My name is Gianni Russo, aka Carlo, the infamous son-in-law from the godfather.

I'm now known as the Hollywood Godfather, and this is my story.

Before all of the wins in my portfolio, I was a little boy diagnosed with polio.

Experimenting with cures, I tried I tried everyone felt everything in my right

but my left was numb walking with a limp like will I ever run once again or is this it

am I forever done living in the hospital was never fun some people were cool but not everyone

you never know who you're lying in a room with. So I broke a broomstick in half and let it groove with the concrete in the bathroom floor. It had a new tip, stashed it behind it toilet in case I ever had to use it. Because one day Dolores had a chat with me. Says she got word someone was coming after me.

My heart started beating rapidly.

Speak softly loud and hold me all against your heart.

I hear your words, the tender trembling moments.

Welcome everybody to another episode of Hollywood Godfather podcast, and Pat is going to give you a little recap.

If you weren't tuned in last week, and I'm sure anybody that was tuned in last week is tuned in right now to hear the second part of this story.

Pat, would you let our audience know who are great guests there is, and probably, as we said last week, I mean, unbelievable the story you hadn't lived.

Yeah, our esteemed guest is a retired federal agent Joseph Hacopenty, who told us in the first

episode of this, this is the second episode, about how his investigation led to him doing such a good job, basically, that a Dominican drug cartel had to get rid of him and killing a federal agent.

This isn't a wise thing to do so. They did the next best thing, which was frame him for several federal crimes. And I imagine Joe going into something

like this when this investigation started, you figured you had nothing to worry about. You didn't

do anything. Correct? Correct. Joe? Yeah. So anyway, so, but it, now it reaches reaches fruition, but he's indicted.

And now you have to start to shake and sweat.

And as I was telling our audience last week, this is when you and I met to discuss your case back in the day.

So we're going to continue with the second episode.

If you haven't been introduced to Joe Akapente, it's my honor and privilege to introduce

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