Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Ex-Mafia Enforcer Breaks Silence: The Brutal Truth About the Mob
29 Jan 2025
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I got involved in a bank scam that was huge. Like, I only got maybe, say, a million, two million. The guys who got the money was the vice president of the bank. They got 80 million. So they busted the vice president, and they forgot about my million dollars. I see all the jurors getting in the limousine. The next morning, I went up to the prosecutor. Are you guys morons or what?
You got all the jurors riding in the limousine. You don't think John Gotti's going to reach one of those jurors? He's going to pay off. A juror, a bridegroom, and he's going to win this case. They say, Sal, you're looking at too much television. And that's exactly what happened. I predicted it. And of course, years later, Sammy the Bull told the story. That's exactly what they did.
They paid off a witness, 60 Gs, and Gotti became a superstar. One time I hijacked the truck and brought it to Jimmy. We went into the building. He said, I'll give you $72,000. And I go, wait a minute, let's think about this. Let me call Dom. I called Dom in the company. He came back down. In an hour, Jimmy said, okay, I'll give you $90,000. I go, we were hijacking so many trucks.
We would get information from the guys who worked at Kennedy Airport. We hijacked a truck full of Italian shoes. When I got it over to Jimmy Burke, I would call up. He said, come over quickly. You got a problem. Got the guy coming. The Jewish guys come to look at these beautiful Italian shoes. You got a problem. I go, what's the problem? You got 8,000 pairs of shoes, but they're all left.
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm going to be doing an interview with Salvatore Polissi and Adrian Martinez. It's going to be a super interesting interview. Adrian's going to be helping me out. He knows all about Sal, and so it's going to be about an hour interview, so I appreciate you guys watching. Check out the interview. So where were you born? Was this in New York, New Jersey?
Brooklyn, New York. And I had an Italian family. I had an uncle that was deeply entrenched in the mob. Actually, my uncle and I think the guy that was my father, because I'm not sure. My uncle might have been my father. My father might not have been my father.
But in the late 20s, 29, 30, like a couple of years before, you know, Prohibition ended, they were driving a horse and wagon from Long Island, bringing bulls up to New York City. So they were 20, 21 years old, involved in crime. And they knew all these criminals. So my uncle Tony stayed with crime his whole life because he was a gambler.
He was a swashbuckling, you know, high energy guy who drove fancy cars, pinky diamond rings, beautiful women. And eventually in the 60s, he got involved with a guy named Sonny Franzese. A lot of people knew who he was.
That's Michael Francis is right.
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