Growing up in Brooklyn the Park Slope Area and later Massapequa Park he was associating with children of connected guys. Living in a cop family, he tells his humbled opinion between the police and organized crime. Learning to be loyal and respectful from mob guys and by the age of 21 he was driving a new Lincoln and hustling. Stories of Roy DeMeo and him being an opportunistic criminal.
Did any of his previous jobs help him with being undercover? This transitions into how he landed being the Asian Undercover for China White Heroin and the enormity of the drug problem in NYC. Stories of being undercover include having a knife to his throat.
The Italian Bread Industry which was protected as he explains leads into Operation Wasteland where he was placed in a unit called, The Bad New Bears. Quick trip into martial arts background and back to the private sanitation industry where over 30 arrests of mob associates, soldiers, & capos of the largest organized crime case in NYPD & Manhattan District history. His explanation of why there it was no confidence in this team. What working wiretap is really like leads into a story that landed him in trouble.
The waste disposal industry before Operation Wasteland and how the wise guys were controlling it. Everyone was benefiting from it, but was Mayor Guiliani? A story about how he got a particular envelope from a meeting that broke the case open. The new laws that were made due to the case and The Operation Wasteland Documentary. Ending with the insurance business is organized crime!
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