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October 29 Former Mob Boss Reviews ‘The Westies’ — I Knew Jimmy Coonan
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People, a lot of you asked me to review The Westies, the new MGM+ show about the Irish crew out of Hell’s Kitchen. So I watched the first episode — and before I tell you what I think of the show, let me tell you something straight. I knew the Westies. I did business with some of them. Jimmy Coonan did time with my father and I met him many times in the visiting room. He was a stand-up guy. Wild — but stand-up.
The show gets the atmosphere right. The violence is brutal, and it should be, because that’s how it was. The acting is the strongest part. But there’s a myth I want to kill: the Gambinos weren’t scared of the Westies. We could have wiped them out. The Westies worked for us. And I’ll tell you what I believe really happened to Mickey Spillane, how the Javits Center put real money on the table, and why there was never an Irish Commission — the same reason I gave you last week.
And one more thing. About ten years ago, a man who did time with Jimmy Coonan came to me before he died, with a message from Jimmy about a major case that’s never been solved. I put him on tape. I’ve sat on it for a decade. I might finally tell that story.
If you watched The Westies — did they get the Irish-Italian relationship right? What did they miss? Text me. And if there’s a show you want me to review next, tell me.
#TheWesties #IrishMob #Mafia #MichaelFranzese #Review00:00 The Westies Weren't Big. They Were Violent.
00:43 Welcome — You Asked Me to Review This One
01:25 I Knew the Westies. I Did Business With Them.
01:45 The Tape I've Sat On for 10 Years
04:52 The Show Is Great — Here's Why
10:39 The Man Who Ran Hell's Kitchen
11:36 Nobody Called Themselves "The Westies"
12:08 Mickey Spillane, Roy DeMeo & the Favor
12:58 They Did Contract Work for Us
13:32 The Javits Center — Where the Real Money Was
13:51 Why Every Developer Had to Deal With Us
21:31 Why There Was Never an Irish Commission
21:45 The Balancing Act — Keep the Italians Happy
22:40 Featherstone Flipped. Coonan Got 75 Years.
22:54 I Walked Away. Most of Them Didn't.
23:36 The Acting Is the Strongest Part
24:04 My Verdict — Worth Your Time
24:22 Want the Real Story? Read the Book.
25:24 If I Reveal What I Know — You'll Be Shocked
26:08 Look Where This Life Ends Up
27:14 "You Betrayed Your Oath" — My Answer
31:29 Text Me — What Did the Show Get Wrong?
32:44 God Bless — See You Next Time
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October 27 Polygraph Expert EXPOSES Who’s Afraid of the Lie Detector — Congress, Cops & Cheaters
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People, I asked David Goldberg one question before we sat down: can you beat a lie detector? He’s run over 20,000 of them. He said no. And then he offered to prove it on me. I’m thinking about it.
I took a polygraph years ago, about my father’s case. I passed — because I was telling the truth. So I’ve never understood why the courts call it “pseudoscience” and won’t let a jury see it. In this one, David tells me exactly who benefits from keeping it out, and it’s not the innocent.
We get into how a passed test forces prosecutors to deal, the story of me walking into Giuliani’s prosecutors before I was even indicted and answering every question — and what the jury said about it after they acquitted me — the “you did five, tell me about the sixth” interrogation method, why infidelity is now the #1 reason people take the test, what applicants confess when they’re strapped in for a police or fire department job, the innocent people David’s gotten out of prison, and the question we both asked: what would happen if every member of Congress had to take one before they were sworn in?
His answer: maybe five seats would be filled.
#LieDetector #Polygraph #MichaelFranzese #Congress #TrueCrime00:00:00 Why Won't the Courts Allow a Lie Detector?
00:01:13 Greetings From Palm Beach
00:02:08 I Took a Polygraph About My Father's Case — And Passed
00:05:10 "Pseudoscience" — Why the Courts Keep It Out
00:08:11 Court-Certified — When a Judge Will Let It In
00:12:57 The Day Giuliani Had Me Arrested
00:14:09 I Answered Every Question Before I Was Indicted — The Jury Noticed
00:18:27 A 30-Page Report Nobody Can Ignore
00:19:24 How a Passed Test Forces the Prosecutor's Hand
00:22:43 Christa Pike — Why I'm Against the Death Penalty
00:25:20 20,000 Tests. Never Failed Someone Who Didn't Deserve It.
00:27:46 Strapped In With a Stranger — What's at Stake
00:33:43 "You Did Five. Tell Me About the Sixth."
00:36:00 What You Say in That Room Stays in That Room
00:38:24 Cops Rush to Judgment — Why He Reads the Indictment First
00:41:40 The Innocent People He's Gotten Out of Prison
00:43:09 Death Row Without Justice — For Anyone
00:49:14 The #1 Reason People Take the Test: Infidelity
00:50:41 "I Think My Spouse Is Cheating" — What He Finds
00:52:14 The Dream Job — What Cops and Firefighters Confess
01:00:16 Put Every Member of Congress on the Box
01:03:43 They're in Every Party — I Could Pick Them Out
01:05:10 9/11 — His Proudest Moment in Law Enforcement
01:08:09 I Applaud What You Do
01:11:05 God Bless — See You Next Time
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October 23 Former Mob Boss Ranks The Greatest Mob Songs Of All Time
Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin. Tony Bennett. Everybody thinks they know what the mob listened to because they saw Goodfellas. People, I didn’t watch the life in a movie theater. I lived it. I sat in those clubs. I was at those weddings. I stood in line at the Copa with my father. And some of the men who sang these songs were around our world — everybody knew it.
So today I’m doing something I’ve never done: 18 songs, four tiers, S down to C. I’m not ranking who sang it best. I’m ranking how fast it puts me back at that table. Some of these put me right back in the room. Some of them — and you’re not going to like this — Hollywood snuck onto the playlist.
Sinatra, Dino, Darin, Prima, the Four Seasons, the Stones, Clapton — and the one song the whole country sang along to without noticing it’s about a gangster.
And stick around to the end, because I go off the list and tell you about a song that had nothing to do with the mob — the one I heard in a prison cell that told me I was going home.
Tell me what I got wrong. Tell me what I left off. I read them.
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0:00 What the Mob Really Listened To
1:50 How the Tier Rankings Work
2:50 Growing Up at the Copacabana
5:35 Frank Sinatra: My Way
8:24 Luck Be a Lady & Mob-Era Vegas
9:11 That’s Life
9:48 Summer Wind & Meeting My Wife
10:45 Dean Martin: Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
11:34 That’s Amore
12:11 Volare
13:27 Tony Bennett: Rags to Riches
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16:00 Bobby Darin: Beyond the Sea
17:35 Mack the Knife
17:56 Louis Prima: Just a Gigolo
19:22 Frankie Valli & My Courtroom Story
20:53 Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
21:47 Walk Like a Man
22:26 In the Still of the Night
23:15 Then He Kissed Me
24:19 A Sunday Kind of Love
24:50 The Godfather Theme: Speak Softly, Love
25:57 The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
27:11 Layla & the Goodfellas Aftermath
28:13 Final Rankings & a Sinatra Story
34:27 How Music Got Me Through Prison
36:30 Closing Thoughts
#Mafia #Sinatra #DeanMartin #MobSongs #MichaelFranzese #TierList
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October 21 Face to Face With the Only Prosecutor Who Ever Beat Me
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A lot of prosecutors came after me. Giuliani put me on trial and lost. This man is the only one who ever got me. Ed McDonald ran the federal strike force in Brooklyn — and when I took that plea, it was his case I was pleading to. Ten years. He’ll tell you what he told his team at the time: “Ten years will keep him on ice.”
And if his name sounds familiar — he’s the prosecutor in Goodfellas. He played himself. He’s the man who flipped Henry Hill, made the Lufthansa case, and went after Jimmy Burke with a witness nobody was supposed to believe.
We get into all of it: why I took the plea and the misstep Giuliani made that pushed me there, what the agents told me on the plane, my father’s hatred for him, how he turned Henry Hill, what it was like watching Goodfellas with the real Henry, and the Gotti investigation he ran before anyone had the case.
Forty years ago, this man and I were on opposite sides of a courtroom. Today we’re on the same side of a table. I never thought I’d say that.
Face to Face With the Prosecutor Who Put Me Away | The Real ‘Goodfellas’ Prosecutor
#MichaelFranzese #Goodfellas #HenryHill #EdMcDonald #RICO
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1 hr 50 min
October 15 A Lemmon and a Coppola Are in a New Mob Movie. Former Mob Boss Sits Down With ‘Redemption’ Cast
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People, my father asked me a question once in a prison visiting room. “Son, if you ever had to kill anybody — could you do it?” I’ll tell you what I said. And I’ll tell you why a new mob movie called Redemption made me think about it again.I sat down with the writer and director, Asif, and his cast. Jon Lemmon — Jack Lemmon’s grandson — plays the lead: a good kid who gets pulled into the life to help his father and ends up in deeper than he ever meant to. Weston Coppola — Francis Ford Coppola’s great-nephew — plays Jackson, the guy who brings him in. Two Hollywood names in one mob picture. The movie also has Robert Davi, Frank Stallone, and Jon Lovitz in a role he told the director he’s never played before. The story isn’t mine — but it’s close enough that I had some things to say.We get into why good people do bad things, what it actually costs to walk away from that life, the night I told my father I was quitting school to help him, and why I respect a film that shows the human side of the men I knew.The movie’s coming out in the next couple of months. I’ll tell you when.
There’s a New Mob Movie — And a Coppola’s in It. Former Mob Boss Sits Down With ‘Redemption’ Cast
00:00 "Son, If You Had to Kill Somebody — Could You?"00:41 Welcome — A Mob Movie Premiere in Vegas03:17 How Hard It Is to Get a Movie Made05:31 Meet the Cast — A Coppola at My Table06:32 From Cleveland to Hollywood — The Director's Story07:23 Why Mob Movies Never Die09:57 Thank You for Showing the Good Side of That Life10:23 Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?13:16 The Day I Told My Father I Was Quitting School13:42 The Question My Father Asked Me14:02 When Violence Feels Justified18:28 The Real Informant Behind the Film20:53 1980s Cleveland — The World of the Movie22:36 Walking Away Feels Like Betraying Your People23:48 The Milano Family and the Cleveland Mob26:35 I Knew Joe Colombo — And I Loved "The Offer"29:18 My Father Lived to 10329:54 How Weston Got the Call35:25 Releasing a Film the Old-School Way37:24 The World Premiere in Las Vegas38:31 Written With This Cast in Mind39:03 Frank Stallone's Character Was Based on a Real Guy42:14 A Thousand People at the Premiere — What I Saw43:35 God Bless — See You Next Time
#Redemption #MobMovie #Coppola #FrankStallone #MichaelFranzese
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October 10 The Biggest Legal Scam in America (Ex-Mafia Boss Reacts)
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Congress makes $174,000 a year, so how do so many of them leave Washington worth millions?
I sat down with Ross Givens, a stock trading educator who has spent years tracking the trades of politicians and corporate insiders. Ross breaks down how the STOCK Act turned into a loophole: lawmakers and executives have to report their trades, and once they file that form, they’re free to keep trading. Here’s the part most people don’t know. Those reports are public, so anybody can see what they’re buying.
My friends, I went to prison for tax fraud. What these people are doing makes what we did look like peanuts, and nobody is ever held accountable. I’ve said it for years and I wrote a whole book about it, Mafia Democracy: our government operates just like the mob. The difference is, we never took an oath to serve the people.
In this conversation we get into:
- What insider trading really is, and why Martha Stewart didn’t go to prison for it
- How the STOCK Act lets Congress and CEOs trade on information you and I don’t have
- Real examples of suspiciously well-timed trades by members of Congress
- Why banning congressional stock trading is all a show
- Nancy Pelosi, and why I say she’d be a mobster if she were a guy
- Why Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history
- How the government took over the rackets we went to jail for
- How the average person can legally follow the insiders’ money
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October 08 Former Mob Boss: She Deserves to Die. I’m Still Against Executing Her.
Christa Pike was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. They strapped her to the gurney, started the execution — and she didn’t die. As of today, she’s alive, in a hospital, and talking.
People, I read what she did. The torture of a 19-year-old girl. The skull fragment she kept. I’m not going to sugarcoat it — it’s demonic, and yes, she deserves to die. Even I’ll say that.
But here’s where I’m going to lose some of you: the state still shouldn’t execute her. Not because of her. Because of the 203 people who’ve been freed from death row since 1973 — 145 of them because a prosecutor or a cop lied, framed them, or hid evidence. The death penalty isn’t for one person. It’s for everybody. And a civilized country cannot execute innocent people. We’re not Iran. We’re not China.
I did eight years. I spent my first night in solitary thinking my life was over. Life without parole in a six-by-eight cell is not mercy, people. It’s severe punishment — and nobody ever gets exonerated from a grave.
I also get into O.J., prosecutors who never pay for framing people, and what I think happens to Christa Pike now.
Tell me where you stand. Keep it intelligent — we’re trying to have a real conversation here.
00:00 Christa Pike Survived Her Own Execution
00:22 Welcome — Shot Up With Phenobarbital and She Didn’t Die
01:03 Does This Woman Deserve to Die?
01:44 Satanic Murder Scene Still Haunts Police 31 Years Later
02:35 How They Lured Colleen Slemmer to Her Death
03:31 She Kept a Piece of Her Skull as a Trophy
04:41 Murder Is Murder. Torture Is Demonic.
05:29 Text Me — Should Christa Pike Die?
06:23 The Botched Execution — Where Things Stand Now
07:09 Yes, She Deserves to Die. No, the State Shouldn’t Execute Her.
07:38 The Death Penalty Isn’t for One Person. It’s for the Masses.
08:38 203 People Freed From Death Row Since 1973
09:26 My Father Was Framed — 50 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
10:33 Execute an Innocent Person and There’s No Appeal
11:59 What If They Confess to the Crime?
13:26 The Same Stance I Took With OJ Simpson
14:34 Prove It Beyond a Reasonable Doubt or Set Them Free
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16:40 You Pay for It in This Life or the Next
17:20 Official Misconduct in 71% of Death Row Exonerations
18:21 What If It Were Your Family Member on Death Row?
19:31 Life Without Parole Is Not a Walk in the Park
20:01 My First Night in Solitary — I Thought My Life Was Over
20:56 Prosecutors Who Frame People Never Pay for It
21:38 They Have All the Money, Time and Power
23:22 DNA, Perjury and Doctored Forensics
24:59 If It Were My Daughter...
25:24 Redemption Doesn’t Erase Accountability
27:09 Will Tennessee Try to Execute Her Again?
27:53 My Position — End the Death Penalty
28:48 Thank You for Watching the Family Sit-Downs
31:12 My Brother John and I Are Building an Addiction Recovery Program
31:48 Big Things Coming This Holiday Season
32:18 Be Safe — A 7-Year-Old Girl Killed in Chicago
32:47 Ladies, Walk Next to Your Husband
33:15 Be Healthy — Why I Only Promote What I Believe In
33:51 God Bless America
#ChristaPike #DeathPenalty #MichaelFranzese #TrueCrime #Tennessee
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October 06 My Daughter Told Me the TRUTH About Growing Up With a Mobster Dad
My oldest daughter Miq sat down with her Uncle John a few weeks ago. She hadn’t seen him in years. Now he texts her five times a day. So I figured it was my turn to sit across from her.
I was in and out of prison until she was nine years old. I always thought I was there for my kids, even from inside. Miq told me the truth — how growing up with a father who kept disappearing affected her relationships, her trust, and what she thought a good marriage was supposed to look like. She didn’t even realize it until her late twenties.
We get into all of it: 41 years with her mother, and the time she thought we might not make it. Why she wishes she’d seen her mom be more affectionate. Her own rough first year of marriage, and why she refuses to be blindsided the way her mother was. Traditional roles — and yes, I said what I said.
And I admit something on camera I’ve never really talked about: I wasn’t a good father to my two daughters from my first marriage. That’s on me. No excuses. I’m praying that changes.
Our family has been offered reality shows more than once. We always said no. This is as real as it gets.
My Daughter Told Me the TRUTH About Growing Up With a Mobster Dad
0:00 Introduction
2:43 My Daughter, Miquelle
6:02 What Miq Learned Sitting Down with My Brother John
8:52 On Trial with Giuliani When Her Mom Got Pregnant
11:24 Indicted Again a Month After She Was Born
14:01 How My Prison Years Affected My Daughter
17:54 Why Kids Need a Mother AND a Father
20:30 Becoming a Father Figure to My Sons-in-Law
23:32 “Anybody I Marry Has to Have a Misdemeanor”
26:47 What 41 Years of Marriage Taught My Daughter
31:01 Why My Wife and I Argue (Two Glasses of Wine)
32:41 The Rough Patch in Our Marriage
34:36 Marriage Is Tough: Money and Trust
35:45 My Regrets with My Daughters from My First Marriage
46:26 Don’t Keep Your Wife in the Dark About Money
49:37 Men and Women Are Equal but Have Different Roles
53:13 Men, Do Your Job: Provide and Protect
56:30 Praying for a New Grandchild
58:38 Why My Family Turned Down a Reality Show
60:30 You Asked Me to Call You “Friends”
62:36 Final Thoughts: Be Safe, Be Healthy
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1 hr 8 min
October 01 Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 3)
People, this is it — the final sit-down with my brother John. Three weeks ago we went back to the house we grew up in. Last week he told you why he wore the wire. This week we go to the years in between: when my brother was in the life too, during the war, and our father was doing everything he could to get him made.John was five years sober when he went to see dad. Dad told him, “Son, I’m proud of you.” Took two steps. Then: “It’s a shame you ruined your whole life, though.” That’s our father. And if you knew him, you know he meant both.We get into the night they called John down to the club during the war — no gun, nobody there, and a captain telling him “your father can’t help you anymore.” What dad said from prison when John asked him what to do. The rumor our mother started in a visiting room that almost got our father hurt. The meeting at a lawyer’s office where dad tried to bring John in — and why it never happened. Chicky, Louie, Frankie, and some stories about dad that still make us laugh.And my brother says something in here I want you to hear: 24 years, and he hasn’t raised his hands or wished harm on a single person.I couldn’t sit down with my father anymore. So I sat down with his other son. If you’ve watched all three, thank you — this one was for us.Part 1 and Part 2 are linked below if you’re just finding this.#MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #ColomboFamily #MobFamily
Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 3)
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1 hr 23 min
September 29 Why the Irish Mob Died and the Mafia Didn’t
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People, let me set this straight right now. The first real organized crime gangs in New York weren’t Italian. They were IRISH — decades before my people ever got off the boat. The Forty Thieves, the Dead Rabbits, the Gophers, the Hudson Dusters. They owned the docks, the unions, and City Hall. So here’s my question: if the Irish were first, why is there no Irish Commission? Why was there no Irish Luciano?
I knew these guys. I did business with the Westies. Jimmy Coonan was a stand-up guy — and I know more about Jimmy than most people do. Some of that I’ll get to. And I’ll correct a few things the legend gets wrong: the Gambinos didn’t partner with the Westies out of fear, and Fat Tony wasn’t the real power behind that deal.
We go through all of it — Hell’s Kitchen, Whitey Bulger and the biggest law enforcement scandal in mob history, Danny Greene in Cleveland — and then I give you my verdict. Because the answer to who won isn’t about who was tougher. A feared crew dies with its leader. An organization replaces him by Tuesday. That’s the whole difference.
#IrishMob #Westies #Mafia #WhiteyBulger #MichaelFranzese #OrganizedCrime
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00:00 The Irish Were First. So Where's the Irish Commission?00:35 Welcome — And a Quick Word on the Diddy Verdict01:33 Were the Westies Really an Organization?02:20 Why There Was Never an Irish Luciano03:38 What I Know About Jimmy Coonan04:05 The Forty Thieves — New York's First Gang Was Irish04:42 Dead Rabbits, Whyos, Gophers — They Owned the Street and City Hall05:44 The Westies — Hell's Kitchen, Coonan & Featherstone06:20 We Didn't Partner With Them Out of Fear06:56 Fat Tony Wasn't the Real Power. The Chin Was.08:15 A Feared Crew Dies With Its Leader08:47 What Made the Italians Different — The System10:14 Jimmy Got 75 Years. The Westies Went With Him.13:22 Whitey Bulger — Boss and FBI Informant15:00 Danny Greene and the Cleveland War16:13 My Verdict — Hierarchy Beats the Neighborhood Crew17:39 Why the Family Survives the Boss18:48 Could a Non-Italian Ever Be Fully Inside?20:28 Did We Use the Irish for Work We Wanted Distance From?21:51 Were the Westies Really Independent?23:14 They Had Killers and City Hall. We Built a System.23:53 Text Me — Who Was More Powerful?24:33 A Glass of Wine and a Slice25:56 A Warning for the Ladies — Please Be Safe29:42 Franzese Fam, Lives & Ministry Monday31:25 I'm Not Going to Hell for Anybody
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From a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family to a man transformed by faith, Michael Franzese shares his extraordinary journey like no one else can. In Sit Downs with Michael Franzese,…