"He Was The Greatest Mobster Of All Time"- Mafia Hitman Reveals Why Michael Franzese Was The G.O.A.T
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- While Joe Barone was cooperating with FBI and working as an informant feeding them information on the NYC mafia, the order came in for the hit on a high ranking member of one of the families. Joe told his FBI handlers about the plot and that he was asked to be involved... and they gave him the OKAY! What happened next changed the course of history and the lives of everyone involved.
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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".
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? :)
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 !
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
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.
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.
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.
Michael Franzese was known for passing gas straight through.
This guys an awesome storyteller.
Is Johnny rocking a piece up there?
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
Awesome interview…
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
Mikey the tooth 🦷 !
Mikey root canal ...
Mikey brights ! 🌞
Dom wants to brush thoes pearls .. 🪥 💰
There are no armor piercing handguns rounds. Of the few that pierce soft armor: 22mag, 4.6mm, 5.7mm, 500S&W and 460 Casull. Definitely no .45 ACP.
Calls the whole thing into question and he's a snitch. Forget about giving excuses. Snitching breaks Omerta.
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.
They're wild animals. People should listen to this statement before they decide to join those crazy organizations.
Rules ,it's about rules people don't understand this!!!
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.
Hardly anyone can pronounce Franzese properly, and even less people understand the gas scam. You all may have heard about this popular website called RUclips. MF has a channel on RUclips with hundreds of videos. And it just so happens that in every single video he says his name. He also has several videos and has done countless interviews about the gas tax scam. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to pronounce his name incorrectly or not understand the gas tax scam.
The gad eholesale purchases were legit..... didn't pay taxes on the sale at gas stations....
They had 350 stations, a bunch of wholesale licenses....😊
Dude is not even listening
If he’d let people talk and not interrupt with so many questions, these stories might make more sense.
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This guy use to sing in mcc
This fool keeps interrupting the guest
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For those who know.
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LOL not only would the FBI never sanction a murder they would be legally obligated to inform the victim that his life is in danger
Incorrect
@@franksindoneii5410 In the Fictional world of The Sopranos Tony is warned that his life is in danger which the writers lifted from a real life situation when The FBI learned a plot to kill John Gotti they informed him. same with Henry Hill and some other gangsters.
Hahaha look Greg Scarpa the grim reaper up
@@robkegee5824 LOL I figured someone was going to bring up Greg Scarpa. Go read up on Agent Lindley DeVeechio. Completely different situation. Jesus Christ if you believe the FBI would condone murder or anything this guy says than I have a bridge to sell you. I don't think the guy was paying attention to what he was saying as others have stated.
Incorrect fbi has had informants kill people in the 80’s and 90’s and they knew about it lol
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
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
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
Johnny buddy wtf is that hair piece? It looks ridiculous
it's a hat
@@richarddenny5340Johny wants to be a rockabilly star.
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
What’s up with this hair all of a sudden?!! 😂 WTF?!
Michael Franzese was a Columbo, not a Bonnano.
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.
Golly. This kid with the college look is hard taken seriously
Johnny would get wacked just for that hairpiece 😂
Can't unsee the piece now
Someone should introduce him to a hat
😂
Johnny the Rug
@@Craggles1 hahah nice
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.
Yeah, he's better than Carlo Gambino, Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Frank Costello, and Vincent Gigante.
Give me a break. Saying that you think Franzese is the GOAT just makes you sound ignorant.
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
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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.
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 RUclips gimmick anymore.
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🤦♂️
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@@xavierjames8085I never heard about sonny killing his brother either. I did not know about Greg. Was it his older brother?
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 .
Nice video...but you just come tru as not knowledgeable in this field. Sorry. Try sports maybe...
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.
As an aside, I loved what the media was calling him back then: The Yuppie Don...LMAO
"Just for sleeping with a guys wife". man!..how far has virtue fallen.
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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Hair looking great JM
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
Michael Franzese was not the Goat, and not the Goat of racketeering. A Boss is a goat of racketeering, and in that case, Chin is probably the GOAT.
he looks like Jeff Bezos with hair
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
lol this guy cry’s Everytime he talks about his dad lol he’s a tuff guy
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
My guy got a toupee
The Bonannos are probably the most talked about family.
Gambinos
God never lets people out of hell
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.
The Tate brothers were detained yesterday in Romania for sex trafficking MINORS. Why does Franzese support them?>. What business dealings does he have with them? When he visted the in Romania - about which he posted - did Franzese have relations with sex trafficked girls at the Tate brothers' compund?
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
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 😂😂😂
One thing I learned from watching all the videos. Dnt do any crime lol These guys these days will tell on their own mother the way they be talking lol
This interview is a joke! 2%truth and that's being generous
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.
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.
The criminal knowledge of the host is nonexistent and at times massively cringey!
What would be the point if it’s already dead? Kinda seems like a waste of time doesn’t it?
Shot for sleeping with a colleague/mates girlfriend - tell that to the ex England footballer John Terry 😂😂!!
Didn't Mikey the Nose kill his wife? I thought Joe Massino was wired and got Vincent Basciano to talk about all of this
Why say " nice" when the man says he has more devastating ammunition?
It certainly isn't " nice"
He knew what he was talking about until he opened his mouth about Ukraine keep the conversation to your expertise lol
A lot of these podcast people are not professional and should not be doing interviews
Good video keep op the good work❤
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
Nice vid... informative
LOL exactly !!!
all this bloke keeps saying is how he nearly done this or nearly done that but all he did was nothing
And who told you Sonny killed his own brother? Which brother??
Michael is top 5 but the Greatest ever was “Lucky”
He loves spilling the beans for sure 🤣
Why is this hitman, i.e. murderer, free on the streets??!!
if he,d of done that they would have killed this guy straight away!
A whole 20 minutes before you get to the title subject.
I think that Micheal Franzese is a great man.
Joe “ the groundhog” Barone. Scared of his own shadow.
Literally nothing to do with MF for 20 minutes
This interviewer is the worst interviewer. Lol.
This guys crazy like u think u were gonna whack Mikey nose and then get straightened out and hope nobody found out about u talking to the FBI 😂😂😂 the feds woulda outted u are u crazy?? Man this guy was really all over the place literally
He owned Barone Sanitation!
You don’t become a captain in the Colombo family if you’ve never clipped anybody
Not true. There are guys that haven't done any work other than financially kick up
@@TPM1424in that era. In the Persico era. C’mon. I’m not positive Michael Franzese ever pulled a trigger, but I’d be willing to bet at the very least he participated, ordered or was involved in a murder at some point.
If you were making 8mn a week you didn't need to clip anyone to become caporegime.
That's what I always thought
@markbrooker3729 The vast majority of the guys do commit a murder. On the other hand there are people who are Mega earners or someone's son who gets a pass like Franzese, Tom Gambino, etc.
Most have said even Gotti Sr has never committed a murder himself, but planned hits though!
My understanding, based on mob content and history, everything about the gas was legit except for not paying the tax. He purchased gas legitimately and leased tankers legitimately. He used mob associates to deliver the gas in the middle of the night. And never paid the taxes...smart mo fo.
Ace was the shooter,Mikey was in East Harlem purple gang, he should've been taken out for that stuff w meldish
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about and I’m surprised Jonny isn’t catching it. Dom was on your show before and told you that he was the one arrested for killing Randy right before he was about to kill Mike the nose.