My dad said to me the day in a visiting room, he said, listen, I have to ask you one question, son.

If you ever had to kill somebody, could you do it?

And I thought about it for a minute, and I said, under the right circumstances, yeah, I can do it.

You know, our family, to Colombo's, we happen to be one of the warring families.

We had three wars in my lifetime.

What's it like dealing with the Russian mafia?

Were you introduced by someone?

I knew how to use the life to benefit me in business.

You know, if you know how to do that, there's benefits to it.

But the biggest scheme that I got involved in was the wholesale gasoline business.

And I devised a scheme with the help of another guy to defraud the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.

Defraud the government on all the petrol in America?

Correct. We collected the tax we didn't pay.

And at the height of our operation, we were doing between $8 and $10 million a week.

How much do you reckon you've earned at your peak in total?

Like the whole petrol scam?

We're talking hundreds of millions.

There was guys to say to me, Michael, you got all this money.

Why don't you stop?

I said, why?

I said, you get as much time for a million dollars as you do for a billion.

So I may as well keep on.

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