Everyone wanted to buy Michael Franzese's gas because it was cheaper. It wasn't stolen gas, but gas that he never paid taxes on, because NY allowed you to pay the tax on the honor system(By the time they figured out taxes were owed, that company was out of business and Michael was nowhere on the paperwork. He was wholesaling all over the Northeast. When he retailed it, he collected the tax and kept it. Brilliant. He made tens of millions of dollars a month. He made so much money, but the Feds were all over him and locked him in the hole for other things. They were going to make an example of him, but he had never done anything too bad and they couldn't get him on the gas tax scam, but they knew about it.
I worked at my great uncle's gas station in Highland, NY in the summer as a kid. I remember meeting a Sicilian girl and her father delivered gas for Mobile. She was a sweetheart but had to break it off because her ex bf and she made up. I didn't realize why her father came by with his wife and daughter to smooth things out. My Uncle told me his gas was delivered in the middle of the night at a much cheaper price. He loaned money but was low profile. He got his gas from Michael and that crew.
It Wasn't micheal gas He was partner with the russians And we dont know how big his share was in that scheme Theres alot things when it comes to micheal franzes And lies are a big part of it
Only reason he got caught was because his partner snitched. The FBI knew what he was doing, but had no idea how he was doing it. His partner getting arrested was shady, there was no extradition in Panama at the time and his partner was wanted for his own personal tax issues, so he fled there. So the feds ended up sneaking down there and kid napping him and brought him back to the us. Don’t think that’s 100% legal but the government is gonna government.
MF went to prison for the gas tax scam. He plead guilty, sentenced to prison, and was ordered to pay millions in restitution. So I am not sure how you can say "they could never get him on it".
Let the man speak and stop interrupting him. You ask a question and you get your answer. STOP interrupting your guests, allow them to finish their sentences.
when you run out of money, when your phone stops ringing, when everyone leaves you, when you find yourself alone... remember this, those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy
@@JulianLeahy yeah its psalms 126:5 homie thinks he is samuel l jackson quoting ezekiel in the end of pulp fiction lmao
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The gasoline wasn't stolen. Long story short, he bought the gasoline legally but didn't pay the state tax. He was pocketing the tax per gallon. He would open a new corporation and use it to buy the gas, then after a short period of time he would stop using that corporation and start using another to purchase the gasoline. He used so many shell companies the authorities just couldn't keep up. He said he knew eventually they would catch him.
Keep it up Johnny Mitchell! Iv listened to other people interviewing guest that you have had on the connect and you ask all the right questions, you know exactly what to say and keep the interview going for 2 hours or more love what your doing dont stop !
Sonny not only killed his own brother, but his son Michael also said that his father let him walk into a room knowing he could be killed bc the higher ups thought he may turn.
Wen did Sonny kill his brother ? Where’d you get that ? You mean Greg scrapa killed his brother. Btw the meeting had nothing to do wit him turning.. it had to do wit , if he was turning in the correct amount of money🤦♂️
Franzese did NOT steal the gas. He got the gas from the same sources every other gas station owner gets it from. But he just kept the taxes. I mean there is a certain amount of tax on every galone of gas which the customers pay of course and as a gas station owner you kinda have to forward this tax to the government but Franzese just didn't and kept it instead. He could do it for about a year before the government came down on this particular gas station and if they did he filed bankruptcy with this gas station and opens a new one a week later. So imagine that ... people are filling their cars with gas at your gas station and you just keep the taxes that are attached to every galon of gas. Now you're doing it with literally hundreds of gas stations for about a year until the government wants the taxes. You close the station then and just open a new one over and over again. So you don't have to steal the gas because you're making millions with the kept taxes. Therefore you can offer cheaper prices of course which is why everyone buys his gas from one of your gas stations. This is how it worked.
@@ereckit1972No this is not correct. This dude basically just wrote an entire book about the gas tax scam and has no clue what he is talking about. MF would illegally, through bribes, obtain the wholesale licenses to purchase the gas, then sell it to the gas stations. When gas stations sold the gas they collected the tax and would then turn that money over to the distributor, which was MF. This whole idea that he filed bankruptcy on multiple gas stations is nonsense.
@@civilianx5294that's what I thought too. I'm fairly certain MF said he got it from the Russians and that they were actually easier to deal with than Italians
Maybe 20 years ago I saw a breakdown of what goes into the cost of gas and about 25% was actual cost and profit. The rest was all taxes. It's probably much worse now.
The greatest mobster of all time was a man named Tommaso Gagliano. He was the ultimate and greatest mafia boss of all time. He ruled his family for 20 years and steered his family through some turbulent times with the creation of the Commission and made a mint for his family during WWII. When he died in 1951 he wasn't even on the radar with the FBI. Gagliano kept an extremely low profile and had alot of buffers. Upon his death Tommy Luchesse took over and still bears his name 57 years of his death.
I read about Tommaso Gagliano..He was absolutely the greatest boss of all time..The guy was so under the radar that he's not widely known till this day..
Thats one of the hardest things for criminals, especially gangsters, bank robbers and heisters, serial killers. They crave some form of attention, notoriety, reputation, power or something close and end up getting too much of a rep and end up on the wrong radars and get snapped. Tommasa and a few others I know of make me wonder how many proper criminals have never been caught and some probably we will never know of. I know this old guy, never been arrested or even pulled over, grew and sold weed under the radar for over 40 years, I met him when he was 80, his advice was: Never get bigger than you can handle alone, Don't shit in your own backyard, Always trust your gut and never care for the money, once you start doing things solely for the money you are fucked and its a matter of time before your dead or locked away.
Of course Lucchese kept his name even 57 years after his demise. He couldn’t resurrect himself and ask for a legal name change. His mob family kept the name, you jerkoff!
You kidding us? This guy is an excellent interviewer. He asks questions deep yet simple enough to not only pacify the knowledgeable, but also educate the recently interested. Approached the interview with an open mind and a childlike curiosity. He didnt interrupt, he asked some hard hitting questions. What more can we ask for in an interviewer?
He made a ton of money ,did minimal time in ,and is living a great life still..i agree franzese is one of the best gangsters ever..he did tell but he just played the game perfectly..
Joe, where did you get that shirt!? Nat Nast? Most Tony Soprano shirts were Nat Nast. $155 brand new, $50 used on eBay 100% Silk. I hope you guys can provide the maker of Joes shirt. Thanks D
Even bigger the Al Capone,Lucky Luciano or Mayer Lansky.Not really,he was never on the level of those guys. That dtatmant is over rated.Micheal was lucky to be in Good place and in right time with gas business.
Luciano and Lansky weren't all that rich. Capone absolutely was, and Carlo Gambino, but even Frank Lucas made more than any of the other Italians outside of them. Lansky definitely was involved with making a lot of money, but it wasn't all going to him and he had less than $60K when he died. You're also right, though, that even with Michael being a helluva earner, he's not on that level, either. He was making a bit over a million a month in gas and his other ventures, but he was a Capo having to kick up and he wasn't running all that long.
In Dollar amount, maybe. Obviously that doesn't take inflation into account, so it's hard to compare him to say, Capone or Luciano. But there is no doubt that he was extremely successful and the money that he had earned the mob was a game changer. Because of him, the mob made enough money to invest in more legitimate enterprises, which is why you almost never hear anything from them anymore.
@@nightrider12soul Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Mayer Lansky made most of thier money by selling junk, booze, hookers and gambling over many more years than Michael Franzese did by keeping the tax money on fuel. IMO, it's about even in comparison. Kind regards.
These American mafia heroes talk more and squeal louder than drunk women. Have less loyalty than Italy in WW2. They just make a joke & embarrass themselves. Becoming 0:36 'made' used to mean something, that didnt include podcasting.
Anyone who betrays an oath they took, no matter what oath it is, and no matter who it’s to, should be ignored. I took an oath to defend my country against all enemies, domestic and foreign, the belief is stronger today than when I initially took that oath.
Yeah I'm under no illusion that Gotti was a good person or anything but government creating RICO with life sentences + rats is what killed LCN, saying Sr did is a total cop out and usually it's someone who doesn't have a clue just yappin
This is true but he never would've been given a deal or offered anything by the government for "ratting" so why and who would he rat too? The government wanted him in prison and that's it. He could've offered every member and the government wouldn't have cared or listened
Do you really think that's a coincidence that the guy you were suppose to hit got arrested right after you say you told your FBI handler that you got the contract? Your handler could not be privy to that and do nothing. Your FBI handler did not give you permission to kill anyone.
I don’t know how grown men grown adults can be robbing and stealing while everyone else is out there working hard getting up commuting paying bills and you have these grown men out there acting like a bunch of children stealing robbing I mean really
Noone really cares…sorry to ruin your day. I’m gunna take a shot in the dark and say that your screen name represents “LC” for ‘Little Cock’, “V” because it’s a ‘Very’ little cock, and the “Blades Edge” stands for just how wide Mr. Johnson is-about as wide as a ‘Blade’s Edge”. Good luck pleasing a woman/man, much less yourself. May wanna look into some surgery alternatives if my predictions of you having a smaller-than-average cum cannon. Good luck in fixing it however you see fit. Hell your boyfriend/wife may not can handle anything bigger…
Franzese didnt have to buy stolen gas , gas prices are like 30 percent taxes so if you can sell gas for ten percent less than everyone else and pocket 20 percent still you make a ton of money pretty simple shell game scheme
He was 100% a captain. Who tf is she. Regardless if people wanted him to be a captain or not, you bring in the money he was you’re automatically gonna be made captain.
Man, these mob podcasts are really getting water down granted there’s probably hundreds and hundreds of these so-called associates with the mafia but it’s starting to get a little silly
He wasn't stealing the gas. Wtf? He just had a bunch of gas stations that he was able to sell the gas cheaper because he wasn't paying the taxes to the government the gas he was selling. He made so much because he undercut the market so he'd get the most business.
He made money selling the gas to other gas stations. They charged basically the same price but their margins were 6% higher or whatever the gas tax was that got cut out. The tax on the gas was stolen from the citizens.
When a guy like that gets to the top without any violence, he's looked at like something very special. There were other families interested in him. Everyone liked him and that can be a problem for a mafioso. Inspiring jealousy. Hold on... And Michael kept his cool and did that very well, but he's an example of the racketeer getting in good with the mafia against all odds. Michael had some rough moments, as he will tell you. Definitely the GOAT. I get the feeling he could have done something like his wine or whatever he's into now then. He would have been good at anything. Mike and the Colombos weren't into the drugs. They had a very strict policy. Some guys did the kiddie dope (Cocaine, when it first came around the cops didn't take it very seriously), they called it "kiddie dope". They Colombos were especially not into the drug trade. More than any other family. It was too dangerous to be a guy dealing in that crew. I knew some guys partying with it, but not doing what the Gambinos, Bonnanos, in NY, Vito Rizzuto in Canada and the Trafficantes in Florida. That was a whole thing for a long time. I get the feeling they made the laws about no drugs in the Italian Mafia just to stop the competition. They didn't want the Colombos dealing and competing with them. So they all told them nobody is doing it and it is against the commission. That was how they made a monopoly.
John Gotti was in the spotlight all the time strategically. That was one way that would be very hard to cap him with so many cameras on him at all times. If he didn’t talk about murders, who knows, he might still be alive today and possibly not even in jail.
I remember Frank cullotta saying the same thing when he was asked how he felt about being under surveillance 24/7 he just looked at it as an anti Wack mechanism.
The gas thing involved n exemption for the Russian connect to transport it from his company to another company which would in reality transport it to the stations for retail sale. On paper, that company "sold" it to shell companies that would then be on the hook for the tax of the retail sales. But they just closed the shells and never paid the taxes.
For the love of God, why are you bleeping out the words 'shit' and 'fuck' when the conversation is literally about killing people. LOL Think about it..
youtube, they get no money for views if there's "bad" words. Silly as hell, but 'Muricans will Murican. You can openly talk about murder, but can't say a bad word, because then you'll be in real trouble. 🤣
Apocalypse now...we train young men to drop fire on people yet there commanders will not allow them to write fuck on their aroplanes...because ...its obscene...he he
Street Shit , Gang , MoB , Cartel Lyfe in a Nutshell is the Devil .. The ways and mental process that goes into the decision making is Not only heartless but nonsensical..
It’s literally no different than any other organization or government. The delusional idea that the FBI isn’t the same or worse is hilarious. Or the church, or google. Stop being naive.
He would set up a shell company, and then by the gas sell it cheaper than legitimate places and it was on the people selling the gas to collect the taxes and turn them into the government . he just wouldn't turn them into the government when the government got wise, that company went away and he would start a new one.
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Everyone wanted to buy Michael Franzese's gas because it was cheaper. It wasn't stolen gas, but gas that he never paid taxes on, because NY allowed you to pay the tax on the honor system(By the time they figured out taxes were owed, that company was out of business and Michael was nowhere on the paperwork.
He was wholesaling all over the Northeast. When he retailed it, he collected the tax and kept it. Brilliant. He made tens of millions of dollars a month. He made so much money, but the Feds were all over him and locked him in the hole for other things. They were going to make an example of him, but he had never done anything too bad and they couldn't get him on the gas tax scam, but they knew about it.
I worked at my great uncle's gas station in Highland, NY in the summer as a kid. I remember meeting a Sicilian girl and her father delivered gas for Mobile. She was a sweetheart but had to break it off because her ex bf and she made up.
I didn't realize why her father came by with his wife and daughter to smooth things out. My Uncle told me his gas was delivered in the middle of the night at a much cheaper price.
He loaned money but was low profile.
He got his gas from Michael and that crew.
It Wasn't micheal gas
He was partner with the russians
And we dont know how big his share was in that scheme
Theres alot things when it comes to micheal franzes
And lies are a big part of it
I read that the gas scam was concocted by the Russian Mafia and then Michael partnered with them.
Only reason he got caught was because his partner snitched. The FBI knew what he was doing, but had no idea how he was doing it. His partner getting arrested was shady, there was no extradition in Panama at the time and his partner was wanted for his own personal tax issues, so he fled there. So the feds ended up sneaking down there and kid napping him and brought him back to the us. Don’t think that’s 100% legal but the government is gonna government.
MF went to prison for the gas tax scam. He plead guilty, sentenced to prison, and was ordered to pay millions in restitution. So I am not sure how you can say "they could never get him on it".
Let the man speak and stop interrupting him. You ask a question and you get your answer. STOP interrupting your guests, allow them to finish their sentences.
Ikr interrupting pisses me right off
This guys is NOT a guest, he is a RAT‼️
I think it’s ADHD, an inability to keep quiet.
If the interviewer keeps interrupting it’s not an interview, it’s just two dudes talking.
He also looks at the camera way too often.. it’s odd.
when you run out of money, when your phone stops ringing, when everyone leaves you, when you find yourself alone... remember this, those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy
Yeah and a pint of blood is worth more than a gallon of gold
@@nealcomstock1958 LOL, you heard Little Carmine in that, too, eh? :)
what does that even mean? if you sow tears you will get happy?
What’s your point?
@@JulianLeahy yeah its psalms 126:5 homie thinks he is samuel l jackson quoting ezekiel in the end of pulp fiction lmao
The gasoline wasn't stolen. Long story short, he bought the gasoline legally but didn't pay the state tax. He was pocketing the tax per gallon. He would open a new corporation and use it to buy the gas, then after a short period of time he would stop using that corporation and start using another to purchase the gasoline. He used so many shell companies the authorities just couldn't keep up. He said he knew eventually they would catch him.
Yeah he did what most fortune 500 companies do.
Facts!!?😅😅😅
That is Crazy🥵
Keep it up Johnny Mitchell! Iv listened to other people interviewing guest that you have had on the connect and you ask all the right questions, you know exactly what to say and keep the interview going for 2 hours or more love what your doing dont stop !
Sonny not only killed his own brother, but his son Michael also said that his father let him walk into a room knowing he could be killed bc the higher ups thought he may turn.
Absolute scum.
His Dad was a Moron.
Wen did Sonny kill his brother ? Where’d you get that ? You mean Greg scrapa killed his brother. Btw the meeting had nothing to do wit him turning.. it had to do wit , if he was turning in the correct amount of money🤦♂️
😂
@@xavierjames8085I never heard about sonny killing his brother either. I did not know about Greg. Was it his older brother?
Franzese did NOT steal the gas. He got the gas from the same sources every other gas station owner gets it from. But he just kept the taxes. I mean there is a certain amount of tax on every galone of gas which the customers pay of course and as a gas station owner you kinda have to forward this tax to the government but Franzese just didn't and kept it instead. He could do it for about a year before the government came down on this particular gas station and if they did he filed bankruptcy with this gas station and opens a new one a week later. So imagine that ... people are filling their cars with gas at your gas station and you just keep the taxes that are attached to every galon of gas. Now you're doing it with literally hundreds of gas stations for about a year until the government wants the taxes. You close the station then and just open a new one over and over again. So you don't have to steal the gas because you're making millions with the kept taxes. Therefore you can offer cheaper prices of course which is why everyone buys his gas from one of your gas stations. This is how it worked.
Absolutely correct! I ran a few stations in the late 80’s early 90’s. Wild times
@@ereckit1972No this is not correct. This dude basically just wrote an entire book about the gas tax scam and has no clue what he is talking about. MF would illegally, through bribes, obtain the wholesale licenses to purchase the gas, then sell it to the gas stations. When gas stations sold the gas they collected the tax and would then turn that money over to the distributor, which was MF. This whole idea that he filed bankruptcy on multiple gas stations is nonsense.
@@civilianx5294that's what I thought too. I'm fairly certain MF said he got it from the Russians and that they were actually easier to deal with than Italians
It’s what the Arabs do when they pass IT down to a son or nephew 😂😂
I'd still rather pay MF gas taxes than the government 😅
Maybe 20 years ago I saw a breakdown of what goes into the cost of gas and about 25% was actual cost and profit. The rest was all taxes. It's probably much worse now.
The greatest mobster of all time was a man named Tommaso Gagliano. He was the ultimate and greatest mafia boss of all time. He ruled his family for 20 years and steered his family through some turbulent times with the creation of the Commission and made a mint for his family during WWII. When he died in 1951 he wasn't even on the radar with the FBI. Gagliano kept an extremely low profile and had alot of buffers. Upon his death Tommy Luchesse took over and still bears his name 57 years of his death.
I read about Tommaso Gagliano..He was absolutely the greatest boss of all time..The guy was so under the radar that he's not widely known till this day..
Thats one of the hardest things for criminals, especially gangsters, bank robbers and heisters, serial killers. They crave some form of attention, notoriety, reputation, power or something close and end up getting too much of a rep and end up on the wrong radars and get snapped. Tommasa and a few others I know of make me wonder how many proper criminals have never been caught and some probably we will never know of. I know this old guy, never been arrested or even pulled over, grew and sold weed under the radar for over 40 years, I met him when he was 80, his advice was: Never get bigger than you can handle alone, Don't shit in your own backyard, Always trust your gut and never care for the money, once you start doing things solely for the money you are fucked and its a matter of time before your dead or locked away.
He is up their along with Tony accardo. Was he Sicilian or northern italian.
@@michaelfederico2873 He was from Corleone, Sicily.
Of course Lucchese kept his name even 57 years after his demise. He couldn’t resurrect himself and ask for a legal name change. His mob family kept the name, you jerkoff!
Johnny shopped at Maurys wigs
hahaha great !
Maurys wigs don't come off! Come on in for a personalized fitting....
Very funny.
😂😂😂
Not even hurricane force winds
Johnny would get wacked just for that hairpiece 😂
Can't unsee the piece now
Someone should introduce him to a hat
😂
@Craig-gk2gr hahah nice
Still can't unsee it, everytime now
The interviewer is a crack up. He’s notorious for not having done any homework about the people he interviews and it’s always funny. 😂😂😂😂
And he never remembers anything about what the guest just said 30 seconds ago. He has to be on something to be so confused about everything.
Like the majority of interviewees.😂
i thought i was the only one amazed at how unprepared he is. Rather annoying. I almost cant listen.
@@marilinwisbey7403 on the internet...they are not professional
You kidding us? This guy is an excellent interviewer. He asks questions deep yet simple enough to not only pacify the knowledgeable, but also educate the recently interested.
Approached the interview with an open mind and a childlike curiosity.
He didnt interrupt, he asked some hard hitting questions.
What more can we ask for in an interviewer?
He made a ton of money ,did minimal time in ,and is living a great life still..i agree franzese is one of the best gangsters ever..he did tell but he just played the game perfectly..
We have a lot of respect for him. Not everybody likes him but the people that know him consider he was a man of respect
If u tell whats alrdy known about things that wont hurt anybody..its not a tell..its a gamble with 4 Aces in ur hand
He was a rat.
LMAO... you don't play the game well and do jail time. That's what we call a schmuck! His day is still coming!
@@busterbiloxi3833 how he plead guilty and did 8 years
Good video keep op the good work❤
Joe, where did you get that shirt!?
Nat Nast?
Most Tony Soprano shirts were Nat Nast. $155 brand new, $50 used on eBay 100% Silk.
I hope you guys can provide the maker of Joes shirt.
Thanks
D
Talks about MF for 2 minutes at the end….
A bunch of cheese eaters
@yumm. greggsiano5920
@@greggsiano5920cry about it
Im like no , im 5minutes in & he's still talkin about that muthaFuqer🤣
@@greggsiano5920 Oh you are talking about the French
I would say the Micheal F was the greatest Racketeer of all time.
Even bigger the Al Capone,Lucky Luciano or Mayer Lansky.Not really,he was never on the level of those guys.
That dtatmant is over rated.Micheal was lucky to be in Good place and in right time with gas business.
Tge greatest racketeers are I Washington d.c
Luciano and Lansky weren't all that rich. Capone absolutely was, and Carlo Gambino, but even Frank Lucas made more than any of the other Italians outside of them. Lansky definitely was involved with making a lot of money, but it wasn't all going to him and he had less than $60K when he died.
You're also right, though, that even with Michael being a helluva earner, he's not on that level, either. He was making a bit over a million a month in gas and his other ventures, but he was a Capo having to kick up and he wasn't running all that long.
In Dollar amount, maybe. Obviously that doesn't take inflation into account, so it's hard to compare him to say, Capone or Luciano.
But there is no doubt that he was extremely successful and the money that he had earned the mob was a game changer. Because of him, the mob made enough money to invest in more legitimate enterprises, which is why you almost never hear anything from them anymore.
@@nightrider12soul Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Mayer Lansky made most of thier money by selling junk, booze, hookers and gambling over many more years than Michael Franzese did by keeping the tax money on fuel. IMO, it's about even in comparison. Kind regards.
Nice vid... informative
LOL exactly !!!
Golly. This kid with the college look is hard taken seriously
All these mafia tuff guys sing louder then Whitney Houston
Michael Franzese was known for passing gas straight through.
These American mafia heroes talk more and squeal louder than drunk women. Have less loyalty than Italy in WW2. They just make a joke & embarrass themselves. Becoming 0:36 'made' used to mean something, that didnt include podcasting.
Dude ur from Australia lol nobody cares about that place
18 years he was fugazi
Says even more about the FBI than these guys
The Mafia killed Omerta😂
That CAN'T be the host's real hair! 🤣🤣🤣
Excellent interview
Good interview
I’m not joking. This guy looks like Robert Barone, Raymond’s brother from everybody loves Raymond.
Yeah without the height
😂😂😂 i can’t unsee this
As an aside, I loved what the media was calling him back then: The Yuppie Don...LMAO
Is Johnny rocking a piece up there?
Anyone who betrays an oath they took, no matter what oath it is, and no matter who it’s to, should be ignored. I took an oath to defend my country against all enemies, domestic and foreign, the belief is stronger today than when I initially took that oath.
Why don't anybody ever talk about John Gotti never ratting and he never ratted
Yeah I'm under no illusion that Gotti was a good person or anything but government creating RICO with life sentences + rats is what killed LCN, saying Sr did is a total cop out and usually it's someone who doesn't have a clue just yappin
facts Johnny was Mafia to the core! A mans man.
This is true but he never would've been given a deal or offered anything by the government for "ratting" so why and who would he rat too? The government wanted him in prison and that's it. He could've offered every member and the government wouldn't have cared or listened
@@kevinouellette5316exactly John was the ultimate goal for them
His son did
Why say " nice" when the man says he has more devastating ammunition?
It certainly isn't " nice"
You'd have to be on their good side for them to be considered nice.
He’ll give you the details of You could the stfu!! LOL
Good interviews
Do you really think that's a coincidence that the guy you were suppose to hit got arrested right after you say you told your FBI handler that you got the contract? Your handler could not be privy to that and do nothing. Your FBI handler did not give you permission to kill anyone.
Dom planned on killing him Feb 14th, but Dom was arrested in January. Joe here just doesn't remember the dates.
I don’t know how grown men grown adults can be robbing and stealing while everyone else is out there working hard getting up commuting paying bills and you have these grown men out there acting like a bunch of children stealing robbing I mean really
Once a psychopath - always a psychopath. And the symptoms show up in childhood.
You talking about the republicans or democrats?
That's why they are called gangsters an your a civilian.. gangsters don't go by the law an rules civilians do....
Ask the government they're the best at it on a worldwide scale.
lol bro your politicians are neck and neck with the mob .
Thanks for the great content man. I’d love to share my story
Noone really cares…sorry to ruin your day. I’m gunna take a shot in the dark and say that your screen name represents “LC” for ‘Little Cock’, “V” because it’s a ‘Very’ little cock, and the “Blades Edge” stands for just how wide Mr. Johnson is-about as wide as a ‘Blade’s Edge”. Good luck pleasing a woman/man, much less yourself. May wanna look into some surgery alternatives if my predictions of you having a smaller-than-average cum cannon. Good luck in fixing it however you see fit. Hell your boyfriend/wife may not can handle anything bigger…
He loves spilling the beans for sure 🤣
Hair looking great JM
Franzese didnt have to buy stolen gas , gas prices are like 30 percent taxes so if you can sell gas for ten percent less than everyone else and pocket 20 percent still you make a ton of money pretty simple shell game scheme
This guys an awesome storyteller.
According to Sandra Peddie, Michael was never an official captain. She states in his father’s book that he only told people he was. Who knows
How she knew she’s woman
Who the hell is Sandra peddie? Women never knew what was really going on. Especially back then.
He was 100% a captain. Who tf is she. Regardless if people wanted him to be a captain or not, you bring in the money he was you’re automatically gonna be made captain.
Sandie Peddie says a lot of things that aren’t true. Don’t think for a second that Sonny would ever tell a reporter the truth
@@lc4295exactly
What’s up with this hair all of a sudden?!! 😂 WTF?!
It's a cheap rug.
he looks like Jeff Bezos with hair
😂
God never lets people out of hell
Awesome interview…
Man, these mob podcasts are really getting water down granted there’s probably hundreds and hundreds of these so-called associates with the mafia but it’s starting to get a little silly
Don’t listen 😂
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Everyone snithing 😮
One thing I know is crooks talk bs. Don’t believe anyone who would rob their own granny.
You don’t know a fucking thing. Nerd.
Well said! To give these idiots screen time is stupid.
The Bonannos are probably the most talked about family.
Gambinos
"Just for sleeping with a guys wife". man!..how far has virtue fallen.
The greatest mobsters are the ones we will never know about, not the ones on UA-cam or the news.
Ur hairs lookin crazy brotha lmaoo
If I was a mobster I would love to have the name gorgeous 😂 no Diddy 😂
He wasn't stealing the gas. Wtf? He just had a bunch of gas stations that he was able to sell the gas cheaper because he wasn't paying the taxes to the government the gas he was selling. He made so much because he undercut the market so he'd get the most business.
He made money selling the gas to other gas stations. They charged basically the same price but their margins were 6% higher or whatever the gas tax was that got cut out. The tax on the gas was stolen from the citizens.
Dude, why the click bait, not very true title eh
Thats what they do. They could using Micheal face or name so people click to hear theyre bull
@@accavanos every time i see this i instantly unsub. Luckily all the good ones dont do it
I honestly wasn’t expecting them to talk much about Michael. This borderline clickbait stuff has become a common UA-cam gimmick anymore.
It must be great being the number one scumbag what an achievement 😂😂😂
20:40 What are you talking about, dude?
It was a tax scam. He didn't steal gasoline and sell it 😂
Is this guy Barone related to gas pipe? They have some very similar expressions.
Vlad and the connect just saying
This is better because he’s not dropping 100 1 minute clips before dropping the whole episode lol
So basically, Vlad gets black guys to snitch on themselves, and The Connect gets white guts and everyone else to snitch on themselves.
Yeah the snitching is off the scale 😂😂😂
When a guy like that gets to the top without any violence, he's looked at like something very special. There were other families interested in him. Everyone liked him and that can be a problem for a mafioso. Inspiring jealousy. Hold on...
And Michael kept his cool and did that very well, but he's an example of the racketeer getting in good with the mafia against all odds. Michael had some rough moments, as he will tell you. Definitely the GOAT. I get the feeling he could have done something like his wine or whatever he's into now then. He would have been good at anything.
Mike and the Colombos weren't into the drugs. They had a very strict policy. Some guys did the kiddie dope (Cocaine, when it first came around the cops didn't take it very seriously), they called it "kiddie dope". They Colombos were especially not into the drug trade. More than any other family. It was too dangerous to be a guy dealing in that crew. I knew some guys partying with it, but not doing what the Gambinos, Bonnanos, in NY, Vito Rizzuto in Canada and the Trafficantes in Florida. That was a whole thing for a long time. I get the feeling they made the laws about no drugs in the Italian Mafia just to stop the competition. They didn't want the Colombos dealing and competing with them. So they all told them nobody is doing it and it is against the commission. That was how they made a monopoly.
I note that these thugs operate mostly in places where gun ownership and concealed carry is mostly prohibited.
and yet no one mentions Marco Mangananzzo or Tony Bunnini
Ha! Funny!
Michael Franzese was a Columbo, not a Bonnano.
No really😂
Nope hes not both
Michael is top 5 but the Greatest ever was “Lucky”
This dude was talking to the feds for like 20 years I think 😂😂😂😂
I thought you could never kill a boss
Stolen gas? Where’d he get the gas from?!? This is a popular show???
Johnny buddy wtf is that hair piece? It looks ridiculous
it's a hat
@@richarddenny5340Johny wants to be a rockabilly star.
Joe “ the groundhog” Barone. Scared of his own shadow.
What is the thumbnail have to do with this clip?
And who told you Sonny killed his own brother? Which brother??
John Gotti was in the spotlight all the time strategically. That was one way that would be very hard to cap him with so many cameras on him at all times. If he didn’t talk about murders, who knows, he might still be alive today and possibly not even in jail.
I remember Frank cullotta saying the same thing when he was asked how he felt about being under surveillance 24/7 he just looked at it as an anti Wack mechanism.
He should definitely interview Sammy
I even met his dad in a diner in new roch
My guy got a toupee
CLICKBAIT ONLY..... DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT MICHAEL UNTIL THE END
The gas thing involved n exemption for the Russian connect to transport it from his company to another company which would in reality transport it to the stations for retail sale. On paper, that company "sold" it to shell companies that would then be on the hook for the tax of the retail sales. But they just closed the shells and never paid the taxes.
What about Tony Accardo?
Those bullets are called hydra shok. Not hydra shot.
A whole 20 minutes before you get to the title subject.
For the love of God, why are you bleeping out the words 'shit' and 'fuck' when the conversation is literally about killing people. LOL Think about it..
Good point.
Just thinking the same thing 🙄
youtube, they get no money for views if there's "bad" words. Silly as hell, but 'Muricans will Murican. You can openly talk about murder, but can't say a bad word, because then you'll be in real trouble. 🤣
Apocalypse now...we train young men to drop fire on people yet there commanders will not allow them to write fuck on their aroplanes...because ...its obscene...he he
Exactly.... vladtv seems to do the same too
The real gangsters are the good fathers and mothers who work to earn their money. They don’t lie and follow life’s rules of not harming the public.
Bronson said that at the end of Magnificent Seven
Bravo carry on being a sheep and a slave and controlled by the puppeteers that control society
Well I didn’t copy bronson I came to conclusion myself. It’s the truth
Street Shit , Gang , MoB , Cartel Lyfe in a Nutshell is the Devil ..
The ways and mental process that goes into the decision making is Not only heartless but nonsensical..
They act like they have honour when in reality they are the most dishonorable men that ever existed.
It’s literally no different than any other organization or government. The delusional idea that the FBI isn’t the same or worse is hilarious. Or the church, or google. Stop being naive.
Aka the US period
What is the name of that hitman?
What was this guys name?
Didn't Mikey the Nose kill his wife? I thought Joe Massino was wired and got Vincent Basciano to talk about all of this
Al Capone was the greatest mob boss of all time.
Hydra shock has never been illegal, Rhino bullets are legal too....
Yeah, kinda makes me wonder what else he's talking shit about, also.
That was the Columbo and Michael that did the gas tax
He owned Barone Sanitation!
Mob doesn't pay for hits, u move up in standing. Get made, maybe become a captain. But no pay thats crap
He would set up a shell company, and then by the gas sell it cheaper than legitimate places and it was on the people selling the gas to collect the taxes and turn them into the government . he just wouldn't turn them into the government when the government got wise, that company went away and he would start a new one.
Who is this wonderful person?
Shot for sleeping with a colleague/mates girlfriend - tell that to the ex England footballer John Terry 😂😂!!
Idk bout Genovese being in top,Gambino's certainly stronger than ever,since early gotti era
Why is this hitman, i.e. murderer, free on the streets??!!
What made him want to be an informant ? Thats what i dont get.
These mafia guys sing louder than Billie Eilish
The criminal knowledge of the host is nonexistent and at times massively cringey!
Mikey the tooth 🦷 !
Mikey root canal ...
Mikey brights ! 🌞
Dom wants to brush thoes pearls .. 🪥 💰