. He's a legend in New England in gangland circles. He's a lightning rod as well. Some people love him. Some people hate him, but he's definitely a survivor. Anyway, he'd been kind of off the mat for a while. He stepped down back in 2009, went to prison for three or four years, 2011 to about 15, I think, and went to Florida. But with COVID, because he's so old and insusceptible to infection or compromising his immune system or whatnot, for someone that's that elderly, had really kind of been a recluse the last three years. Word has been spreading that that he's been seen out and about in Federal Hill in the last six or six to eight months since maybe the spring. Multiple sightings of him, some social media pictures have circulated. And he looks like he's in pretty good health. Walking, driving, you know, not doing what most 96 year olds don't do. So, you know, he's been seen around town. And it's just kind of interesting to note 2023 and baby shacks 96 years old still alive and kicking. And then another sighting, Bobby DeLuca, Bobby DeSugar, from what I've heard, had, you know, returned back in the summer, attended his brother's funeral. The DeLuca brothers had both cut cooperation deals with the FBI. They testified at the 2018 trial of former New England godfather, Cadillac Frank Salemi. And he was on trial for the 1993 gang landslaying of Boston nightclub owner, Stevie DeSara, would been Salemi's partner, the DeLuca brothers partner in a nightclub. They've the Salemi faction of the of the patriarchal crime family suspected DeSara was cooperating and they killed him at at Salemi's house in Sharon, Massachusetts. The DeLuca brothers were in charge of burying the body once it got delivered to them in Providence. Bobby DeLuca was a coppo, had his eyes on on dethroning baby shacks. It never happened. Went into witness protection. And then word is that he's been back around town a little bit. It's been seen in North Providence. His son lives out there. His family word is that he came in and said goodbye to his brother Joe. But before he died, Joe came back. They both had been in witness protection. Joe came back to die in his hometown and that Bobby came in to pay his last respects and that he's been seen. Since then, Joe died back in the summer. So two old faces, two OGs, one and a little better standing than the other. Bobby the cigar has been seen out and about as well, keeping more of a low profile and sticking to to the North Providence in certain areas that he feels comfortable with. And but baby shacks back on the hill where he where he reigned from the late the mid to late 90s all the way to 2009 where he stepped aside and went into retirement. But it was a guy that traces his roots back to old man patriarca back to the to the fifties and sixties was was the definition of a suave smooth operating gangster kind of like a James Bond 007 very very distinguished, very sophisticated, very intelligent was the underboss of the New England Mafia under Cadillac Frank. And then when Cadillac Frank went to prison, baby shacks came into power and really stabilized the craziness that had been going on in that family for about a decade. So just wanted to report that some old faces have been seen in in their old stomping grounds of Federal Hill Providence, the ground zero for the Mafia in Providence, Rhode Island for 100 years. Scott Bernstein, OG pod out.