Michael Franzese

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Mafia Sunday, with Michael Franzese and Sammy "The Bull" Gravano - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

And I had four other state of New York cases.

So from the time I was 20 years old, I was getting arrested, getting indicted, fighting the law.

It was just a lifelong battle for me.

Well, you know, I, um, I was fortunate, I think, in that I understood how to use that life to benefit me in business.

And, um, you know, I went on to make a very significant amount of money, both legally and illegally.

You know, I had two automobile dealerships, legitimate.

I had a Mazda and a Chevrolet agency.

I had a leasing company.

Uh, I had a couple of restaurants that I was involved in.

I had a film production company at one point in time that, um,

Actually, we made about 30 films at the time and distributed them throughout the world.

So I had a lot of legitimate things going on.

But the biggest enterprise or scam, whatever you want to call it, that I got involved in was the wholesale gasoline business.

And in a nutshell, I devised a scheme along with a partner to defraud the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.

And it was an operation we ran for about eight years.

I had the Russian mob guys from Brighton Beach involved with me.

I had about 350 gas stations I either owned or operated at that time.

And I had 18 companies that were licensed to collect the tax on every gallon of gasoline.

Heart of our operation, we're selling a half a billion gallons of gas a month and we're taking down 20, 30, 40 cents a gallon, whatever the mark would bear at that time.

So we're bringing in several million dollars a week.

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