I walked into a hotel suite at the Bellagio in Vegas where nine mafia members and a producer were talking about cement pours. These were construction sites where they would hide bodies in the soon to be poured cement. They sat me down and the "Don" started questioning me. This was odd because the people I'm use to working with are usually the interviewees. One of them sat next to the window playing with his Zippo lighter. The only reason I was allowed to be there was because of my criminal record and my questionable morals. He asked me about my stance on the government. I told him I lacked the ability to concern myself with the results of my actions and apparently that's what the government was for. He asked me how exactly I got a counterfeiting wrap on my record and never did jail time for it. I told him I was 16 and I claimed it was a school project. He asked me if I ever killed a guy. Not that I know of. He asked me if I needed cheap gas because each of their trunks were filled with gallons upon gallons of "free" gas. I asked him how they got free gas. He told me it was none of my concern. Once the formalities were done with, we got down to business. We turned on the tape recorder. A camera was out of the question. And so the 5-hour process of interviewing these mobsters began. They explained to me that the world was changing; organized crime wasn't what it used to be. Everyone was turning rat. The money wasn't worth the risk. They wanted out and thought making a TV show out of it was their best chance of not suffering the repercussions that would surely happen if they did it in the privacy of the family. They told me things that could put them away for life. Arson, murder, racketeering and other crimes that I had no business knowing. They were so straightforward that if I were there by myself I would have surely thought I wasn't leaving the room. My producer buddy Danny was there and seemed unnaturally excited about the whole situation. It was explained in detail what would happen if this info was ever used against them. We would disappear. This was the second show pitch that the Jay and Tony Show put me in charge of. The end product would eventually get picked up by TNT. I was offered a producing position on the show. I turned it down on account that they scared the hell out of me. Even Danny, the creator of the show handed it off to the network because he heard the things I did in that room.

Unmarried to the Mob
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