Michael Franzese

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

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And I'll never forget in the courtroom, Rudy comes up to me and my attorney, John Jacobs, at the time.

And he says, Franzese, if I convict you on this case, I'm giving you double what your father got.

You're going to get 100 years.

And, you know, that's the kind of time that we're giving those guys back then.

And I remember standing toe to toe with them and I say, Rudy, bring it on.

I beat you guys four times already.

Let's go for round five, which I always say is the dumbest thing to do.

You know, you don't give them any more.

Fortunately, after a several month trial in federal court in Manhattan, I was acquitted in that case.

And my co-defendants, some of them got convicted.

One of them got 30 years.

So I would have got a lot of time, no doubt.

Well, I'll tell you, you know, you got to give Rudy either the credit or the blame, depending upon what side you're on.

He was the one that really used the racketeering laws effectively because it had been on the books for quite some time.

They just didn't use it.

But he he made it a tremendous weapon.

And I say that Rico is the single most damaging tool that the government had to, you know, bring a lot of destruction to that life.

And, you know, Rudy and I, I wouldn't say we were friends, but we certainly healed things after 30 years.

He actually wrote the forward in my book, which he did a great job on.

Yeah, it really is.

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