Highest Paid Mafia Boss Discusses His Steps to Success

my father told me something he said mike remember three things three words that are going to take you make you have an easy goal with other guys remember to say please thank you and excuse me you know because you bunk into somebody excuse me you know yes somebody please may i have this you don't cut in front of people on the line so little silly things become major things god so you can't throw your weight around no you can't take any nonsense but you know people have to understand you may be the silent type but don't mess with me and i'm not going to disrespect you don't disrespect me believe it or not [Music] sometimes you may be the smartest person in the room and you don't want anybody to know that you just want to keep quiet like you don't know anything let them think they're smarter than you and there's other times when uh you're not the smartest person in the room but you want people to think you are so you have to learn how to have that skill and we had certain rules you know if you're a made guy and you're at a sit down you had to be respectful no matter what the situation was in other words if i'm a made guy and i'm arguing something and i'm lying and you know i'm lying you can't call me a liar if you call me a liar you lose the argument automatically you have to figure out a way to make people know that you're wrong that this guy is wrong and i'm right and the old time was very tactful at this you know they would try to get you into a trap or you would just say something and you're done it's all over so you had to really learn how to respectfully get your point across and you had to know the mentality of the personality of the person going in well you don't defeat them these old-timers were smart you know they were cagey i had so many of these because it was like every day in my life when i was in the gas business i had somebody trying to take over somebody trying to get in because you know in new york there's a lot of us and we were constantly engaging with one another on different matters and i had a big crew so the guys in my crew got in trouble at it sit down with it was constant boy of business so you learn how to carry yourself there and it really helped me in my negotiation skills in business it really helped because going in i would figure out what i wanted what i would settle for and i would keep you know i learned one thing it's always great to let the other person talk let them talk let them just keep talking throw out a word that gets them a little bit and he'll talk more and as he's talking you can kind of figure out his mentality his personality what you can get at him what you can't get out of him and it helped me a lot in negotiating deals later on that life is like it's like a wheel turning around and the guy that's on the bottom today can end up being on the top tomorrow and so a guy that you didn't have much respect for um now you better respect it so because of that you always try to treat people the wrong way yeah very because you never know you know where that guy's gonna be the next day or the next week i always say i knew how to put the right people in the right place and get them and motivated them to do the work properly my mantra always was at that time do what you do best and delegate the rest and that always worked for me until today you know there's things that i'm just not good at and i don't even try to do them i don't want to be bothered with it but i'll get somebody that's going to do them a lot better than jobs oh yeah yeah i had to because i got a lot of stuff thrown at me and i recognized what was good and what wasn't going to work and that's important because you can waste your time with stuff all day long that's what gave me the leverage to negotiate the deal that i got when you have time to think and really analyze the way life going you look back and i said man all these negatives turned into a positive for me they gave me breaks that i didn't realize were happening at that time you know it's a big part of my faith when i talk to people i said you know that the misery that you're going through now might be the blessing for you later on [Music] i was 17 years old when my dad drew a 50-year prison sentence and when he went away joe columbo the boss of our family who we were close with he kind of took me under his wing because my dad was his underboss and i started to meet a lot more of my dad's friends you know and they were influencing me mike you know what are you doing going to school i was a pre-med student at that time shortly after that you know if you don't help your father out he's going to die in prison he didn't want that i mean he kind of argued no i want you to go to school get an education i said that's too late my mind is made up and he said to me he said if you're going to be on the street then i want you on the street the right way and how was what was that process like was there a ritual was there an experience yet to go through very very solemn ceremony very serious uh six of us walked into a room individually towards midnight that night it was a very secure setting obviously and i walked down the aisle stood in front of the boss i held out my hand he took a knife right here cut my finger some blood dropped on the floor this is a blood oath i cupped my hands took a picture of a saint catholic altar card put it on my hands and lit it a flame it didn't hurt it burned quickly it was just symbolic tonight michael francies who are born again and to a new life until it causes an ulster this thing of ours violate what you know about this life betray your brothers and you will die and burn in hell like the saint is burning in your hands do you accept yes i do and that's it that's the ritual god never throws you into the fire without preparing you first so i spent 20 years in that life at a very high level and i was a good student of the life i i observed and i watched and i i reached a certain level there so i knew i had to make changes you know one of the horrors about that life and i don't know if you know this but you might be in trouble in serious trouble your best friend walks you into a room you don't walk out again and unfortunately i've experienced that in my life with other people and so i said okay um they're not going to walk me into a room they're going to have to work to get me i never put a house in my name no utilities i i never went to any nightclubs bad place for me i know who hangs out there i stopped creating patterns in my life so if somebody was scoping me they had a tough time in figuring out where i was i was very disciplined in that very disciplined because i never sell my former associates short there's very capable guys there and then what happened um i just outlasted everybody i mean who went to jail who got killed we had a big war in our family in the early 90s about 13 guys got killed another 20 or something went to jail for life and i just outlasted everybody you know the major thing for me was that i never testified against anybody i didn't send anybody to prison i didn't put anybody in trouble i i don't know if everybody really knows what kind of numbers you were bringing in the numbers i read about you were making six to eight mill a week six to eight million per week and you were selling a half a billion dollars of gas per month people think that mob guys sit around in their social clubs and we start to target different businesses well we're going to take that over we're going to do this normally doesn't happen that way what happens is people come to us people would come to me with all sorts of deals and it was mostly guys that came inside the company that had a way to make some money and they figured they could do with me i can protect them i can finance them we have strength you know all that and that's how this happened in the gas business some guy came to me at a very small gasoline operation and he said you know i have a way to defraud the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline was attractive to me because at that time i didn't like the government and you know my my targets back then were always bigger companies so uh what happened he had a couple of other wise guys that were kind of trying to extort him in his business and um i was able to solve that for him and then we went into business together and i'll tell you how it happened i i put somebody with him because i didn't know him that well and i said i'm going to put this fella with you we're going to see exactly what you got going on and we'll try to figure this out well the guy i put with him was a butcher he was my butcher big guy had a scar across the top of his head big vinny we call him so he's coming every saturday he would bring me to my house right so this saturday he pulls up and he's got this big box on his shoulder and i said what are you doing with all that meat are we having a party or something i don't know about it he says hey chief it ain't me i said what is it he said come on in the kitchen we go in the kitchen he puts the box down he opens it up 280 thousand dollars he said that's the first week's take in the gas business and long story short he really got my attention at that point i grew that 280 into uh at times almost eight million dollars a week you're making all the families money now they're all kind of happy about you but at the same time you know you're there as well what happened when all of a sudden you were growing a little too fast what kind of threats did you start seeing at that point were there some people that were power people saying wait a minute i don't like this guy having this much power yeah you know what happened i had a couple of things against me number one i was a younger guy and the older guys tend to resent you you know you're young you're doing all this you're making all this money and that comes with the territory you can't help that you try to deal with it as best you can you know you're not flaming that fire so to speak and i think it was news day publication out in long island had written a story that i was becoming so powerful i was gonna break away from the colombos and start my own family no truth to it whatsoever it was like a fairy tale fiction made up but it got into people's heads and so i mean i got questions you know i'm saying two billion dollars michael i said hey my answer was when they write about everybody else it's a lie when they're writing about me all of a sudden it's the truth they should come on man i'm giving you guys all this money you don't have to do anything i'm taking care of everything you know i put nobody in trouble nobody's on the line here if anybody goes down it's going to be me and my crew but i knew i had to watch myself you know look god doesn't tell you to be stupid [Music] you

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Length: 10min 44sec (644 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 01 2020