Michael Franzese

You guys provide those for us.

You know, an honest man is not going to come and say, hey, I'm a part of this family and we're doing wrong and I want to come forth.

We're dealing with people who either have been shunned or voted out of the family or however that works, or they've been, they feel like they deserve their promotion.

So we understand the intention that's coming in.

However, the information they're providing, we have to take into account and then

a lot of times that information checks out and some things don't.

And when they don't, we have a system in place, i.e.

courts and laws and policies and regulations that kind of weeds that stuff out, right?

If I take a incomplete and lazy case to court,

it may get thrown out.

That not only puts a stain on me, that puts a stain on my department and everybody in this room who's taken an oath to protect and to serve.

Do you deal with organized crime?

But that being said, in my experience, it's worked out.

All right, well, let me tell you this.

You know, you just laid out the way it's supposed to be.

You go back to New York and you deal with the feds and organized crime, you're in a whole different world.

These paid informants don't come to you.

Normally they get in trouble and they get put in a room and they say you're facing life in prison on a racketeering act or you want to sit down and talk with us, we'll give you money, we'll put you in the witness protection program, help us out.

See what happened in my life?

I'll tell you very simple.