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Michael Franzese

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“When he became a snitch, I got a hold of his son, Larry Jr. His name was Larry, and I said, Tell your father, I'll fight him in court. Don't give up the money. It's all money. It's for you, your mother, but don't give up the money. Whatever happens, we'll worry about the court situation. He testifies against me he becomes an informant, goes to Holby, never gives up the money, never gives up the account. He testifies against me in a Juliani case, I get acquitted. Jury didn't believe him, right? We destroyed him on the stand. So now the government in the eastern district, the other side in Brooklyn, said, you're worthless. You couldn't get a conviction on Francie, it's your worthless, we're throwing you out of the program. You're done. He gets scared. He says, wait a second. You know, there's more. He gives him the half of the number.”
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
“Yeah, yeah. And money that I had put in certain places I was taking it out and I was putting it so I said I never have to worry about anything again. I'm going to have to sit on this cash. Because another thing happened. My partner and I had a bank in Austria. And we were taking the federal tax money nine cents, and we were just putting in that banking. We opened up a bank account. He had half the number. It was a numbered account. He had half the number I had half the number. Neither one of us knew the other half, right? We just did it. I always came up with that. I said, let's make sure we have no temptation. It was more for him than for me, And we had about thirty three million dollars in that account.”
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
“I said, Great, I got married in July of'8y five, right? I said, great, I got time. I have my own plane. I was moving things around. But I was figuring I had seven, eight, nine months. Well, I got indicted in December of that year and no bail. So they kind of derailed a lot of my plan and strategy because I got locked up six months earlier than I thought. And so that was hurtful, I can tell you 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
“You know, I was resourceful in that regard, but, you know, your plans don't always work out the way you want them to, I'll tell you one thing that really hurt me bad. I hired a lawyer that had just come out of the government the prosecution's office. He was, as a matter of fact, he was almost on one of my cases, but he wasn't, so there was no conflict. But he just came out of the eastern district of New York, which was Brooklyn, where my cases were, most of them. And so I hired him. And I said, John, I need one thing from you. I want to know when I'm going to be arrested or locked up or indicted on this gasoline case because this was after my partner became a snitch. And he said I'll never forget. He said, don't worry about it. June of eighty six, that's when it's going to happen. You got time, right? And this was like the middle of'85.”
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
“And she didn't know I was doing anything wrong. I never discussed it with her and never told her anything. I said, hey, I'm in this business. I'm a wholesaler. We have a lot of cash. You know, you go to a guest and they pay with cash and have as many credit cards as I have now. So it came to a point I said, all right, I'll fix it. And I bought a refrigerator and I put baking soda in the refrigerator with the cash and that took the smell out. And she said, I never seen anything like that before. I said, well, you know, gas, nobody wants to smell gas. But I made everything legitimate out of it. I never told her a thing that was going on. Never.”
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
“I mean, listen, it got to a point with the cache where I used to come home and I used to get the fives and ones, and I used to give them to my wife. I said, give this to your brothers and sisters because I have no room for them. There's no place to put them. And I'd give her a couple of granding and say, yeah, just give it out. Keep the 20s and, you know, the 10s. It was, you know, washing the money was an issue. I mean, once my wife went to the bank and I gave her, I don't know, thousands of dollars to deposit. And the banker said, why does your money always smell like gas? So my wife said, I'm not going to the bank anymore for you.”
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
“A lot of cash, no question, but there was a lot of wire transfers and money sent in different places. We had a lot. Not everybody paid. And you were selling to legitimate gas station owners. You know, they didn't pay you in cash all the time. And especially when you're selling big volume, there was a lot of wire transfers, a lot of wire activity.”
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
“Well, yes, because in negotiating the plea I was able to keep certain things and not. I said, listen, if I'm going to take a plea, my wife's not going to go to work. I'm going to make sure my wife, my kid, they're all okay. So I'm going to keep some of the money. So when you're negotiating a plea, my lawyer, he was able to at least give me enough. My wife never had to go to work when I was in jail”
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
“I pled to, I was a racketeering case, the underlying act was tax fraud And two counts that I pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy something, and ten year prison sentence, fifteen million dollars, fourteen point seven million dollars arrestition, five million of forfeitures.”
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
“It could have been an aborted attempt, and if it was a legitimately aborted attempt of You're normally not going to be held responsible for that, but. If you're given a job, you better get it done. Let's put it that way.”
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
“The Bosch had total how hard was it for the boss to order a murder and then have it executed? Wasn't hard was not hard at all, especially as with somebody within our life. It wasn't hard. Unfortunately.”
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
“Oh absolutely. Yeah, I said, we'll handle it for you. You know, Turnus, you know, let us know. They wanted him out of the picture. So they didn't want this to end. Because they figured that if he's gone, I can still keep this 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
“But I'm not going to introduce him to people that he can put in trouble. No way. And they couldn't argue with that. It was part of my strategy.”
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
“I knew if he got in trouble, he wouldn't stand up, he would cooperate. He didn't want to go to prison. He wasn't a guy that was going to do jail time. I knew that. And my other guy, you know, one of the things is. My boss always wanted to meet him. And I said, I'm not going to make, now I know why they wanted to meet him, you know, in case of anything, they would take him away from me, right? I said, I'm not going to make you meet him because he's weak. If we ever get, he's going to give up everybody. So why would I make him meet you? And then you're going to blame me for introducing him to you. Strategy, right? They couldn't say no to that. They couldn't say no. And I said it in front of people. I said, I'm telling you, this guy is not going to stand up. When I have a problem, he's my problem. I'll take care of it my way.”
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
“Even if some guy does me wrong, why didn't I figure that out? Why didn't I know this? I always try to take responsibility so I don't make the same mistake again. It's worked for me my whole life. When you start playing a blame game and start, all it does, it's a sign of weakness in my view. And, you know, if you accept responsibility for everything, even when it really isn't your fault, can you say I should have known better? Come on. How did I do this? Why did I let this guy get take advantage of me like this? Until right now, I have a situation now. I'm saying the same thing. My fault, you know, what am I going to do? Get mad, you know? So, you know, it's just the way I operate. So was I really upset with him? Like, you know, no.”
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
“It's almost like I couldn't even be really upset with him because we got along so well. We made so much money. I just knew he was weak. So, you know, I learned one thing, Steve. I try not to put the blame on anybody else. Anything that goes wrong, I take responsibility for it personally. I should have owned”
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
“You know, I'm going to tell you God's honest truth. He was six foot four, almost six foot, four hundred fifty pounds. Big guy. He wasn't a sloppy fat. He was a big guy, right? We were together seven, eight years, never had an argument. His kids call me Uncle Michael. I was married before for a short time, and my young kids called him Uncle Larry. We made millions together. But I knew he was weak. I knew if he ever got in trouble. And look, when he got in trouble, they said to me, we'll take care of him for you. And I said, listen, I'm going to fight him. His wife, I know his family, I can't do it. I said, just fight him in court. They were upset with me for making that decision. And that was my decision. I said, I'll fight him in court.”
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
“taking a plea i'll give the government back some money i gave up my plane my helicopter the whole beer take it forfeitures i had five million in forfeitures and fifteen million in restitution that had a payment so um it was part of my strategy to take a plea do some time give them some money move out to the west coast marry this girl and then try to get out of her life as part of my Strategy”
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
“Well came crashing down really like I had went to trial five times and is either dismissed or acquitted in every case I beat him five times But it came crashing down in the gasoline tax case my partner, who he and I developed this scheme together. He was really the brains of it. I was the polish. I knew how to do certain things that he couldn't do, but he came up with a scheme. I brought the accountant in, I brought a certain strategy in, I brought people to the table, and I made sure nobody messed up and we got the right money. I was the expansion part of the business, you know. And he became an informant. He got in trouble on an unrelated case. And they told him, listen, you're going to jail forever unless you give us Michael. And that's when it started to come down on me. I took a plea to gasoline case. Even though he had testified against me in a prior case and I was acquitted, we destroyed him on the stand. He wasn't a good witness. But part of my strategy, I'll take a plea, I'll marry a new my wife at that point. I'm going to marry this girl. I'll get a lower sentence.”
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
“You know, I went to him, I knew he kind of was fascinated with the life, and I said to him, Look, I need a floor plan for my cars. I don't have any money. I said, I need a couple hundred thousand dollars. I got to be able to buy cars from Mazda. I said, I'll give you so much your car. I said, you floor planned me. I'll play it straight with you. Every car I sell, I'll give you a couple hundred bucks. He was in troll. He floor planned me. That's how I got the floor plan.”
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
“Didn't have to strong arm, you know. Listen, the Mazda agencies that I got, people knew who I was. I was going broke. I didn't have any money. I was on trial a couple. I was broke. But I told the guys, listen, I understand the business. I'm very aggressive. Give me the place. You know who my father is, you know. You got it. I'm going broke. So he gave me the dealership, basically. And then through a series of things, I was able to get floor planning. I mean, it was a whole stuff. I worked hard, Steve. I was seven day a week working guy. Worked hard. I kind of understood certain things. Like, you know, right away.”
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
“legal no, unless they contributed in some way, and they didn't. My dealerships were mine. I didn't know them anything. You know, my film company was mine. But anything I had on the street, yes, you have to pay up.”
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
“No, I had well, you know, I had legitimate business. I had two automobile agencies. I had a Mazda dealership, very successful. I had a Chevrolet dealership. Successful. I had a leasing company. I had a film production company at that time. I was making movies. I made about 30 films during that time. All horror exploitation films. They were big at that point. I had a number of restaurants that I was involved in. I had a video shop when video cassettes and everything were big. didn't compete with Blockbuster, but we had a good neighborhood spot. So I had a lot of things going on. I had a lot of money on the street. I was lending money out to a lot of my own guys. I'd lend it to them. They in turn would lend it to somebody else. You know, so I mean, I had a lot going on.”
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
“And I said it to myself. I didn't ask him. I couldn't even answer him. I got out of the car and was walking towards my car and I started to think. Knowing my father so well, I said, I know what he did. Hey, my son is stealing. He does everything I'm on parole. I don't know what he's doing. I have no idea. He just kind of took the high road and left me on my own. Instead of standing up for me, because we were both captains at that point, my dad could have forcefully said how dare you, my son would never rob me, and he could have really came out, but he didn't. I was really on my own. And I could have been dangerous. You know, again, the traps that they set up for you during that time, because believe me, they would have loved to take over my business and just, you know. And you got to watch for that. So the traps that were set up, you know, fortunately I was able to navigate him. But it really was devastating because I said, how could that happen?”
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
“He was a smart guy. And I said, no. said Michael, you know to life as well as anybody you grew up around the best. I go to get out of the car and he grabs my hand, my arm, and he says, I'm going to tell you something. You're not going to want to hear this, but it's the truth. I am your friend. He said, we live by a certain code, but I am your friend. I said, what? Your father was in there before you tonight. He didn't help you one bit he hurt you in there tonight And I was like devastated. I said, what do you mean?”
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
“And I said an amount being questioned? I said, They write an article about me all of a sudden it's true, they write about everybody else it's false So I started to get angry with the boss. You don't do that. You know, you know that you never outshine the master you know that principle and that life for sure so I calm myself down and I said okay I'm walking out of here everything's gonna be all right and then we finished up and you know we have a glass of wine everything's great you know the usual thing and then It wasn't until I got in the car with the guy that drove me there who I knew my whole life he was a captain along with me and I got in the car and I got very upset with him I said you knew you didn't tell me what was happening here tonight I walking into a trap and you don't prepare me you don't say anything to me you know he said Steve He looked at me and he said If it was the other way around would you have told 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
“Talk my sense into them and said basically I'm bringing you all this money and I'm being put on the spot for this I said I'm taking all the risk nobody else is in jeopardy here. These are my guys nobody knows who you are. I purposely kept my guys away from them so that if my thing ever blew up we wouldn't be hurting any of the guys in 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
“I have no idea because I had a lot of cash. was in a million for sure. It was a lot of money. And then it was saying that I had defrauded the government at two billion dollars. It wasn't two billion. It was a lot of money. But, you know, they always exaggerate. So now guys on the street are starting to get a little two billion dollars, his own family. I had the Russians I had organized the Russians with me. We had a very strong crew and a lot of guys around me. So I think they walked me into that room one night. and my father was in there before me, and I mean I could the story can take an hour so I don't want to hold you up with it, but the bottom line is I've”
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
“I was called into a room one night. It was over money and there was an article that came out in a Long Island newspaper. I think it was a Long Island press out of circulation now that said I was becoming powerful enough to take over to stop my own family, break away from the Columbo, stop my own family. No truth in it whatsoever. Some reporter just made it up because I was doing well. I had a jet plane, a helicopter, big crew, I was in the media.”
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
“If it was, you know. I really thought about this myself so often, you know, I had an incident where my dad actually betrayed me. and it was devastating to me. And it made me think, I said, If this life can separate father and son, what do I really have here? What do we really have? What are we doing here? And I didn't meet my wife until two years after that. But I don't if that act of betrayal didn't happen for my dad, I don't know if I would have ever left the life because the pulley he had on me was very strong. I don't know if I would have walked away. But I think that had to happen it kind of separate me from him and really make me understand that this life, if it could separate us, what is 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
“Um I said am I going to do this to this girl and marry her? I'm a major target I'm never gonna get away with this long term I had huge bullshire on my back I went to trial five times I had seven indictments arrested eighteen times they were never gonna let me go they had a fourteen agency task force that was assigned to put me in jail forever. It's all documented. So I said what am I doing? I'm going to marry this girl in two years I'll be in jail for the rest of my life So that's what started to give me I got to get away from this”
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
“And my father ended up doing forty years out of fifty in that prison. He was out a few times on parole, but forty years out of the fifty. His life destroyed, basically. So any lifestyle that does that to a family is a bad life. It's an evil life. And I don't know any family of any member that hasn't met a similar fate in some way, shape, or form, so you know, I came to that conclusion. I said, this is bad. And what got me out of it, you know, I met a young”
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
“because she blamed him for everything that went wrong, rightfully so. He was gone only forty years my dad did on that fifty. So what went wrong? My sister, twenty seven years old, dies of an overdose of drugs. My brother, twenty five years of drug addict, Steve. You don't know what I had to do to save his life so many times. Drug addict. If he wasn't my brother and my father's son, he wouldn't have made it. My younger sister, forty years old, she died young. She was never mentally stable. The whole family was devastated.”
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
“I want to, you know, I don't want to. How should I say this? I don't want to give the impression that that's what the life is all about every day and all the time. It's not. But there are extreme cases where these things happen, and that's what makes it a bad life. And I call it an evil life because families are destroyed as a result of this. I don't know any family of any made member of that life that hasn't been devastated, including my own. Now not my wife and kids. I've been able to spare them of that praise God, but my mother thirty three years without a husband. When she passed away in twenty twelve, her relationship with my dad ugly.”
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
“I can't go in my house. I said, What do you mean? Well, his father had been caught fooling around with somebody else's wife or daughter at the time, and him and his brother were given the contract, and he killed his father And he said anytime I walk in the house, if I'm alone, the ghost of my father is in there and haunts me. So he said, I haven't been in my house alone in twenty some odd years.”
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
“It's the most severe policy. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you how severe it is. There's another guy, you know, to mention his name. It was two brothers that were made guys in that life, and I was friendly with them both. One of them happened to be in our family. The other one was with another family. But I drove him home to Brooklyn one day. You got out of the car and I said, I'll see you. He said, No, wait, wait, don't leave yet. I said, okay, I waited. So if he opened the door of his house and he looked in and like he was looking at something, I wasn't really paying attention. But then I seen him close the door and come out. And he got in a car and I said, What happened? He said, well, nobody's home. I said, but that's your house. What do you mean nobody's home? Why doesn't somebody have to be home”
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
“I was in a number of sit-downs in my life. It was a tough one. You know, one of the horrors of that life is, you know, you make a mistake, your best friend walks you into that room, you don't walk out again. And throughout the course of my life, I've seen that, obviously. I've seen guys that here one day gone the next. And it's... It's one of the evil parts of that life. There's no question. And I saw guys that died for the wrong reasons. You know, it's like anything else. In a corporate world, you have greed and you have backstabbing and all of that, but you lose your job, you lose some money, you move on. And that life, the consequences are severe.”
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
“I agree with that. I think when something is so severe even at that moment, I think it could last and come out in different ways. You know, I mean another thing. I mean, there was a very dear friend of mine. It was like a brother to me and he ended up getting killed. And that had an impact on me because I honestly tried to save him and I couldn't. Because without getting into the details, he did something that was total violation of our life. And he lost his life as a result of it. And I couldn't save him. I tried, but I couldn't.”
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
“Yeah, I didn't need to see that. Didn't need to. She did it out of love. She didn't do it out of because she loved me and she was his sister, devastated. And I think she felt close enough to me because she knew how I cared about Arty and how he cared about me. So she just, it was grief, no other reason, you know, it was a sincere move that she did. But I didn't need to see that. And you know what? There's times when I have visions of that. My wife, you know, I have a tendency in my sleep. Things don't come out of me when I'm awake, but when I'm in my sleep, she says, you know, I had a fight last night. Who is it with? And it happens fairly often More than I think a normal person. But I don't remember. I wake up hey, I'm fine.”
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
“And I think that was a defining moment in my life to be able to move that and then continue to move into the life. Because I said, this is part of 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
“I walked into the funeral parlor, I'll never forget, and his sister came up to me and hugged me And she said You need to come with me, you need to look at what these animals did to my brother. I'll never forget the words. The coffin was closed. And she opened the coffin, and he was unrecognizable. There's a guy I loved. I didn't faint, but it got to me. It really got to me. I'd never seen anything like that before. In reality, especially somebody I really cared for, I really loved. And it did have an impact on me. There's no question. But somehow I was able to get beyond that. As a young person. Now, I don't know what that says about me in that regard And I'm able to do that about certain things. You know, even if it's wrong, this is wrong, but I can't sit on it. I can't let it get to me. I got to overcome 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
“I've been blessed in a way that sometimes my wife gets upset with me, that I can compartmentalize things pretty well. And I think it's the result of being in that life. And I think this is what triggered it for me, Steve. I had a fellow that when my dad went to prison, they called him Arty the Animal. He's a real tough guy, right? He was a Jewish guy. But I loved him. He was like a second dad for me. My father and him were very close. When my dad went away, he kind of, again, took not only me, but my whole family, very close with his family. He had younger kids. His wife was wonderful. He got murdered. I was young, was seventeen, eighteen years old, and he got murdered. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was one of my dad first went into prison. So I was 19 or 20.”
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
“Yes, absolutely. Do believe I mean, And I want to be clear on this, be careful on this. Murder is murder. Murder is murder. The reason you commit it is to is another thing. But listen, you go into the military, you're killing people on the other side. Why are you doing it? Well, I'm defending my country and I get it and I understand that. And that's a noble thing. Supposedly, right? But you're still committing murders. You still haven't in you. You could have been the nicest guy in the world. Okay, you could have been the most laid back, soft person in the world. You go into the military, they're going to teach you to be a killer, and you're going to do it. So you have it in you. It's a tough thing, but I think everybody has the capability of doing something, doing damage. Let me use that word.”
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
“Yeah, not true at all. I think just the opposite. I think we all have something in us that, you know, if we're triggered in the right way, we can do damage. Let's put it that way. I've seen that my whole life. Sometimes for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong reasons. Obviously if you're in defense of your family, of your friend, I mean, you might do some horrible things to somebody that's trying to victimize them. But there's others that just do it because they can do it. And I've seen that. I've seen both.”
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
“I think so had to because how could you do that? I mean, A couple hundred murders. And if you know he had a place called the Gemini Club. It was a club that he had. They described the way they would kill because some people became informants that were involved with him. And I mean killing people, chopping up bodies, I mean, it was gruesome, you know, I mean, you're a different kind of human being if you're doing stuff like that, you 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
“Oh, definitely following orders. I mean, I was, listen, there was some, you know, I can mention his name because everybody knows it's not. But there's a guy by name, Roy Demayo. I don't know if you ever heard that night. Roy was... He was a serial killer, no question. But what I say about Roy, and I knew him, Roy would have been a serial killer if he wasn't in a mafia. The mafia didn't make him a serial killer. That's just who he was. I mean, he enjoyed it. You know, and there were guys like 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
“Yeah, it really was. Then of course, as I get into the process, well now I want to complete it. I want to become that made guy I'm working for it. You know, it's like anything I do, you know, I want to complete it. I want to succeed. So that became part of it. And then, you know, because watching my dad is one thing, going through the process, understanding what the life is about, being around the other guys that were mentoring me, now I started to really get an understanding of the life.”
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
“I didn't have that feeling. Maybe because I grew up with it, maybe because that was my dad. You know, we didn't grow up poor, weren't wealthy, but we didn't really want for anything. We had a roof over our head. We went on a vacation every once in a while. So we didn't struggle financially in that regard. So, I mean, it's not something I aspired to be. It was strictly, strictly to help my dad, really.”
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
“You know, quite honestly, I didn't aspire to be a mob guy. I mean, even though I admired my dad, it's not the path that I wanted to take. Say, wow, I wish I could do that. You know, and it's kind of odd because a lot of the young people I speak to now, I use gangbangers that go into juvenile halls and prisons. And they say the same thing. Wow, you guys had all the money. You had all the power. You had the cars. You had the women. And it turned them on. And that's what they wanted to be that guy.”
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
“I was exhilarated that night. I was like wow, finally. You know, I'm going to have this even closer bond with my dad. I've worked for this now for two and a half years. I was exhilarated that night. I mean, on it, and so are the other five guys, everybody.”
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