Chapter 1: What are the implications of undercover sting operations?
Are you familiar with an FBI agent named Lynn DiVecchio? No. Okay, he was indicted for murder, for murders. I think more of your guys than my guys have been indicted for murder. Absolutely, because we were criminals, but the FBI is supposed to be fining upstanding citizens that took an oath to protect people. Your organization, you guys violated your oath or you wouldn't be here.
We were criminals. We were criminals. You can't compare us to the FBI. If you compare us to the FBI, we're in a lot of trouble.
From Jubilee Media, this is The Surrounded Podcast, where one brave soul faces a room full of disagreeers. In the center of the circle today is the former crime boss, Michael Francisi. And he will be facing 20 cops. Michael will debate them one-on-one until they are voted out by their peers and replaced by someone new. Let's get into it.
Hi, I'm Michael Francisi. I'm a former cop regime in the Colombo family in New York, one of the five New York mafia families. And today I'm surrounded by 20 cops. All right, my first surrounded claim is undercover sting operations often manufacture crime.
So you believe that undercover operations create crime?
Absolutely.
Let's talk about the word entrapment. So entrapment means that law enforcement officers are inducing a reasonable person who is not predisposed to a crime to commit a crime.
Well, what do you mean a reasonable person? In my experience, the undercover operations were either an undercover law enforcement person or somebody, a confidential informant that was put into that situation. That's not a fine upstanding person normally. The undercover agent? Absolutely.
OK.
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Chapter 2: How does Michael Franzese define entrapment?
You could be like, you know what? I don't want to do this robbery tonight. I don't want to put something, I don't want to put an amount of money on someone's head. I can just walk away.
Absolutely. And if you do, you're not entrapped. But if you do it, then you are entrapped. And that's what the confidential informant is supposed to do, entrap you.
I understand what you're saying, but you just made my argument. So if you could walk away from that, and if you walk away from that, it's not entrapment. You're not getting involved in the criminal activity where if you stay involved in it, you were predisposed to move forward with that crime regardless. So it's not entrapment either.
Well, I disagree with that. I think you said it would have never happened if you didn't put, if law enforcement didn't put their CI in there to try to entrap that guy, then there would have been no crime.
But if the person they were trying to entrap, let's say it's you, if you were going in with a clean conscience, not wanting to commit crime at all, then it wouldn't matter who they put in there.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because you're still creating the crime. Law enforcement is creating the crime through their confidential informant because it would have never happened if that confidential informant, if he never met him, then there would be no crime.
So the confidential informant comes in saying, I want to do X, Y, Z crime. You can still walk away.
You can, and then there's no entrapment. But there wouldn't have been anything at all if your guy didn't come in. He wouldn't have to refuse anything, because there wouldn't have been anything to refuse.
So you're saying you would never have committed a crime, no matter what it was, if there wasn't a confidential informant that came in?
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Chapter 3: What examples illustrate the manufacturing of crime?
That's what they get paid for. They have plenty of time, and they put a lot of effort into it, and they put a lot of guys. They destroyed my former life. They have all the time in the world when they want to. I'm not saying you do or anybody else in this room. I'm telling you my experience. And let me tell you something. I had a lot more respect at that time for police They were doing their job.
I understand that. People say to me, Michael, now, you've got to hate the police. I said, no, I don't hate the police. I have a wife. I have five daughters. I have grandkids. When they walk down the street, I want the police to protect them. I support the police. But I don't support the underhanded stuff that was done and that continues to be done. I'm sorry.
I think the defund the police movement is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'm totally against that. but I'm totally against law enforcement using tactics and weapons to get people that they shouldn't be doing. They have to play by the rules, period, or we have anarchy.
You're right, and they do play by the rules. No, they don't. Because providing a criminal opportunity does not force someone to commit a crime. And if that person is getting lured into the crime because they don't have enough mental fortitude to say no to something, That's not law enforcement's fault.
You can't lock somebody up for their mentality.
But if they move forward with it.
They have to commit the crime.
And if the confidential informant gets them to move forward and commit the crime.
Well, did they manufacture that crime then? Yes or no?
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Chapter 4: How do law enforcement and criminals differ in their approach to crime?
Now we just have an inside guy to wire that up.
But you don't know that. You don't know that.
That's the point of the undercover sting. Exactly.
But you're manufacturing that particular crime.
You are creating that crime. So no one's going to tell the boss of the crime film to say what he's going to do?
You're not understanding. There still was no crime. You're creating a particular crime by bringing that confidential informant into him and giving him a situation, a criminal situation, that you're hoping he bites into. If there was no confidential informant, there's no crime. So you manufactured that situation.
He's not making him do anything. He could easily be like, we're not doing that to you.
He can. Right. He can't say no, but I'm going to say the same thing that I said to that young lady. He wouldn't have to say no if you didn't manufacture something for him to say no to.
He doesn't have to say yes. This is like, this is a circle.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Michael Franzese share about the police's approach to arrests?
You'll see a whole different atmosphere. And let me tell you something. I agree with you with the police. I agree. I am on the side of the police in that regard. But there are certain levels of law enforcement that go for the names and go for the promotion. There's no question about it. You can't disagree. It's happened.
You've been voted out by the majority. Please return to your seat.
Thank you. Oh, thank you. Yeah, thank you.
I'm not going to talk about Hillary Clinton and John Gotti, sir. Unfortunately for us, I do think that your arrest record is a direct reflection of your work ethic. I think that you can take one guy on the street and you can say, this guy made 100 arrests this year. And from an internal perspective, you say, man, that dude shows up, he busts his ass and works really hard.
That sounds terrible to the public, that I'm out there arresting X amount of people. I probably look ruthless and unforgiving or whatever you want to say.
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Chapter 6: How does Michael Franzese compare law enforcement's use of informants to organized crime?
But if you take the same guy on my squad who's made five arrests this year, what do you think they say about that guy? He's lazy. He's sitting under a tree. If you drive past that guy in the public, you say, this is what my tax dollars are going for.
I feel like we can't win no matter what, but if not by the arrest record, you know, you could judge off other things, but I mean, what else would you, how else would they, you know?
You know, I think the difference is here because my experience is mostly on the federal level. And when you're dealing with organized crime, it's a whole different ballgame. It really is. It's a different kind of street crime, okay? Let me tell you something.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of paid informants in law enforcement?
During the golden years of the mob, from the late 40s right through the mid 80s, when the RICO Act went crazy and put everybody in jail, those were the golden years of the mob. New York Times, New York Post, Daily News, Long Island Press, Newsday, something about the mob, every single day. Again, Gotti, Fat Tony, Joe Colombo, they're all bigger than life.
You mean to tell me that people don't go after these guys, okay, because they know it's a big feather in their cap? It's human nature. Of course they do. I'm not saying it happens on every level. I'm certainly not saying it happens on long. I would hope that you make a lot of arrests for criminals out there. It's sickening to me.
Chapter 8: How does fear influence success in both law enforcement and organized crime?
When I look back and I see guys that were arrested 17, 18, 19 times and then come back out on the street and murder somebody, it's horrific. I can't even comprehend it, okay? That's a different kind of crime.
But when you go on a bigger level, a federal level, and they go after these big politicians and they go after organized crime guys and guys with big names, of course they're gonna get promotions and of course that's in their head. So what does that cause them to do? In my world, it causes them to stretch. Hey, I got to get this guy. This means a lot to me.
Okay, it's only normal. I mean, do you not, you keep referencing like the big names and the cases and things that you went through and respectfully, do you not see like, I don't know, more body cameras and there's cameras everywhere. Standards have changed. Methods have changed. Do you not think all these things have changed for the better? I'm not saying it's perfect.
I see the videos and things like you are referencing. I still see it. I understand them. That'll be perfect. But at the same time, do you still think those things are happening like the way that they used to at the level that they used to? Yes. You do?
Yeah. I unfortunately, look, I think that a certain level of government was corrupt during my time. I can't even comprehend the level of corruption that I see now. Not at your level. Not at police force. I'm not saying that at all. Okay? I'm saying in the higher levels. FBI. It's shameful what the FBI has become, in my opinion. There were certain sectors of it that weren't good during my time.
But what I see now... Pause.
You've been voted out by the majority.
Thank you. Thank you.
So you've introduced yourself. I'll introduce myself. So I have worked organized crime. I have investigated very, very... big-name people north of the border, some are probably your allies, some are probably your enemies or whatnot.
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