Name: 作為黑手黨老大，我是如何每週盜取 800 萬美元的？ (How I Stole $8 Million A Week As A Mafia Boss)
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T08:02:35.000Z
Duration: 8 min 24 s

In 1986, Fortune Magazine wrote a huge article, 50 Biggest and Most Powerful Mob Bosses in the Country.

1986 年，《財富》雜誌撰寫了一篇題為 "全美 50 個最大、最有權勢的黑幫頭目 "的大文章。

Out of that list of 50, some 33 years later, 49 of them are dead.

大約 33 年後，在這份 50 人的名單中，49 人已經去世。

My name is Michael Francis, and I was a former capo, capo regime in the Colombo crime family back in New York, one of the five New York mafia La Cosa Nostra families.

我叫邁克爾-弗朗西斯，曾是紐約科倫坡犯罪家族的頭目，紐約黑手黨 "科薩-諾斯特拉 "五大家族之一。

My dad was the underboss of the Colombo family.

My dad was a very highly publicized figure.

我的父親是一個備受矚目的人物。

He was a major target of law enforcement, had a lot of media attention.

他是執法部門的主要目標，備受媒體關注。

And I grew up, as a result of that, actually hating the police, because I loved my father.

是以，我從小就憎恨警察，因為我愛我的父親。

You know, I always saw them as the enemy, you know, trying to hurt my dad, trying to hurt my family.

你知道，我一直把他們視為敵人，你知道，他們試圖傷害我的父親，試圖傷害我的家人。

And originally, my dad didn't want this life for me.

本來，我爸爸不希望我過這種生活。

He wanted me to go to school, be a doctor.

他希望我去上學，當一名醫生。

I was on that road until my dad got in some very serious trouble in the 60s.

我一直走在這條路上，直到我父親在 60 年代遇到了一些非常嚴重的麻煩。

In 1966, my dad was indicted in federal court for masterminding a nationwide string of bank robberies.

1966 年，我父親因策劃全國範圍內的一系列銀行搶劫案而被聯邦法院起訴。

After a lengthy trial, he was convicted. 1967, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

經過漫長的審判，他被判有罪。1967 年，他被判處 50 年監禁。

He was shipped off to Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas to do his time.

他被送往堪薩斯州的利文沃斯監獄服刑。

And I was a pre-med student, and when my dad went away, I was devastated.

我是一名醫學預科生，父親去世後，我傷心欲絕。

Figure he had 50 on top of that, he'd never come out of prison alive.

如果再加上 50 塊錢，他就別想活著出獄了。

And at that time, Joe Colombo was the boss of our family.

當時，喬-科倫坡是我們家族的老大。

他算是把我帶到了他的羽翼之下。

I started to meet a lot of my dad's friends.

They would say to me, Mike, what are you doing going to school?

他們會對我說，邁克，你去學校幹什麼？

If you don't help your father out, he's going to die in prison.

如果你不幫你父親 他就會死在監獄裡

I went to see dad, and he was pretty upset.

He didn't want that life for me originally.

Wanted me to go on as a professional, but he knew my mind was made up, and I was a pretty headstrong kid.

他想讓我繼續當職業運動員，但他知道我心意已決，而且我是個很任性的孩子。

He kind of threw his hands up, I'll never forget.

他舉起雙手，我永遠不會忘記。

And he said, all right, but if you're going to be on the street, I want you on the street the right way.

他說，好吧，但如果你要上街，我希望你以正確的方式上街。

He actually proposed me for membership in that life.

實際上，他向我提議加入那個組織。

You can't just go up and tell somebody, hey, I'd like to join.

你不能隨便上去告訴別人，嘿，我想加入。

They have to vouch for you, say you have what it takes.

他們必須為你擔保，說你有能力勝任。

所以，就我而言，是我的父親。

Next 18 months to two years, I was in kind of like a pledge period.

接下來的 18 個月到兩年，我處於一種類似誓言的時期。

You had to do whatever you were told to prove yourself worthy to become a member.

為了證明自己有資格成為一名成員，你必須不惜一切代價。

Halloween night, 1975, I was called into a room with five other gentlemen.

1975 年萬聖節之夜，我和其他五位先生被叫進一個房間。

The six of us walked into a room individually, boss seated at the head of a horseshoe configuration, walked down the aisle, stood in front of the boss, held out my hand.

我們六個人各自走進一個房間，老闆坐在馬蹄形配置的首位，我走過過道，站在老闆面前，伸出手。

他拿起一把刀，割破了我的手指。

Took a picture of a saint, a Catholic altar card, put it in my hands and lit it aflame.

我拍了一張聖人的照片，一張天主教的祭壇卡，把它放在手裡，點燃了它。

And he said, tonight, Michael Francis, you are born again into a new life, into La Cosa Nostra.

他說，今晚，邁克爾-弗朗西斯，你將重獲新生，加入科薩-諾斯特拉。

If you betray your oath, you violate your oath, you're gonna burn in hell like the saint is burning in your hands.

如果你背叛了你的誓言，違背了你的誓言，你就會下地獄，就像聖人在你手中燃燒一樣。

I took that oath very seriously back then.

我當時非常認真地履行了這一誓言。

And I take it seriously today, even though I don't consider myself a member of that life anymore.

今天，儘管我不再認為自己是那種生活中的一員，但我仍然認真地對待它。

One, I wanted to get my dad out of prison.

第一，我想把我爸爸從監獄裡救出來。

I brought some new things into the family hadn't been done before.

我給家裡帶來了一些以前從未有過的新事物。

So I devised a scheme to defraud the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.

於是，我設計了一個騙取政府每加侖汽油稅的計劃。

I ran that operation for about eight years.

And at the height of my operation, I was selling a half a billion gallons of gas a month.

在我經營的鼎盛時期，我每個月能賣出 5 億加侖的汽油。

And at one point in time, we would bring it in seven, eight, nine, $10 million a week.

我們曾一度每週能帶來七、八、九、千萬美元的收入。

I had a house in Marina Del Rey, California, a house in New York.

我在加利福尼亞州濱海德爾雷有一棟房子，在紐約也有一棟房子。

I had 300 guys under me ready to do anything I'd tell them to do.

我手下有 300 人，我讓他們幹什麼，他們就幹什麼。

I did get my dad out of prison after 10 years.

我確實在 10 年後把我父親從監獄裡救了出來。

My dad did a total of 40 years in prison on that 50.

我父親因為那 50 項罪名總共坐了 40 年牢。

I'll tell you where I was in 1984 when things started to make a transition for me.

我會告訴你，1984 年我在哪裡，那時我的人生開始發生轉變。

My father was grooming me to take over the family, boss, underboss, whatever way it worked out.

我父親一直在培養我接管家族，不管是老大還是老二，不管是什麼方式。

I had two federal racketeering cases, one brought on by Rudy Giuliani.

我有兩起聯邦勒索案 其中一起是魯迪-朱利安尼提起的

I really had it going on at the age of 29.

29 歲那年，我真的有過這樣的經歷。

And among many things I was doing back then, I was making movies.

在我當時做的許多事情中，我最喜歡拍電影。

I had a production company in LA, and Smokey Robinson was a good friend.

我在洛杉磯有一家制片公司，斯莫基-羅賓遜是我的好朋友。

He comes to me with a screenplay for a breakdance movie.

他帶著一個霹靂舞電影劇本來找我。

So we made this movie in Florida, and I brought in 50 professional dancers to work in the film.

所以我們在佛羅里達拍了這部電影，我請來了 50 位專業舞蹈演員參與演出。

There was a young dancer by the name of Camille Garcia.

有一位名叫卡米爾-加西亞的年輕舞者。

You know, it was like you had me at hello.

你知道嗎，我好像被你迷住了。

And as a result of my falling in love with her and us being so far apart, I mean, I'm this mob guy, and she's this young girl of faith.

由於我愛上了她，而我們又相距甚遠，我是說，我是個黑幫老大，而她是個有信仰的年輕女孩。

I knew if I wanted her in my life, I had to make some changes.

我知道，如果我想讓她出現在我的生活中，我就必須做出一些改變。

I decided to try to walk away from that life.

I didn't want to hurt my former associates, but that's not something that you do.

我不想傷害我以前的同事，但這不是你應該做的。

When you leave that life, it's considered betraying your oath, and you can pay for it with your life.

一旦離開這種生活，就會被視為背叛誓言，就會付出生命的代價。

I took a plea on a big racketeering case involving this whole gas scam that I was involved in.

我在一樁敲詐勒索大案中認罪，該案涉及我參與的整個天然氣騙局。

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