Michael Franzese on Gregory Scarpa aka "The Grim Reaper" Allegedly Killing 120 People (Part 7)
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In this clip, Michael Franzese spoke about being around Colombo family hitman Gregory Scarpa, who was known as "The Grim Reaper" due to his fondness for carrying out hits. Michael then added that the FBI definitely exaggerated that Scarpa killed 120 people, as he pointed out that the Colombo crime family only consisted of 115 people total. He went on to speak about Scarpa becoming an informant and being hired by the FBI to hunt down KKK members in the "Mississippi Burning case."
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His answer to the 120 kills question was the realest shit
Yup
Facts
Look up Simo Häyhä i wonder how he felt after the war was over
Death Itself world war 2 ended when the white death woke from his coma
It's common sense, people forget that hits doesn't just happen like in the movies, it has to be approved 120 guys is a crazy unrealistic number
Michael trying to contain his laughter when he is asking him if a Captain is below a Capo, probably thinking why the hell i am even talking to this guy.
😂😂
I’m sure he was thinking “ man this guy is a dumbass”
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣💀 vlad is a dumb ass
Vlad is a gump
“But why was he called the Grim Reaper?”
Because he was always frowning while he was farming, why else Glad?
Hahaha yell
Michael : "do me a favor, look up the definition of 'grim reaper...."
What a moronic question vladimir
Haha
Exactly I said the same thing
"He was a Capo and you were a Captain. Is that below a Captain?"
Seriously Vlad???
fredo310 that was cringe worthy. Michael was trying not to laugh after vlad asked that, probably thinking “ man this Guys a dumbass”
@@1162hunter 😂😂😂
Nonato Macias who thinks they are experts? Vlad is the one who asked the dumb question and You can tell by Michaels reaction that he was probably thinking something along the lines of what I stated before , especially since he had already broken down the entire mafia structure to vlad in a previous interview
Nonato Macias and you don’t have to be an expert to know capo and captain are the same thing, you just have to not be a dumbass...
That’s Vlad being Glad
So Michael basically confirmed that Gregory Scarpa never had a makings of a varsity athlete
Hahaha Uncle Jr sure hurt Tony feelings
A varsity athlete or whateva happened there.
If that’s what you think, you haven’t been listening. He was the varsity team.
I see what you did there, Nice!
Small hands
Vlad “so captain, what’s that mean, like you own a boat or something?”
🤣🤣🤣
"And is a capo that thing you put on a guitar to transpose the strings?"
😂
@@tintomara6209 no it's a capo you put on tooth paste
Guy is a moron. Only reason he has this many subscribers is because of the high profile individuals he interviews.
I love that New York talk. "Where do you find 120 guys to kill"🤣🤣🤣🤣. I have to agree with Michael on this one.
Hell, in congress there’s at least 635 bums.
@@666BIGBLOCK true!..If you can kill 120 of them and not get caught. I'll disagree with what he said🤣
Yea. It is certainly a very questionable number. But the thing is you have to account for the fact that scarpa was in the game for 50 years. A half a century can give a psychopath alot of bodies.
@@stevenrivers8386 I agree Greg has bodies, I can't see it going past 15. Once you rack up that much bodies your bound to get sloppy. When they kill it's business, I can see a boss ordering over 100 murders. But I can't see the boss giving it to one guy tho.🤷🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
GoodVybz Very true. The only other thing. Is that scarpa and his crew were heavily involved and by some accounts responsible for the second colombo war (the biggest carmine persico loyalists). Lin Del Vecchio. The fed that would pay scarpa for info (he got real close with scarpa and was actually arrested over possible involvement but acquitted) and apparently was believed to have used his intelligence and gave it to scarpa which revealed where enemies were. Such as the guy scarpa shot down while he was hanging christmas lights. I agree it aint near the number they say, but might be higher than 15 with all things considered. I would say it is likely about 25. He put in some serious work for persico during the war. At least he did do one good thing and help play a crucial role in the mississippi burning situation with the kkk and the civil rights workers. He put the fear of god in that kkk scumbag. lol.
Glad: “why is the guy that picks up the garbage called a ‘garbage man’?”
He’s in mafia n kills people
Smitty Clutch it’s a rhetorical question
Vlad?
@@imtrippin6575 nah its glad
😂
120, that just proves FBI be making up numbers to get longer sentences
I believe them the lord high executioner murder inc admitted they killed over 500 people and he said 1 of them just wanted to kill everybody who looked at him .... ..this guy couldnt even hold murders incs cell phone now a days
@@GEVINCHYGAMEZ thats "Murder Inc", hence the name says it all. Hes saying that number is made up for 1 guy who he was around for 25 years. Feds don't know anything until they are told it by someone and even then it can be a lie
They try to influence potential jurors . That’s there Schtick. They go to there people in the media to release exaggerated details.
@@izzem yeah but there saying I dont believe it...... ..........thise guys alone had separate killing contracts!!!! Imagine if the wifey wanted new shoes every week .....lol
Mob guys don't consider the unfortunate saps who happened to be in a sociopath's way as legitimate kills.
So happy to see Franzese back in a new interview....watching his various videos got me through the friggin' quarantine.
Michael your an amazing narrator with great life lessons truly enjoy your time you spend narrating your experiences
when you know he was covered by the FBI for 30+ years, you can understand how he was so confident in doing all his crimes
Exactly. That's the main point being missed here. Even when Scarpa was withering away from AIDS, after getting bail, he was jumping in a car looking for other Colombo guys on the Orena side against Percisco to murder and he did it. He even took a bullet graze to the eye doing it. Even the FBI was like, "Nah, that's it for him" after abusing their system and wantonly running rackets and killing folks since forever.
I love this guy’s interviews, he keeps it all the way real
🗣💯💯
I completely agree.
Entertaining but not all the way real
El Chivato for one he was an informant and never admits it.
straight up, I wish our president would give him a job
Thank you for your response because ppl get to out of hand with these stories
All this time and Vlad didn’t even know Michael was a Capo
He does his research on Wikipedia
Do you honestly think he didn't know?
Vlad reminds of a wannabe 6th grader. He makes me laugh. He aint even prepared. Bro this dude is not a little street gang member. Wake up stupid
One of his mob homies forgot to tell him
Vlad - "I'm going through the story" = I'm reading Wiki.
Lmao deadass that what he was doing
Vlad asking if captain is below a capo .lol. Jesus Vlad get it together . You’ve done enough mob interviews to know they are the same. One in English the other in Italian .
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Exactly vlad says cringe shit all the time
Glad is so simple.
He asks questions he knows the answer too to inform the viewers who don't
@@franksly3547 Nah buddy.. most informed people who watch these videos know that already 😂
Michael is by far my favorite mob guy out of all the interviews I've watched .
Gotti is my favorite but Mike is the best on UA-cam
Michael Franzese you’re the best I love this guy with his honesty and all his stories love watching all his UA-cam videos.
Michael always makes perfect sense and answers are excellent.
in that life, all your answers better make perfect sense; capisce?
I couldn't stop laughing. "Is a captain below a capo?" How does he even get these interviews, omfg.
Massive sub count is free advertising for the guys he interviews, that's the only reason they tolerate the idiot.
The way Mike spoke about 120 kills is why i completely trust everything he says. He's not doing Kuklinsky and bigging everything up. He's trying to tone everything down. Respect.
Glad has asked a lot of dumb questions before but asking why a hitman is called the grim reaper has to be up there.
Well, if you watched this interview, or any interview of Franzese, he is constantly making the point that the concept of a "mob hitman" is a myth. Some guys kill people because they cant earn, but Scarpa was an earner but did "work" because he enjoyed it. He could have avoided it, for the most part, if he had wanted to but he enjoyed killing people, hence the nickname Grim Reaper.
He knew already, he just wants Michael to say it, he wants soundbites as much as any other interviewer
Great one interview
keep these coming these are dope with michael
I like theses Mike interviews nice job
vlad be asking dumb question, shout out to michael for keeping it professional
He smart and knows how to talk what to say what not to say
@@floggyWM1 the man talks to Vlad like vlads a cop sometimes lol makes for good answers tho sometimes because ya get to really see a glimpse that there's something else other than the earner aspect in him. Who knows maybe a decade or two from now he'll just let it all out but for now he still has to keep his mouth shut because some of the stuff he was involved in could still land him in prison for life. One wrong interview could reopen the wrong case.
The way he talks... every single time I've seen an interview or video of Michael Franzese speaking, he is always giving you the feeling that he is aware of every single word that comes out of his mouth. The way he said " I can count the guys that I know of that got murdered on the fingers of both hand"- instead of saying he is aware of up to 10 murders and lead the law enforcers to believe that he was a witness to that. His logic and clear mind show why he was such a big earner.
Do you let things fly out of the mouth NOT aware of every single thing you say? LOL
That would be troublesome.
@@rogerjrusa it is coz my big mouth got me in trouble more than once. What I meant is that Michael Franzese is a calculated old school bastard. I wished I had the same mouth control :)
“You don’t kill 100 guys in war” FACTS!!!!!!
Wrong. Chris Kyle has 160 confirmed kills. And as far as Vietnam? Chuck Mawhinney had a little over 100 confirmed kills. Both were snipers.
Tyson Rios well Chris Kyle was the deadliest sniper in American history, he’s talking about an average “foot soldier” in the mob.... compare that to the average foot soldier in the Army..... no where near 100 kills.....
@@bufferover_flo4727 At 3:11 "In Vietnam I don't know a soldier who could claim to kill a hundred guys." It's been done already. Yes I get your point while logically speaking nobody in organized crime has really claimed over a hundred murders that you know of. But you're absolutely correct as far as generally speaking for the average individual member of a crime family.
So tossing a grenade and killing a bunch of soldiers at one time only counts as 1 kill... How do you figure?
Perhaps Greg Scarpa didn't personally kill that money people, but he could have ordered others to do it.
out of all the mafia guys i feel hes the most honest and realistic lmaooo
He also dry snitches on a lot of people
@@jakeanderson545 ikr!...just not to the police.
Jake Anderson only dry snitches on people that are dead or already doing life in prison though
@@jakeanderson545 kinda hard to snitch on dead people
@Rollo Tomasi Franzese was capo, not underboss.
Love Franzese interviews!!! He's definitely a Realist!!💪🏽
i dont need cable tv lol mr franzese keep these informative, interesting stories coming, absolute pleasure watching them
The look on his face after being asked the difference between a captain and a capo is priceless. He looks so done.
Lol come on vlad. All these mob guys you interview and research and you dont know a captain and Capo are the same thing.
Exactly
(Vald) Swimming 🐟.....😒
Glad
Glad doesnt do research. reads the wikipedia page while doing the interview at the same time
Casual listeners may not know the difference. I didn't know the difference.
LOFL! CRUNCHY changed The man's name for life, even got franzese callin him Glad
💀
Crunchy is that nigga. C-Black for president 2024.
I thought I heard him say Glad!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Tom Stanton dumbass 🤦🏿♂️
@Tom Stanton 330
Yo I love how honest he is.
Great channel. Excellent stories. Mike just finished reading The Butcher. Bio of Tommy Pitera. Did you ever have any dealing with him?
Mass murderers aren’t the most affable guys.
You'd be surprised..
Wrong most street guys are very personable and intelligent and you wouldn't think they could cut u you up in a shower and bury u. So that's not a true statement.
Naw. I've seen interviews with shooters and they are not the talkative type. They aren't the guy getting a lot of laughs at least not in a gleeful way.
@@raynarounds8957 "My shooter don't speak but you can tell that he dangerous." - Conway The Machine
@@raynarounds8957 exactly my point u seen interviews you don't know real Italian street guy. Because some of them are hysterical guys u be surprised who most dangerous shooters are would think there some vagabond you watch too many movies and interviews.
“He eventually contracted HIV...I believe he died of AIDS, right?”
“Not true. He died of a broken heart, Vlad.”
Michael never said that
@@mm.7053 I know
@@mm.7053 yes he did. Listen carefully
@@mm.7053 he did say it watch it carefully. Everybody knows greg died of a broken heart
@@AY-qy4jn broken heart? Is that suicide?
Very interesting. Thanks ❤️
I swear, this man is a lesson in careful question answering.
Salud.🥃
And the interviewer is a lesson in thoughtless question selection.
3:52 Legendary 😭
you could tell Michael truly is a real gangster. super humble, super intelligent, doesnt brag...The more I listen to him and the more I listen to those other guys. I now know who to believe. I'm on Michael side all the way..
I could listen to Michael all day!
"I told 2pac to keep his head up" - T.K Kirkland
😂😂😂😂😂
Actually I told him to keep his head down if he would have that bullet would have missed him he'd still be alive TK Kirkland
That's the funniest one I've read yooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
Bro im from germany can someone pls explain these comments 😂😂 i mean who tf is kirk
Bendo437 if you look at all these Franzese interviews. The TK man is there saying shit like “I warned the mob about so and so! They wouldnt listen!”
He “personally has knowledge of 10 people that were killed”. Aka Mike bodied 10 people during his 25 years
"My father allegedly they only had him at 30 or 40[guys killed], I guess he wasn't that capable..." 😆
Michael gives the best analysis of that life, concise and simple without cussing, one hundred guys.
I'm from Howard Beach Queens NYC the Mecca of Cosa Nostra for the past 50 year's. It cracks me up when these dudes interview these guy's and always say how did you get involved like it's so hard, we were born that'd how we became connected. If you grow up in a neighborhood like this it's impossible not to know everyone. when people use to ask me how I met certain people I said I was born, went to school, had a father, an uncle etc lol. I was smart enough to walk away from the street life at 27 freely before the button conversation came up. I'm 46 now and broke and miserable as Hell but free and my life is my own to control. That fast money and life style stays in your blood though it's always missed to a degree.
When you’re so early you cant read comments so you have to watch the video😩😩
EARLY! (Freeway Voice)
Turrible
Michael FRANZESE: He enjoyed doing the work.
Me: What work? U mean "PAINTING HOUSES"?
And carpentry
I like mike, he seems pretty honest when he yells his stories
"so scarpa was known as the grim reaper"
michael goes on a heated rant about how he couldnt have killed 100 guys
"so he was called the mad hatter as well"
He says it like “the grim reaper” means you killed 100 plus
And the “Mad Hatter” is 40 plus or something 😂
Yes he was known as the grim reaper and its possible he killed that many when vlad interviewed Larry mazza and Larry said he was involved in 20 murders which he was involved with invertly or uninvertly and when Larry ask him how many Greg told him that he stop counting at 50 and Larry was his rite hand man mike dnt know shit Larry was soo close with Greg that Greg let Larry have a relationship with his second wife who you believe more?? I’ll take Larry over mike
After all these interviews Vlad still doesn't know a captain and capo are the same thing.
When your so early your wondering if UA-cam got the time mixed up!
Hey bro its me from the future...you made it through covid!!
I love Mike's interviews always very informative on how life in the organize crme works
doing the work
I like how Michael describes a killer as "doing the work".
Michael is the most likable mobster I’ve ever seen. I love listening to his stories
"He wasn't a real pleasant guy to be around."
Definitely not the most convivial serial killer I've ever met.
Michael is a class act in every way. Saved by Jesus ❤
It is wonderful ,,, no one is out of the reach of our Lord .. Have a great night B. Neeley
"saved by jesus. Jesus is not that guliable. ,
Agreed
He’s very cunning
Michael was a money making machine, and just by listening to him talk you can tell he had an education both book smart and streetsmart and that’s why he’s free and live in a peaceful life right now
The fact that Vlad didn't realize that a Capo (Caporegime) is literally a captain of crew is insanely laughable. Def the wrong person giving this interview.
Even I know that and I'm definitely not someone with any connections to Cosa Nostra. That information has been out ever since Joe Valachi opened his mouth and has been confirmed repeatedly by informants and insider turncoats for decades since. Not a hard thing to research at all.
Never tire of listening to Michael Franzese. Vlad, up your game with your questions, will you? Michael Franzese was very gracious with you and your questions today.
I like how he put that killing hundreds of people fallacy in proper perspective.
"I can count on both hands the number of guys THAT I KNOW that were murdered"
Love how smart Michael is when talking about things that he did xD
Right?! 😅
Michael Franzese -"Yeah he had some aliases, he would go by Glad".
Michael is a nice man to listen to.
Of all the guys you have on here.He sounds the most sincere because he isn't boasting about anything
I like how he called out the dishonesty on the part of both the FBI and some of these guys claiming to have killed so many people. I’ve wondered about these claims. If all of these people killed as many people as both parties claim, the population in the U.S. would be about 10% smaller, not to mention that it would be bad business on the part of the mafia. When bodies start stacking up, it starts to draw attention, particularly if they aren’t people, “in the life.”
Are you insanely stupid lol people are born every second and people die every second 100 people dying won’t drastically change the population
And this interview forced Michael to open up his own podcast to avoid guys like these😂😂😂
I love his honesty
When's the full interview drop?
120 guys really is ridiculous. He would be killing weekly, and that’s just one guy
Well that could be one kill every 2 months during his 25 year of criminal .. i think that’s very doable
Greg got into that life in the 50’s and died in the 90’s. 120 divided by 40 you get 3...3 kills a year is believable. Even after diagnosed with hiv he was still killing people.
@@pornneliushubbard1967 It isnt like the FBI was flatout feeding him info to get people killed and werre keeping count of everyone he killed or anything...oh wait. lol Franzese is just hyping up the life on the downlow while spitting on the goofy numbers the fbi throws out. Scarpa wasnt just some mob guy , he was a literal assassin. Part of his grim reaper moniker was that he was a known spook. It is why Scarpa's thing was always tangential and distant to the family, his government ties were a useful liability. all the wetwork he was doing was earning, it gave him cart blanche to kill other guys in the life without fear of the fbi, and they had a symbiotic relationship when it came to information which allowed the mob to feed them bad info and get people arrrested. 3-4 guys were dying everytime persico or orena would try and set up a hit, and it was his crew that was doing the majority of the killing on the persico side, so much so that when Scarpa stayed neutral they threatened to kill one of his crew. Most people knew Scarpa was a rat in some form of the other ( had a clear history of doing dirty work for the government) so he was immune from retaliation because they didnt want the fed heat . Fun Fact the Jimmy that worked under Scarpa is the same Jimmy that drove michael to what was almost his final sit down when they thought he was stealing from them.
also just speaking factually and realistically Scarpa and his relationship to the FBI was totally corrupt and out of hand., remember his handler got caught up in his mess too. 120 is probably the LOWEST guess because if those numbers were doctored they were lowered not raised which is the opposite of what the FBI normally does.
Also they had 115 made guys but Franzese is conveniently leaving out everyone lower on the totem pole. You cant just kill a capo not even if you are the grim reaper. lol it is very mob of franzese to forget about the associates that compromise most hit squads.
My dad killed 30-40 guys ! I can say it now he’s dead ! I admire Mr Franzese way of explaining the life to regular ppl !
3:30 he called HIM FED 💀🤣🤣🤣, micheal knows whassup.
I'll be at Resorts in A C in November 2022 for your show....
Gladimir Tv
Gladislav TV
Crunchy Black's interview may just be the single most influential 1st interview in the history of this channel. Goated for life
@@andrewlentner the most funny yes the goated no my guy
I mean, I'm no mob expert but even with my limited knowledge I deduced capo and captain was the same thing.
I mean, its pretty simple lol
this guys everywhere
Aw why'd you end it there, wanted to hear more
"Captain? You mean the Good Ship Lollipop!"
-Phil
Whatever happened there
120 kills 0 deaths his KDA must be good
1 death....
🤣
I love listening to Michael
Michael Franzese is the best interviewer, truly honest.
Vlad keeps prying. "Why do they call him the grim reaper ". Come on Vlad, you know damn well what that means.
Dry snitching. I keep tellin yall Vlad an informant.
@@TyFhoonBoom you really think Vlad gets info and puts it in briefcase and takes it the cops? If you seriously think Vlad is a cop the. Y'all are nuts and watched to much tv. They would never put out someone so obvious. People read Wikipedia and watch UA-cam and think they all know the streets . gtfoh
You do realize Vlad is an interviewer right? The goal of this is to get the interview subject talking. Of course Vlad knows what it means, he is trying to get an INTERVIEW going. All dumb questions interviewers ask are not because they are stupid themselves or because they dont understand, its because they want to interview subject to explain to the audience what is going on and to give information that they can then edit however they want.
EXACTLY WTF
I guess Vlad thought The Grim Reaper means he knits sweaters and sings xmas songs.😭😭😭
I meet this guy he came to anchorage ABT awesome guy to here him speak and some of his story about his dad and the way je changed his life when he was in prison.
Of all the mob guys I’ve seen on UA-cam Michael seems to be the most honest
"i could count on both hands the number of guys i know were murdered"- in other words, guys i killed 🤤
Bull shit
He was very careful😂
*It's totally possible and believable that he killed up to 120 people. He was arrested in 1992 and was operating since the 50s which is 40 years, which is an average of 3 killings a year.*
Mike was in the life u werent
?🤨
Yea we should just believe you UA-cam commenters than someone who was actually around these guys and living the life 🤦🏾♂️ what the fuck be wrong w/ y’all smh
@@NoBiasAllBoxing I myself have killed many, so it's totally possible.
I kill about 20 people in every match of call of duty so it’s possible.
You're a great speaker And a good man , it is what it is .
Thanks for asking him about scarpa vlad. Hope you asked him about bill cutolo and persico.
"Is a capo below a captain?"--.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Hank Hills dad Cotton Hill killed fiddy men
The man lost his shins
With no legs at that lol
Damn nazis and tojoes
Hey Mike did you ever have any dealings with Roy Demeo? I've always been curious about his personality and demeanor
He has answered that before he knew roy but didnt do business
Love Michael. He’s like a member of the family!
Good earner
“...He died of AIDS”. Great ending to that segment.
vlads terrible journalism rears its head 😭. that capo question was embarrassing
Hes probably asking for new viewers who don't know.
One thing I've learned in life: just because you can't comprehend it doesn't make it not true.
VLAD " Tell us about his aliases. Grim Reaper?"
Micheal: "Greg?"