EX-MOB BOSS MICHAEL FRANZESE MADE $10,000,000 A WEEK WITH THE MAFIA! (Podcast)
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Michael Franzese, an ex mob boss who devised a scheme raking in $8-10,000,000 a week through the gas business. He was under the Columbro crime family, one of the 5 families of New York. He currently has an incredible channe discussing his former life, does public speaking, sit downs with the most insane guests, breaks down movies and shows about the life, and has some of the most insightful words. I highly recomend checking out his channel and let me know what you think of the sit down.
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| 0:00.0 | It was a lot of money. We bring it in seven eight million a week at time sometime ten million you know |
| 0:04.5 | My name's Joe host of the Lightwaits podcast today. We have a very special guest Michael Franzi's if you don't know Michael Franzi's is an American former mobster who is a caper regime of the |
| 0:13.5 | Colombo crime family. Michael helped implement a scheme to defraud the |
| 0:17.0 | federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 1980s. At one point in time I |
| 0:21.1 | had over 350 gas stations that I either owned, operated, or was delivering product to. |
| 0:27.0 | Authorities say the mafia first moved into the gasoline business in New York and is now active in at least 12 other states. |
| 0:33.0 | There was times we were pulling in $10 million a week. |
| 0:35.0 | Once I was into it and I knew the government knew we were doing something, they couldn't figure it out. |
| 0:39.0 | I said, you know what, you get as much time for a billion dollars as you do for a million so I may as well keep going. |
| 0:45.0 | That was my attitude. |
| 0:46.0 | In 1986, Fortune magazine wrote a huge article, 50 biggest and most powerful mob bosses in the country, |
| 0:52.1 | 49 of them a day. 49 and the day. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm the only one that survived. |
| 0:54.9 | Michael Franzizizi is now a high-ranking member |
| 0:57.8 | of an organized crime family, the Colombo mafia family. |
| 1:00.8 | In 1986, he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on conspiracy charges. |
| 1:05.0 | He was ultimately released in 1994. |
| 1:07.0 | Currently he's a motivational speaker, a storyteller. |
| 1:09.2 | He has an incredible YouTube channel and I highly recommend going to check it out. |
| 1:12.8 | I want to tell you this. Murder is ugly. |
| 1:15.4 | If they prove you put one dollar into buying your house, |
| 1:18.8 | one illegal dollar, they take your whole house. |
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