I was robbing drug dealers at one time for a while. I seen him driving, and he was like six, four,

500 pounds, big dude. I says, hey, Eddie, I says, where's my money? Bing, boom, bomb. I started,

I knocked him to the ground. I put a telephone cord around his neck. My friend was choking with him.

My other friend put the gun to his head. You don't ever mess with my family.

My guest today is Joe Barone.

Joe is a former associate of the banana crime family and one of the longest serving FBI

informants in mafia history.

He was undercover feeding information to the feds for 18 years.

Joe's father was a soldier and hitman for the Genevice crime family,

but when he was brutally murdered by the mob in 1989, Joe decided to flip. In our conversation,

he exposes what it's like living a double life, working for the mafia and the FBI,

and tells us who the biggest gangster really is.

For more content with Joe, go over to patreon.com slash the Connect show.

Without further ado, this is one for the books, everybody.

I give you Joe Barone right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.

They said, we want to show you something.

Nowadays, a stack of photos like this of my father.

The cemetery, digging him up, and him on a slab.

When I signed the papers that I'm going to cooperate with them, I says, listen, I want to find out.

You think we're going to find out who killed my them. I says, listen, I want to find out. You think we're

going to find out who killed my father? He says eventually, yes. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, Shang, it's like six inches, and he passes it to me.

And he goes, here, that's yours.

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