Brian David Suder

And he's allowed me to share this.

And I'm still good friends with him today.

The Persian Mafia was in a very incredible group.

They were based out of D.C.

He was originally from Baltimore.

That's how I knew him.

And he was supplying the entire club scene in D.C.

So many members of the Persian community at that point were converting their restaurants into clubs and buying up clubs.

They're very entrepreneurial.

They're very good businessmen, businesswomen, just business in general they're incredible at.

So the supply they were able to do, and there's a lot of local colleges there, like University of Maryland's next door, et cetera.

We were able to do a huge amount.

And we worked together collectively.

So when Scotty or Shariar was out, I would supply him.

When I'm out, he would supply me.

And then later on, I ended up mentoring a Russian I saw a lot.

of uh you know i just saw a lot a lot in this guy and that was part of the part of my process was i was always willing to kind of take golden nuggets from different people and implement it from there and then i would also take my time to take on people i felt would be good with us as well yeah and that's the interesting thing about your stories you worked with all different ethnicities that didn't seem like you cared

no it didn't i mean it was just being my i mean with tommy at one point i was basically his underboss and constant consigliere it was how they call in the mafia world because i'm working on his behalf he had never had a guy like me work with him and and and a lot of my things that my principles he liked like one of my principles i put in here is obviously is never take a handout right and he was floored by that so like if you're in like a mafia situation you're always offered free stuff yeah

But then if you feel kind of binded by that, you're going to take advantage of that at a later point.

Like you owe them.