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If a sitting next to me is, who's become a good friend.

And you know, of all the stories and testimonies I've heard over the years, I've never heard one quite like this.

I mean, I've heard of guys coming out of a life of crime. I've heard of

guys coming out of gangs. I've heard of people coming out of drug addiction but I've

never spoken to a person that was a made man, i.e. a good fellow. And sometimes when we talk

about the mob, we call it the mafia, but the mafia is really

exists in Italy, in America, it's really exists in Italy.

In America, it's called a cousin Austria,

it means this thing of ours.

And there's similar organizations organizations but if you're a

made man in Italy you're not automatically made in America. Define a made man.

Made man's means you you're proposed into the family you take a blood oath and you commit your life to

La Kosenostro the mafia. And you took that blood oath? I did. So this life of crime

which can appear so glamorous because of movies like The Godfather or Goodfellas and others that make

it look like such an appealing life even the young men today you had that initial excitement and you were making millions and

millions of dollars you were what they called in the mob and earner correct?

Correct I was totally exhilarated the night I took the oath, it was Halloween night 1975, and you know, just wanted to be a made guy and I started out as a soldier, rose to the position of Kappo-ajim or Kapo, which is a very powerful position in that life.

So in the kind of the organized structure of a family, you have the Don, who we might think of as the godfather the boss right the

boss okay and then we have the what under boss the under boss and then we have the

captain well you have a consulieri who is the advisor allegedly to the boss.

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