Bobby Luisi on Being Capo in Philly Mafia, 20-Year Sentence, Cooperating with Feds (Full Interview)

immediately when I left when I got to Tennessee. I got a supervising manager. I work from there I worked for Sandusky cabinets they were out of Chicago they had a big plant in Tennessee I went there I was a quality control manager for them you know I had all my insurance I had everything I needed I had beautiful cars and we had a house and I didn't care anymore I failed none of the sheriffs, you know, you said you really pray for your old friends from the Philly

mafia

, especially Marleno, yeah, in this time of trouble and you hope he finds a way out, yeah, I do it for everyone.

To be honest with you, you know, I really do. I mean life today, it's not like when I grew up with the wise men in the late '70s and '80s, that was the time, you know, you know Joey's father was an underboss in the family. Years ago, before he went to prison, Joey is the same, George, everyone grew up in this life around these guys, you know, but it's not what it used to be, it's not like that anymore. It's sad, they just had a reunion in Philly in 2015. I did a few guys and one of them was on.

I mean, where are we going with this now? You know, and then again they recorded my friends. I know I call them my friends. I don't know. I know what they call me Vlad, but I don't care if there's something I learned. You know, I have a degree in theology and I also have a book on the revealed Amazonian plans of God and um, and I think it's not what they think of you, it's what you think of them I have no hatred or malice in my heart towards anyone well you said I know they would like to kill me but I have love in my heart for them yeah I had an awakening uh they have to get to a point where they say I've had enough of this yeah that's something you have to do on your own no one could ask you to do it, you know when that happened to me in '98, I wanted to say that I know it was God, but It was hard for me to believe in the things that we were doing, but when I saw what I saw I knew there was a devil and I knew that there was Jesus Christ and that changed my life.

I went from that night to

being

a hardcore gangster. wanting to see christ to be honest with you because I wanted to know what happened to me why this happened to me and I got my answers when I searched well and then at one point you became a pastor I was a pastor what happened when I married my wife there, I was going to different churches and she lived next door to a bishop in a black church. A great guy, Bishop Coleman, read my book, so after reading the book he wanted me to come teach at his church and uh, so I went in there, I was assistant pastor for a short time at Bishop Coleman's church, yeah, It almost reminds me of Michael Franzis, who's been a regular on my show, who yeah, yeah, Mike's a great guy, we did, uh, Mike and I.

I did Comedy Central in 2017. There was me, Frank D Matteo, you had him on the show too, Frank, yeah, three were there with the fake Donald Trump, oh it was a great show, great show, yeah, Mike's a good guy , he's doing great too, God. God bless it, you know it is, yes it is, it's really one of the things you said, I did some terrible things, I did bad things, what do you think is the most terrible thing you did, wow, what kind of questions about everything we did? It was terrible, I mean, you know, you take people's lives, that's not a good thing, you know, that's a terrible thing, you know, selling drugs, that's it, you know, I could never do that again, you know, I wouldn't.

I like to say it on the show, but I lost. my danielle, my oldest daughter, on December 18, 2019. She passed away, you know, it's all these drugs on the street. I feel more bad about the drugs than the actual murders. To be honest, people ask me about that all the time. you know how you feel what you did was it me or them or by friends or my family when we are in that life we ​​feel like we are more it's like

being

in the navy you know you get an order to leave you go me I mean that's it, no more we're civilians once we took that oath and look I was in Austria so a lot of those terrible things and hurting people and the things I did, I think the worst thing we did was sell drugs, I have to be honest. with you so your own daughter died of a drug overdose yes she did wow yes I'm daniel how old was she at the time? 36 36 that's difficult, beautiful, sad, I mean, how do you get over the idea that you lose your daughter to drugs, but then?

You also have to think that some of the drugs you used probably did that to other fathers and mothers who lost their children, that's what I'm talking about Vlad, when I say I feel terrible, yes, actually you know I have a program on youtube right now the Bobby Louise show and we have some counselors coming there now, local people who are helping people right now and hope

full

y within the next month we will start producing those shows on my show and my main goal now was just to help people in the Boston community and you know, try to get some of these people to help and Paul Tanzo, the one who does the show with me, you know he was very influential in all that stuff with the safe houses and the judges and to get people in. and you know, helping people get into safe houses, so we'll start getting back into that program again and hope

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y we'll start helping people well when you're talking about the

mafia

, the Italian mafia, the mafia, like you want to say it.

It's marketed so well through spectacular movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas and Casino and all those movies that are so well made and they're supposed to be secret organizations but they get plastered all over the big screen like this and everyone wants to be associated with them, but Ultimately, I've

interview

ed a lot of these mafia guys like you and the level of destruction that occurs just from being affiliated with this is always enormous, there are always these raids where 20, 30, 50 are charged. people, they are given double life, triple plus five.

year

s uh, you know, witness protection, you know, for example, as you know, you talk about losing your daughter, uh, you know, to drugs, Michael Franzis also has a similar story mm-hmm, you know, uh, I think He lost his sister, uh, you know. his own brother was a drug addict and he ended up testifying putting his own father in prison as the level of backstabbing, snitching, death and murder and everything else like that always seems to be so much more than whatever the good times are in its heyday.

Many of you know your careers, why do you think so many people still continue to do it and how do people still get into it knowing that's what will ultimately happen? Well, I have to say this by neighborhoods, I don't see a lot of that, but there are guys that still resist those positions, they are out there, you know, because, you know, again in my I have to say that in my generation I grew up with that, I grew up with wise guys, it was there in my face every The kids that come along now have to be crazy to even think about getting involved in this.

There are kids out there now that are selling drugs on their own to make four five six thousand a week. What do they need them for? Did you know? I say that, but then there are these guys that want to get involved, you know, they idolize it, they want to be in that life, they want to see what it feels like to be in that life, a lot of this life is action with the game. with the women, even with the murders and everything else that happens, even dodging the fence, it's action, it's a form of action like going to the Haas track and being on that horse and praying for the hot swings and the screaming and squeals understand that people like action and There is action in this life and they want to have that feeling.

What is it like to jump out of the plane with a parachute? But unfortunately the parachutes are not open and not anymore, Vlad, you know what I'm saying? It's not like the old days anymore. They're crashing but they don't see it, they just don't see it, yeah, yeah, I'm almost in prison for life for rats and informants. Am I going to go out again after spending 14

year

s and put myself through the same thing? position again you have to be crazy it's crazy no but some of these guys love that life I just can't see it and I know I'm not smarter than them but I can't see it well

bobby

luisi

.

I appreciate you sharing your story and you also have your own podcast, yes, the Bobby Luisi Show. You know we're trying to get there like once a week. You know when we're doing a lot of different shows and we're. Getting some followers, we're doing pretty well and we're going to keep going with these podcasts and like I said, see if we can help some people right now. We're doing a lot of mafia stuff because all my friends are gangsters. That's pretty obvious to me, you know, but we're going to venture into different areas, different genres and see what we can put together on the show.

Well, that's what it is, Bobby Luisi. I appreciate you sharing your story. I wish you all the best, thank you. brother thank you for inviting me God bless my pleasure I will see you next time peace