Michael Franzese

Trust me.

You know, no other organization has thrived like we had during that.

And I'm not bragging.

I'm not glorifying.

I'm just telling the truth, you know, under some very serious conditions.

And the ones that succeeded, they did it because of their brains and their determination.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's a great question, by the way.

You know, normally if I'm surrounded by 20 law enforcement agents, I'm under arrest.

So it was nice to be able to sit and debate with them.

You know, it was a good experience.

I grew quite frustrated at times.

He claims that agents suborn perjury routinely.

In my 23 years, I never saw any indication of that.

You know, for him to sit there and say that the FBI today, and that there isn't corruption among the FBI, I think that was poor on his part.

The culture of the organization

is very much rule-oriented, very much get approval and document whatever you do.

He may be an agent with ethics and integrity, but he has to know that a lot of people in his department now, especially over the last four years, didn't act that way.