Research that resonates.

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's.

Investigations that matter.

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fired. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the

Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power. The co-host,

as always is Eric Eggers, author and vice president here at the Government Accountability Institute.

Eric, good to see you. And we have a very interesting special

guest today to talk about Washington corruption from a pretty unique angle. A unique angle and

informed angle. And more important than anything, I'm excited to have somebody on that's like

clearly more successful than you in life, right? I mean, you have been an accomplished author.

You've done a lot of cool things. But my man was in the top 20 of Vanity Fair's most influential and successful mafia-related businessmen. And so, you know, I wonder, like, how do you actually, do you have to turn over 990s for that, Michael? I mean, how does Vanity Fair go through and rank people of that nature. I have no idea how they came up with that chart. I always say they didn't ask for our tax

returns, so I don't idea how they came up with that chart.

I always say they didn't ask for our tax returns, so I don't know how they got that.

Well, the voice you're hearing is Michael Franzazi. He is a second generation member was of the

Colombo crime family. And then he had an interesting life journey.

We're going to talk about that.

And he has written this terrific book.

Now, I ran across this book on Amazon.

We get sent books.

I get sent books all the time.

This is one I actually ordered and paid for because I'm so intrigued about it and buy it.

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