Today it’s La Dope-a Nostra!

The New York City mob is a pathetic shell of what it once was — full of small-time crooks, rats and dimwits, law enforcement sources and experts said Friday.

John Gotti would roll in his grave over how weak and brainless the Big Apple’s five families have become— with a no-killing approach that keeps them under the radar and only about 100 to 250 members each, the sources and experts said.

“The mob is so watered down now,” a law enforcement source said, after mafia-linked NBA gambling bust and a garbage scheme plea deal put La Cosa Nostra back into the limelight over the past week.

“Today they are letting car thieves in. In the old days, most made men had to do a [murder] hit. And if not, they had to be big earners,” said the source, who has been investigating the mafia for decades. “Today it is slim pickings.”

The Big Apple’s “five families” — Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese — still largely cash in on gambling, loan sharking, and extortion schemes but their wise guys are “nowhere near as rich as their predecessors,” the source said.

Teddy Persico is the reputed head of the Colombo crime family.

“You still have some guys who don’t want to get up and go to work in the morning [who are] looking for get-rich-quick schemes. Problem is, they’re not as smart or as tough as their predecessors,” the source said, adding they’re more likely to flip on accomplices.

“They are a shell of themselves, but they still exist,” he said of the crime families.

“You still have to be Italian, that is about the only thing that hasn’t changed in 100 years, except if you’re a son of John Gotti.”

Asked about the mob, another law enforcement source said, “Don’t make me laugh.”

“If these guys were around in the old days, I wouldn’t even ask them to get me a cup of coffee because they would f–k up the order,” he said. “If you did a job with them, if they didn’t screw it up, they would rat you out if they got caught.”

The mob’s new culture also leads to more rats and plea deals, experts said.

“For the old-time guys, mafia was a way of life, it was family. For guys today, it’s just a way to make money,” said mafia expert George Anastasia, author of “The Goodfellas Tapes,” and “Mobfather.”

“It has an impact when you’ve got an investigation and someone gets jammed up. It becomes, ‘Am I gonna be a stand up guy and go to jail — or am I going to  cooperate [with feds]?” said Anastasia, who covered organized crime at the Philadelphia Inquirer for nearly four decades  — and was once placed on a hit list by Philly mobster John Stanfa.

Today the mob is “scraping the bottom of the gene pool” for made men because second and third Italian Americans now have more opportunities, and anybody with a brain can make money legally, Anastasia said.

Michael “Big Mike” DeSantis, reputed head of the Luchese family.

Alleged New York City mob leaders now include Theodore “Teddy Boy” Persico, reputed head the Colombo family; Michael “Big Mike” DeSantis, reputed head of the Luchese family; Barney Bellomo, reputed head of the Genovese family; Mike “The Nose’’ Mancuso, reputed head of the Bonanno family and Lorenzo Mannino, reputed head of the Gambino family, law enforcement sources said.

All five reputed mob bosses are currently out of prison.

Persico — a nephew of  former mob boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico — pleaded guilty to a labor union extortion plot in July 2023.

DeSantis, of Brooklyn,  became the  new acting boss of the Luchese family after taking the reins from Bronx-based Matthew “Matty” Madonna in 2019.

Barney Bellomo is the reputed head of the Genovese family. AP

Mancuso, meanwhile, was sent to prison for 11 months in July 2023 thanks partly to a phone chat with an alleged fellow wiseguy about making pasta “gravy” after after serving a decade in prison for signing off on a murderous hit. 

Mannino is a former capo about which little is known.

Gambino and Genovese families have  roughly 200 to 250 members while the other three families have roughly 100 to 150 members, who rake in dough with the same crime schemes they’ve had for decades, Anastasia said.

The New York City mob has been known to very rarely “bend the rules” to let in non-Italians because, “More important than being Italian, is are you an earner.”

Meanwhile, Mafia expert Jerry Capeci said the New York City mafia has become less murderous in the past two decades.

“The big difference between the mob today and 20 years ago is they have stopped killing people — that’s a big deal,” said Capeci, who runs the website Gang Land News.

Putting the kibosh on murder makes the feds less likely to focus on them, he said.

 “[But] there’s still almost nothing they can’t do to make a buck.”