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  1. “I appreciate that and I want to tell you I'm very inspired by you. Like I said, I'm very impressed when somebody at a young age has it together works hard and reaches the level that you've reached at a young age. I hope you continue to be an example of somebody that can just really put their head to the grind and make it. And I've read up on you, and I know that's what you've done. You've created a great, great business here, and just keep going.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “You know, it's a message hopefully of encouragement and hope to people that are struggling and facing challenges in their life. You know, you don't always be defeated by your past, and you're not always defined by your past. You can change that in many cases, not in every case, but in many cases. And I think I'm an example of that. And it's been inspiring to people, and it's extremely rewarding to me to know that I've been able to turn it around to a point where it's been a positive influence on people. So I like people to know that. That's what motivates me to continue to speaking. Not about, you know, it's about the way people react. And you see that this hope, it's the email, it's the text, the messages. Hey, you've inspired me. You know, you've given me hope.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “And then I had this conversation, and it planted the seeds to say, you know what, maybe there is something else. Maybe I can undo some of the things, not undo them, but change some of the things, change the path of my life. And it was a shortcome, maybe half hour the most, but meaningful.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Is it possible? And he really opened up to me, and it was a very inspiring conversation because I really, he's such a good man. I mean, I got to know and love this man. He's passed on now, but he married us. And he was the one that filled me with some hope that yeah, well maybe maybe I can't turn this around. It was up till then I didn't know. You know, my wife was a Christian and I was marrying her and I respected her for her faith, but I wasn't buying into it. Okay, you know. And my mother-in-law, strong woman of faith, but I wasn't buying into it myself. Because I said, they don't know who I am.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Look, I think the Unfortunately, these are defining moments. And in the course of my life, there's been more than one. But really, too, I'll boil it down to two. One was with my dad. and during that time when he proposed me into the life. and the second one was with the pastor of the church that married me that I hardly knew. And when we're going to get married in that church, I was with him and my wife, and for some reason, and I was still a mob guy at that point, I told my wife, I said, I want you to leave. I want to speak to doctor Taylor, doctor Myra Taylor was. And he was a pastor. And I sat down with him and I said, Doc, you don't know my background. I said, but I've done a lot of bad things in my life. I was part of a rough lifestyle. My wife is telling me, you know, I could be forgiven for these things.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And I always say this too. I tell people, get your personal life in order because normally your business is going to be a reflection of your personal life in some way, shape, or form. And you can't do both. You can't do one well and do the other not good because they're going to affect one another. So have your personal life in order, be a reflection, your business will be a reflection of your personal life. And if you can do that, Do what you do best, delegate the rest, give your personal life in order, your business will be a reflection of that, and you're going to do okay. I believe it.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “My motto, and it's worked for me most of the time when I'm really paying attention. I'm older now. I used to be a little bit different when I was younger. I was more hands on, but I came to a conclusion early on you can't micromanage because when you micromanage, you're taking yourself away from your best talent and the thing that you can contribute to the best in your business. And so I always said, do what I do best, delegate the rest, and then hopefully you have the talent to motivate the people and get the most out of them. So it's a double sword, double-edged sword. Do what you do best, delegate the rest, but motivate them to the point where you're getting the most out of them. That's critical. That's critical because you can't do everything well.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Absolutely. Well, I'll tell you this, and I'm sure this is a principle that you follow. You don't look like a micromanager to me”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “I would be overloaded. Just from social media and emails and text that I get, and it's a good feeling, don't get me wrong, that people see something in me that maybe can be helpful to them. And I pursue it as much as I can. As a matter of fact, I'm starting a platform now. I think it's come to that point, you know, God has put it on my heart that maybe it's time to, you know, offer these people something more than just a conversation. And so we are starting a platform where we can create this kind of family or community where not only I can be of assistance, but my team can. And people can start to, you know, help one another. I think we need that more than ever.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “You're lucky in that regard. So people want to hear that. But then they want to hear how that life has impacted me, how I've been able to get out of it and still, you know, succeed in a way in their perception I'm succeeding. But you'll be surprised with this, Steve. Whenever I open it up for Q&A, which is awful, you think you're going to hear all the mob questions. You don't. You know what it is? How did your wife react with you after being away so long? How did you patch that up? How did your kids react to you? How were you able to adjust? You know, did you feel you were doing the right thing? How is struggles? People, and I'm saying to myself, these people might be going through these same things in a different way, and wow, I came out of a tough situation. How did I make it? Can they apply it to their own lives? People are struggling, you know, and I see it more and more and more. If I wanted to spend my time mentoring to people all the time.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Well, it's a number. I mean, look, everybody wants to hear the mob story. He's intrigued with the mob story worldwide. And I never realized that when I was in the life until I became what I am now and all over the world. People are fascinated with more than any other criminal group, they're fascinated with the mafia. Media, why of course all the great movies, you know, Al Capone, John Gotti, bigger than life, all that stuff. So there's a fascination with this life. United Kingdom, you know, two tours there. Because you don't have a mafia there.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “You know What do I struggle with in the family? You know, it's funny. I'm on the street. I got all this stuff going for me. In my house, I'm just dad. You know, sometimes I get mad. My kids take advantage of me. I said, I go out of my way for all of you. You don't do anything in return. You know, you guys don't appreciate anything. I guess I still have that, you know. I'm a pretty giving guy, Steve. You know, I give you everything I can possibly give you. You don't have to give it back to me. Just treat me right. Respect is a lot. If I feel I'm being disrespect, I don't like it. Tell my wife sometimes. He struggles with, you know, the littlest thing. He thinks it's disrespect. Can't help it. That's my nature. You know, I don't like that. I have a guy now. You know, he's trying to call him up. He doesn't call you back for two, three days. That's disrespectful. You know, I don't like stuff like that. I struggle with it because I see a lot of it around. You know, I don't know what else.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “And we were at a funeral of a guy that got killed, and he said to me, You couldn't straight that one out, Michael. I said, don't compare the two situations. This was something else. I said, don't worry about it. I'm going to handle it. He said, Mike, they're not going to walk me into a room. I said, it's not going to happen. Relax. I promise you I'll do it. I get on my plane, I go to Florida. My movie was being made down here, and I go to Florida, I get off the plane. One of my guys calls me out, he says, Mike, and I'm not going to believe this or what? He said, Tony went into a phone booth and blew his brains out. He was an old time so afraid he said I'm not going out. Nobody's going to take me out walking me into a room. And he did it himself.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “You know, I mean, look, it's like I said, there was a lot of guys that I knew that were gone. You know, just not there. And, you know, I'll give you an example. There was a guy that was around my dad, then became around me. I was his captain. And he got involved in a drug deal With somebody that was higher up. She came to me, I was at a funeral, Paula, and he came to me and he told me what happened. And I got mad. I said Tony, what is the matter with you? You've been around all this. How the heck did you let this happen? I said, don't worry about it, I'm going to straighten it out.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “To visit him privately and I need to make a show or display out of it, and actually people says to me, Michael, you're better off not going. You know, you don't who knows if there's going to be a scene because I'd walked away from that life. Other guys might have been friends of my father might have showed up, and it could have been confrontational. I don't need to do that. I'm not looking to put on a show. You know, so, but guys make remarks, oh, you didn't care about your father. They don't know. They don't know what went on personally between us. None of their business. This is probably the most open conversation I've ever had about it publicly. Maybe at all. I don't talk about it.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “And I said to him, if I'm not going back in that life, I said, Dad, you see, I wasn't here to hurt anybody, but if there's things that you don't want to express, just don't tell me. I don't want to hear it. I mean, it was a very open, hard conversation that he and I had, but it was good because we came to an agreement in terms after that. You know, one of the things to bother you, you know, the mob genre on social media is like people talk and they say things, they don't know what really went on with me and my dad and our personal conversations and all of that. And, you know, well, you know, you never want to see your dad when your dad died. You didn't go to his funeral. And I didn't go. And I didn't go for a reason. Because number one, I knew who else was going to be there. I'm not going to go there and be the center of attention or maybe have something happen at my dad's funeral if somebody wants to make remarks for me and then we're going to it's going to be a bad time in there. I've respected my dad enough to do that.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “And he looked at me and he said, Do you mean his Bible stuff is for real with you? Because I had turned Christian at that point. I said, yes, for real. He said, okay, let's talk. And that's kind of how we broke the ice. And we spent three hours talking and going over a lot of the stuff that happened. And, you know, some of the anger I had in me I expressed to him. You know, and some of the things he said, you know, what he said to me?”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “I knew my mom was there and I'm in his house. I don't have to worry about it. I wasn't going to go anywhere where somebody else could have been there, you know, and I knew my dad wouldn't never do anything in his house. That's my feeling. So I seen him at five thirty in the morning open the door and he's standin' there arms fold and he looks at me and his first words to me He said If you would have listened to me you would have been the boss of the Columbo family I looked at him, I said, Daddy, you in the twilight zone or something? I said, I serve a different master right now.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely Listen, I got my relationship with my dad was never the same, especially after I walked away. You know, when we didn't speak for about 10 years. And then when I got out of prison and he was on parole and we realized he realized I wasn't hurting anybody. He said, I want to see you, called me. I said, okay. He said, I'm going to meet you in such and such a place. I said, nope, I'll meet you at the house, your house. Not going anywhere to meet you, Dad. Almost little mistrust there. I'm going to be honest. You know, and so I go to see him, I go to his house 5.30 in the morning because I was on parole, had a record at that time. I didn't know if I was allowed to see him, you know, other violation. He was on parole. I was on parole.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “I've never talked like this before and I don't like to do it because it puts my father in a very bad light, but sometimes you can play on somebody's mind so much, you know, especially a woman that he loved. And I know my mother loved me too. Figure this one out. There's no question my mother loved me, but I can't explain what dynamic they had going on within them. I don't know. But maybe there was some resentment there a little bit, even though face to face I never experienced that with him. But then this happens in that room. I don't know. I don't think if my dad thought I was going to get killed that night, I don't think he would have. Maybe he was in on it. I don't know. Maybe he said, hey, let's flush my son out. I don't know. I don't know. And Jimmy wouldn't have known that the guy that drove me. So I don't know.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “I like to think that maybe he didn't perceive it that way. There was some other things playing. You know, this is like, it was like it's Shakespearean in a way. My mother who I loved, very difficult woman, I can tell you this. She had her issues for whatever reason, but you know, I think my mother liked to be my father's wife for a time. I mean, she got a lot of attention, right? When I became prominent in that life, a lot of the tension was not on her, and I think she said some things to my dad, you know, that kind of maybe got in his head a little bit about me. Maybe I hate to say this. It doesn't sound right now. I don't want people to perceive it. Maybe there was a little jealousy or envy there. I don't know, Steve.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “I know he loved me, no question. I'll tell you what the problem with my dad was. His legend in that life meant everything to him.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  23. “Walk away. You don't walk away from this life. We're not allowed to do that. My dad disowned me for a number of years. till we patched it up. When they realized I wasn't going to be testifying against everybody because they thought I was, okay, this is what he's going to do. I wasn't interested in that. They thought I was going to go into the witness protection program and start hurting guys left and right. That's not what I was going to do. Never would have done that. Not in a chance. But they didn't know because when guys walk away, that's what they do.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “Okay, I was so consumed by the life, so this was me, okay, I'm going to die tonight. Scared, of course I was scared. I'm not ashamed of it. Not at all. I mean, I know that door opened, I almost fainted, probably. I don't know, because I know the setup, you know. I walk in, it would have been over quick. So when that door was going to open, I almost fainted. But I can tell you this, what I believe now as a person of faith, I strongly believe this that the way my life is turned out now, two things, that bond between my dad and me had to be broken. It had to be broken, and I had to realize in my life that I could face death if I had to because when I walked away from that life. Contract on my life, my boss was very upset with me. He took it very personal. He was a tough guy. He was an old time, real tough guy, and he took it very personal.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  25. “Absolutely forgave him. You know, something happens to you in that life, you know, it's It's like what's right is wrong, what's wrong is right, you justify certain things, but I understood, because that night. I mean, what kind of insanity to walk into a room when you think you're going to get killed or you think you might get? That's your perception, whether it's real or not, that's your perception. People say, why don't you cut and run?”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “Tell me your father three under the bush. He didn't help you one bit. It's exact words. He didn't help you one bit. He hurts you in there tonight. You know, I was devastating.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  27. “Jimmy told me and I approached my father two years later. He denied it, I said, Dad, I know you did it. It was confirmed. I know you did. I know what you did. But it's okay. I love you. It's all right. I get it. I understand the life. I get it.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  28. “Yes In a way, yes, because And again, I've struggled with this too. Okay, Dad, you betrayed me that night. You threw me under the bus. He didn't say, well, my son did this wrong. My son did that. He didn't do that. He just said, I don't know. I can't tell you I don't know, and that was damaging. He didn't stand up for me”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  29. “They really believed I was doing something wrong and they were going to try to take over the business. Now, again, remember, one of the safeguards, I never let him meet that guy, and I never let him my crew as my crew. I didn't bring them around. They were my guys. And when we fell, nobody, no made guy fell with us. It was only my crew. So I protected them in that way, but in another way I was safeguarding my business. So were they going to look for an excuse that night to take me out? Very possibly.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  30. “They didn't tell him that, but they were fishing to find out if there was a reason for it to happen. In other words, If I believe now this is my perception of that night, there was two reasons they walked me in, one of two. Number one, trying to scare me to let me know you may be making all this money, you may have this big crew. That article came out in a paper, but we're the boss. You try to make a move, you're going to die. That's what I think. It was either that or that.”

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  31. “Tonight they walked me. I told you they walked me into that room and I didn't know if I was going to, you know, that's one of the horrors of that life the night my dad betrayed me.”

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  32. “I would have been bitter and resentful. I don't think I would have come out of there the same. I really don't for she meant that much to me still does, but I did everything for her, basically, you know, I mean, she was the reason why I left that life. Even though I knew it was a bad life. I wouldn't have left. I was so indoctrinated. Steve, when I walked into that room that night, I thought I was going to die. And yet I walked into the room. Wow, what a hero. Wasn't heroic? It was robotic. So much a part of that life I had seen so much. I said, well, it's my turn, it's my turn. It wasn't heroic. I was scared out of my mind. My knees were weak, my heart was thumping out of my chest, you know, and I still didn't want them to realize that I was that scared, but I was really scared.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  33. “She did. She did. Eight years that I did she stuck by me, and she was young. She had a great mom, good Christian mom who held her up at church at that time Westwood Hill's Christian Church. They rallied around my wife and me and my kids were little babies back then and she stood up. When I went, I did five years, I was home for thirteen months. Very difficult thirteen months. It was a contract on my life. People wanted to kill me and government was all over me to become a witness and I had a very tough time. I violated my parole and when I went in the feds told her, you're never going to see your husband free again. We're indicting on another case, we violated his parole. He's done, you may as well pack it up. And she had a breakdown on me at that point. She probably couldn't see me for about six or seven weeks. She didn't come to visit”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  34. “and him and my mother drifted apart. My sister hardly knew him. You just can't if you're not in touch with people. It just naturally happens. So when I went away, my fear was that was going to happen to me and my wife. So I did all I wanted. I told the guy, you want to lock me up, lock me up? Just give me my phone calls and give me my visits. I don't care what you do. I'll take everything else. But don't take my phone call. Don't take my visit. I'm not going to do anything that will cause you to do that. So don't do it. That's all I cared about because I want you to maintain a relationship with my wife.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  35. “Getting to a phone. Everything is about the phone and having contact with your family. So the thing that worried me when my dad went away at that time, he got one three-minute phone call a month. and one visit a month, one eight hour visit. That was it. So he lost touch with the family.”

    2024-08-19 · The Diary of a CEO · Former Mafia Boss: "I Was Running The Biggest Scam In The World! $1.4 Million A Day!" - Michael Franzese · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  36. “I was able to deal with it. I mean, I had my bad nights in there, you know, and you just, fortunately, I had a Sony Walkman. Music was you have no idea. Music was soothing. I remember one Christmas Eve. I had just gotten off the phone with my wife and it was devastating the whole family was there and it was just, and I just put my walkman on and it just lifted me out of there for a minute, just the music, you forget stuff. You know, and I got into my Bible during that time and I was listening to a pastor that I had not known and ever met him. His name was Greg Lory. He's Harvest Crusade, huge pastor here now, very dear friend of mine now. But his words were so uplifting. I look forward to listening to him every morning. He had a morning radio shows. And so things like that meant a lot. And then”

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  37. “No. She'd honestly and I was pretty, I think I have a fairly strong constitution as something in me and that's God given. You know, I can't say I don't know how. Do you acquire something like that or it's just who you are? I don't know. But, um,”

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  38. “You don't have a toilet or anything else. I mean, I'm sure there's places around the world that are a lot worse, could be. But it's just the solitary. It wasn't so much the conditions. You know what I mean? We had a sink, we had a toilet, you had your bed with a little mattress. So that was, it was just being solitary. That's hard.”

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  39. “Yeah, because you know, it's kind of demeaning to, and I'm not trying to come off that way. I'm not saying, well, I was a tough guy. I was able to handle it. By the grace of God, I was able to handle it. I had my days and my nights where, you know, you say, God, it's one long day. It never ends, you know. And I mean, I lost a lot of weight there. I was down to, I'm like 190 something now. I was 180, 166 when I got out of there because I wouldn't eat. You know, the food that they gave us, I got, uh... Tomain poisoning a couple of times. I said, hey, give me cereal, give me bananas, and give me cup of soup. That's all I want to eat. I don't want to eat anything else. And so I lived on that for quite some time. And, you know, I don't want to make it sound that, I mean, it wasn't... Some of these places where”

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  40. “Banging heads against the bars and just some other disgusting things you don't want to hear. I mean, you know. damaging themselves, you know, hurting themselves just to get out of the hole. I'd see guys that did things to themselves to get out of the hole in jail and get sent to the prison so they didn't have to stay in that environment anymore. It was just bad. That's nightmare stuff. It really is.”

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  41. “Yes, it was I did eleven months in one place and then they moved me. That took about two days and then put me in another place and I finished it up.”

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  42. “They were upset with me. You know, when I wouldn't cooperate to the level that they wanted me to, especially in one big case that they tried to get me to take to stand against a friend of mine that I refused. And within a few days, I was back on a parole violation. They locked me up and sent me right to the hole. And I was in solitary the whole time getting made. I was just getting even with me”

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  43. “But I never had a problem. Never had a problem in prison. I treated people that way. And yeah, I did spend 29 months and seven days in solitary. And honestly, not easy. That was rough. I saw a lot of guys that not do well And I don't demean him for it. Lights went out sometimes. You heard a lot of things. I've seen a lot of things in there. The guys couldn't deal with it for extended times. It's rough. I'm dead set against it for young people. I think it's a form of torture. Really, really hurt them emotionally. And I'm against it unless somebody's such a danger to themselves or a danger to others. I'm dead set against it. But I got through it.”

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  44. “And he said, the reason for that, he said, all these guys in prison that never got respect on the street, they want it all in there. They want to show their people, you know, that they're tough guys or whatever. You bunk into somebody, excuse me. You want to cut somebody on the line, go to eat, whatever. I said, do you mind, excuse me if please, if I can come in front of you, don't ever just get in front of them. And somebody hands you, hey, thank you, thank you very much. Be cordial, you know. And it really helped because I saw guys try to throw their weight around. John Gotti tried to throw his weight around. Don't work in there. Guys are doing life in prison. They don't care who you are. What have they got to lose, you know?”

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  45. “That is a nightmare. I mean to go for something it didn't do for sure A prison is a, listen, it's like anything else. You got to know how to navigate the system as best you can. And, you know, my father taught me again. He said, am I going to tell you three things that are going to help you when you go to prison? Because you're going to go one day. He said, three words that are going to go a long way. Please, thank you, excuse me”

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  46. “Wherever the money's buried or wherever it is, when is it going to appear? I hear that. I've heard that consistently over the years.”

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  47. “I mean, I think. Let's put it this way. At any moment you can get in the crosshairs again, and who knows. But I don't think they're worried or concerned about me at this moment. It's not to say that that not be a concern of theirs again But I don't worry about that.”

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  48. “I will tell you this they believe that I have a lot of money stairs someplace to the point where they hired an investigator who wrote a book about it just to go and investigate and search and this guy went around the world to different accounts that he thought I might have had money in. He wrote a book about him. They couldn't identify they couldn't find it. But until today I get plagued with that. They should have. 100% we know you got it we're just wondering when you're going to go get it I sound respond to silly stuff like that, you know.”

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  49. “They negotiate the plea from twenty five years and one hundred million down to ten years and fifteen million with a five million forfeiture clause, right? So he did, it was very helpful in that regard, but we lost all that money. That was it, you know, it was meaningful. It wasn't everything, but it was meaningful. And when he cooperated, they gave him back two and a half million dollars out of that. thirty three million so he profited a little bit out of it at least.”

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  50. “The FBI goes to Austria, true story, goes to Austria and says It's mafia money we have half the account number. We want it. Austria says I don't care what money it is. You come with the full account number or you're not getting anything. Tells the FBI, they didn't care. They wouldn't give it up. Austria, not Switzerland, Austria, right? So now when I'm get indicted and then negotiating a plea. Originally, they want to give me a hundred million dollar fine and twenty-five years in prison. That was where we were negotiating. So my lawyer comes to me and says, you're never going to get the money. He's got the, it's done. It's over. It's finished. He says, give me the account number. It'll help me negotiate the plea down. I give it to him”

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