In December of 2002, on a gloomy winter day, 61-year-old Vincent Buddy Cianci arrived

to Fortix Federal Prison in New Jersey. He was there to serve a sentence for racketeering

conspiracy. Here he is talking to the co-author of his autobiography.

Buddy had once rub shoulders with senators, governors, even presidents, but now...

Oh, I was... Oh, I worked in the kitchen. They put me there to high profile because they

showed the mayor serving food. I never did this before. I had to mop floors. I had to wash

dishes. I had to scrub pans and all that kind of stuff.

And he made friends. One of the first guys he met was a mafia capo from Rhode Island,

named Maddie Gugliomeddie. They had to have you get his there. There was Gugliomeddie

who was there, the guy, the mafia guy, and he's a nice guy, by the way. I sat to my

Instagram all the time. I said, you guys are so smart. You're on more tapes than Frank Sinatra.

And Gugliomeddie wasn't the only Rhode Islander Buddy would meet in prison. Buddy also met

someone you might remember from previous episodes.

One of the chances of me landing in the same dorm with him was just my luck that I did.

Charles the Ghost Kennedy.

I was very impressed with Buddy because I went in there with somebody who can have a conversation

without wanting to kill everybody.

I started hanging around him. I would go to the dinner with him and when he would get

out of work, I'd go on his cell. But he was in a two-man cell. And it was like a little

away from me because now I could get out of the dorm and go sit down and read. And we

talk. It was very enjoyable for me.

Charles and Buddy both liked to keep up on current events. And Buddy had lots of newspapers

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