1 hr 5 min
Episode 11: Lou Ferrante, ex-Gambino Crime Family / Author / TV Personality The Accent Podcast
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Lou Ferrante is a former mobster of the Gambino Crime Family, who did his time in prison, and then turned his life around becoming a bestselling author and a sought after TV personality.
Lou’s book, “The Mob Rules: What Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman”, became a best seller and was named The Best Business Book by Forbes. It was subsequently translated into 16 languages. His TV project, “Inside The Gangsters’ Code”, explores different gangs around the world and has been successfully running on Discovery Channel since 2013.
We spoke about his path to the Gambinos, his arrest, his time in prison, the transformation he has gone through, his books, John Gotti, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, and many other things.
01:45 Who is Lou?
03:30 Writing a bestseller
10:15 Fake diversity
12:00 Meeting George Weidenfeld
14:30 History of Mafia – contradictions
16:54 What is mafia?
19:20 Growing up in Queens
24:00 Crime in DNA
25:20 Prison stories
29:51 Mafia’s role in the streets
32:50 Day-to-day in Mafia
38:20 Snitching - Sammy “The Bull” Gravano
43:50 Arrest
47:00 Times have changed – Snitching 2.0
55:57 Prison is the greatest thing happen to me
1:01:45 “Mein Kampf” and other first books
1:04:00 Life advice to youth
Visit www.TheAccentPodcast.com
soundtrack: Bensound
Lou Ferrante is a former mobster of the Gambino Crime Family, who did his time in prison, and then turned his life around becoming a bestselling author and a sought after TV personality.
Lou’s book, “The Mob Rules: What Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman”, became a best seller and was named The Best Business Book by Forbes. It was subsequently translated into 16 languages. His TV project, “Inside The Gangsters’ Code”, explores different gangs around the world and has been successfully running on Discovery Channel since 2013.
We spoke about his path to the Gambinos, his arrest, his time in prison, the transformation he has gone through, his books, John Gotti, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, and many other things.
01:45 Who is Lou?
03:30 Writing a bestseller
10:15 Fake diversity
12:00 Meeting George Weidenfeld
14:30 History of Mafia – contradictions
16:54 What is mafia?
19:20 Growing up in Queens
24:00 Crime in DNA
25:20 Prison stories
29:51 Mafia’s role in the streets
32:50 Day-to-day in Mafia
38:20 Snitching - Sammy “The Bull” Gravano
43:50 Arrest
47:00 Times have changed – Snitching 2.0
55:57 Prison is the greatest thing happen to me
1:01:45 “Mein Kampf” and other first books
1:04:00 Life advice to youth
Visit www.TheAccentPodcast.com
soundtrack: Bensound
1 hr 5 min