Michael Franzese

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1,097 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

Michael Franzese’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Yeah, I want to see him.

I was really surprised because, you know, I mean, I knew that crew very well.

I knew Henry very well.

I knew Jimmy Burke and Pauly Barrio.

you know, was a dear friend of mine and the family's.

But I was surprised because that was a different family.

And Nick Pelleggi, who was the writer, after I saw that, I called Nick up and I said, Nick, why'd you throw me in there?

He said, oh, Michael, you had name value and all that.

And, you know, you knew all those guys.

I said, yeah, but you could have at least got them to say my name correctly, you know.

So he left.

Yeah, exactly.

I was surprised.

I didn't expect to see that.

Well, yeah, he indicted me on a major racketeering case.

I was a lead defendant and I had 15 co-defendants.

And it was a big, you know, Shylocking case, you know, money extortion case, allegedly.

And I was supposed to have financed a leasing company that probably had 1,500 legitimate loans on the street and about 30 Shylock loans.

And I was the one that allegedly put up the money for that, which wasn't true.

But anyway, so I get indicted.

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