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@robertw2708 first point, when i say that i was the Godfather (not the grandfather) and that they should build a statue for me, I thought I made it clear that the reason for the statue is because I made a lot of guys rich. I can't even begin to calculate those who benefitted from my idea to bring back gambling devices to NYC, including operators, technicians, collectors, locations, etc. A lot of people paid off mortgages and a lot of kids went to higher institutions of learning. so that's point number one, Point number two, we made a lot more than 100,000 a week. I remember weeks of $200,000 a week but what difference does it make $100,000 or $200,000, the idea was that either way those were monstrous numbers, and I was referring to NYC, we had operations in NJ, Florida, Misssipppi, Georige, Puerto Rico, and I can't remember all the places overseas. Third point, we werent operating on 83%. the video pokers, the cherry masters, etc. paid out 50%. remember these were street locations and you dont operate on casino percentages. fourth and final point, what made it possible for Myron sugerman to be the person to bring slot machines, video poker, lucky 8 lines, cherry masters, quarter horse machines, etc to New York was because I was Barney Sugie Sugerman's son, a legend in the juke box and amsuement industry who was part of the Longie Zwillman gerry Catena world, and who taught me the principles of distributing and operating any form of coin operated machine. I lived all over the world starting age 21 and learned to speak a lot of different languages and learned people's different ways which was good for dealing with the international composition of NY. What makes anybody the guy who thinks of something that nobody else ever thought of? that's your question. Once I decided to do that business which was outside the law, I was entering the underworld and knew its rules and regulations, its customs and its traditions. I made everybody rich, I was a fair and square guy who believed "greed kills more guys than bullets" and so I made sure everybody earned. The Mob couldn't do what I did. they didnt have the knowledge, the contacts, the technology, the skills, i did however teach a lot of guys how to maximize profits once it was known that there was a guy in Hillside New jersey who was distributring and operating gaming devices. Every mobster in New York and New Jersey found their way to me, and I would say that almost without rare exception, they loved me because everybody loves a guy who helps them to make money. Human nature, people love the guy who helps the next guy to make money.
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@youtuber6185 THERE IS NOBODY WHO CAN ADVISE YOU AT WHAT POINT IN LIFE TO SELL YOUR BUSINESS, ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THAT DECISION BECAUSE ONLY YOU KNOW YOUR BUSINESS BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE ON THIS EARTH, YOU KNOW SECRETS THAT NOBODY ELSE KNOWS THAT NOBODY CAN EVEN IMAGINE, SO YOU ARE THE ONE WHO WILL DECIDE WHEN TO SELL YOUR BUSINESS, IF AT ALL, THERE ARE SO MANY FACTORS THAT GO INTO MAKING A DECISION IN LIFE WHEN TO SELL, WHEN NOT TO SELL, WHEN TO KEEP, WHEN NOT TO KEEP, WHAT TO DO, WHAT NOT TO DO. EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS DIFFERENT IDEAS OF HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT. IN ORDER FOR ONE TO MAKE AN IMPORTANT DECISION IN LIFE, ONE REALLY NEEDS TO KNOW ONE'S OWN SELF. KNOWLEDGE OF ONE'S OWN SELF IS THE MOST DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE FOR A PERSON TO ATTAIN IN LIFE. AND AS MUCH AS WE THINK WE UNDERSTAND OURSELVES, THERE ARE THE FORCES THAT TAKE PLACE IN OUR LIVES WHICH NO HUMAN INTELLIGENCE CAN PREDICT, LIKE THE PANDEMIC OF COVID WHICH TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN AND NOW THIS UNNECESSARY WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE WHICH IS SPINNING THE WORLD AROUND ON ITS HEAD. I DONT KNOW HOW MUCH YOU KNOW OF JEWISH HISTORY BUT THE GREATEST RABBI - PHILOSOPHER OF JEWISH HISTORY IS THE RAMBAM (MAIMONIDES). HE WAS GENIUS BEYOND COMPARE. AS BRILLIANT AS HE WAS AND AS MUCH AS HE UNDERSTOOD ABOUT LIFE, HIS ENTIRE LIFE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY FACTORS THAT WERE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO IMAGINE, THE RISE OF MOSLEM EXTREMISM IN HIS YOUTH IN BOTH CORDOBA (SPAIN) AND THEN FEZ (MOROCCO) WHICH CAUSED HIM TWICE TO RUN AWAY WITH HIS FAMILY TWO TIMES THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF HIS BROTHER DAVID, THE BUSINESSMAN OF THE FAMILY WHO HELPED SUPPORT THE FAMILY AND OTHERS WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, HIS OWN YEAR OF DEPRESSION, HIS BURDEN OF SUPPORTING HIS FAMILY AND HIS BROTHER'S FAMILY, HIS FAILURE TO FIND A LIVING IN JERUSALEM AND THEN FINALLY ENDING UP IN FOSTAT EGYPT (ANCIENT CAIRO) AS THE PHYSICIAN TO THE SULTAN. WE HAVE A WISDOM "IF YOU WANT TO MAKE GOD LAUGH, TELL HIM YOUR PLANS"
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@youtuber6185 SON, AT THE END OF THE JOURNEY, WHAT YOU WILL REALIZE IS THAT YOU WON'T HAVE TOLERANCE FOR STUPIDITY, PETTINESS AND NONSENSE. YOUR ASSOCIATION WITH 15 OTHERS FELLOWS LIKE YOURSELF IS EXCELLENT. MY SON IS AN ORTHODOX RABBI WITH 8 KIDS, SIX BOYS AND 2 GIRLS, HE IS A GREAT TALMUDIC SCHOLAR. ONE WHO DEDICATES HIMSELF TO LEARNING TORAH AND TALMUD FINDS GREAT INTELLECTUAL ENJOYMENT. I LIVED IN MORE THA A FEW WORLDS AND FOUND THAT THE BEST OF THE MOB BOSSES WERE THOSE WHO PURSUED KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. TOMORROW I AM GOING TO BE ON TOM LA VECCHIA'S YOU TUBE INTERVIEW. I DID ONE TWO WEEKS AGO, TOMORROW I WILL TALK ABOUT GERARD CATENA, WHO WAS TRULY ONE OF THE GREAT MOB BOSSES OF AMERICAN HISTORY, THE MAN SKIMMED THROUGH FOUR NEWSPAPERS DAILY, THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NY TIMES AND WSJ. HE WAS THE ONE WHO PUT TOGETHER THE BALLY MANUFACTURING DEAL. I REMEMBER TELLING PATRICK BET DAVID ABOUT HIM. HE WAS SO COMPETENT AS A LEADER, A MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD HUMAN NATURE, A MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF POWER AND ITS USAGE, A MAN WHO WAS VERY CAREFUL IN HIS SELECTION OF PEOPLE THAT HE ASSOCIATED WITH. AS FOR THE RAMBAM, HE LIVED A MOST COMPLICATED LIFE BUT HE WAS OUR GREATEST RABBI AND PHILOSOPHER, HE WAS CRITICIZED IN HIS LIFETIME FOR DRAWING LOGIC OF ARISTOTLE TO EXPLAIN JEWISH THEOLOGY, BUT AS HIS LIFE CAME TO AN END, HIS GREATNESS WAS APPRECIATED BY EVERYBODY. REMEMBER GREED KILLS MORE THAN BULLETS AND ANOTHER THING, IF YOU ARE THINKING OF USING MUSCLE AT THE END, IT'S BECAUSE ONE DIDN'T USE HIS BRAIN IN THE BEGINNING. KING SOLOMON SAID, WITH ALL HIS RICHES, WEALTH, POWER, THAT ONLY WISDOM IS THE PURPOSE FOR A MAN'S LIFE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. GOD BLESS YOU,
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@theesotaricitalian6338 HELLO ESOTARIC, I JUST SAW THIS MESSAGE FROM YOU. I THINK I SAW IT BEFORE AND EVEN ANSWERED YOU BUT I DONT SEE ANY REPLY THAT I DID FROM BEFORE SO I AM DOING IT NOW IF THIS IS THE 2ND TIME I AM DOING IT, SO BE IT. I USE CAPITAL LETTES BECAUSE AT MY AGE, MY EYESIGHT IS FAILING ME AS IS MY HEARING SO DONT FEEL LIKE I AM HOLLERING AT YOU, I'M NOT. ESOTARIC, I HAVE NO NEED TO CONVINCE YOU OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT I WAS A GANGSTER. IN REALITY I WASN'T A GNAGSTER WHO WENT AROUND KILLING PEOPLE OR THE ONE WHO ENDED UP HIS LIFE A BROKEN MAIL IN JAIL WITH A HISTORY OF A BROKEN FAMILY. I DID HOWEVER LIVE A LIFE OF AN OUTLAW, I LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE OPERATING OUTSIDE THE LAW, AND YES I DID DO TIME, AND YES I HAVE A GRET FAMILY AND SPECIALLY GREAT KIDS AND GRANDCHILDREN, MY SONS WENT TO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL AND ONE OF MY SONS IS A RABBI WITH A WIFE AND 8 KIDS ALL WENT TO YESHIVAS. AND YES MY FATHER WAS PART OF THAT WORLD AND I AM SECOND GENERATION, IT ENDS WITH ME, WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM BALAGULA AND THE RUSSIANS IS THAT I AM THE TAIL END THE CABOOSE OF THE WORLD OF MY FATHER AND HIS GENERATION. I AM TO TELL THEIR STORY AND WHAT GIVES ME CREDENTIALS TO DO SO IS THAT I AM KNOWN IN MANY PLACES OF TRHE WORLD , FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER, AS THE GUY WHO SET UP SLOT MACHINE OPERATIONS IN 70 COUNTRIES. AS A KID I WAS THE MANAGER FOR MEYER LANSKYS SLOT MACHINE OPERATION IN NIGERIA. I WAS INVOLVED WITH DINO CELLINI AND MY FATHERS PEOPLE FROM NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK. I AM ALSO KNOWN NOT JUST AS AN OUTLAW BUT AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICA AND A VERY PATRIOTIC JEW. I WAS SIMON WIESENTHAL'S MAN IN SOUTH AMERICA HELPING HIM IN PURSUIT OF NAZI WAR CRIMINALS, MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM EARNED ME RESPECT FROM THE WHOLE WORLD, READ MY BOOK, ITS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AND YOU WILL SEE THAT SIMON WIESENTHAL'S LETTERS TO THE JUDGES WERE VERY HELPFUL TO ME IN HAVING SENTENCES MITIGATED. I HAD THREE STATE CASES AND THREE FEDERAL CASES, THE LAST FEDERAL CASE, I ENDED UP DOING 19 MONTHS FEDERAL PRISON CAMP AND THEN TWO MONTHS HALF WAY HOUSE AND TWO MONTHS HOME CONFINEMENT AND THREE YEARS PROBATION AND THAT WAS IT. SINCE THE LAST 26 YEARS I SPENT A LOT OF TIME RUNNING GAMING IN PUERTO RICO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, UGANDA, NAMIBIA, AND TRIED MY LUCK IN CONGO WHICH WAS A COMMERCIAL MISCARRIAGE. SOMETIMES WE HIT IT RIGHT THERE WERE TIMES WE ROLLED THE DICE, AND THREW SNAKE EYES ON OURSELVES. ESOTARIC, YOU SOUND YOURSELF LIKE A VERY NICE GUY, I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU ARE SENSITIVE AND DON'T WANT TO HURT MY FEELINGS AND DECIDED TO DEFINE ME MORE AS A HISTORIAN THAN A GUY WHO LIVED "IN THE LIFE" LIKE MICKEY COHEN, MOE SEDWAY, INCIDENTALLY I KNEW MEYER LANSKY, WHEN HE WAS IN ISRAEL HE TOLD DOC STACHER TO PUT TOGETHER A LUNCH ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON SHABBAT AND TO INVITE ME. DOC TOLD MEYER LANSKY THE KID (THIS WAS 1970) COULD BE TRUSTED. DOC WAS MY FATHER'S OLDEST FRIEND GOING BACK TO NEWARK NEW JERSEY TURN ON THE 20TH CENTURY. GOOGLE DOC, HE WAS ON THE SAME LEVEL WITH LONGIE ZWILLMAN AND MEYER LANSKY, HE SOLD OUT OF MY FATHER'S BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR WHEN HE WENT TO LA AND THEN TO LAS VEGAS. HIS SHARE WAS BOUGHT OUT BY GERRY CATENA WHO BECAME THE BOSS OF THE GENOVESE CF, GOOGLE THAT NAME, UNDERSTATED AND UNDER RATED, GENIUS, BRILIANT AND DISCIPLINED. INCIDENTALLY, YOU ARE RIGHT THERE ARE TIMES I AM THE GUY WHO IS THE HISTORIAN, DIFFERNCE BEING THAT I AM NOT TELLING THE STORIES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A GUY WHO READ HIS HISTORY IN BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. I KNOW BECAUSE ALL THOSE OLD TIMERS LOVED ME LIKE UNCLES LOVE THEIR FAVORITE NEPHEW AND SHARED WITH ME THEIR STORIES. WHEN I OPENED UP NEW YORK CITY IN 1973 FOR SLOT MACHINES, BINGOS, UPRIGHTS AND HORSE GAME (IT TOOK OFF IN 77), EVERY MOB GUY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY FOUND OUT ABOUT ME AND CAME TO ME FOR PRODUCT, TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND ACTUAL TECHNICIANS WHICH I SUPPLIED FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AS A RESULT OF MY EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF CONTACTS. AS FOR SELF PROMOTING, YOU'RE RIGHT, I AM SELF PROMOTING. THE BOOK IS GREAT BUT NEVER REALLY SOLD, MAYBE I SOLD TWO THOUSAND BOOKS MOST OF THEM WHEN I GIVE SPEECHES AT SYNAGOGUES PEOPLE GET EXCITED AND BUY THE BOOK, THE BOOK IS A GREAT READ, EVERYBODY WHO READS IT LOVES IT. HOWEVER THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MY UNUUSUAL AND UNIQUE LIFE CALLED THE LAST MAN STANDIDNG WILL BE COMING OUT IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY TO BE RELEASED. RIGHT NOW OUR PRODUCTION PEOPLE ARE TALKING TO THE GIANTS. STAY TUNED I WILL LET YOU IKNOW MORE ABOUT IT. I PRAY THIS LEADS TO SOMETHING BIG, BECAUSE THE STORY I TELL EXUDES AMERICAN PRIDE (ONE OF MY BOYS WAS IN THE US ARMY AS A RESULT OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISIM) AND JEWISH PRIDE, SOMETHING THAT IS ALWAYS NEEDED B EACUSE JEWS TEND TO LOSE THEIR SENSE OF DIRECTION, ESPECIALLY NON ORTHODOX JEWS WHO ROOT FOR THE ENEMY (OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY) AND DESPISE TRUMP WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRIEND THE JEWS HAVE HAD SINCE THE TIME OF JULIUS CAESAR. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF ESOTARIC AND GOD BLESS YOU
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@Prone-Ski_BX absolutely agree, Torah is very general about the question of lending, you cannot lend a fellow Israelite (we were originally Hebrews, then Israelite and then Jewes) and charge interest. That's against Torah Law, the Talmud which is the Oral Law as further clarification to the written law (Torah) says much of the question of lending, too much for me to write about, but clearly states no interest to a fellow Jew. The church adopted this and made it a Law of the church a christian is not permitted to charge interest on a loan to a fellow Christian. Therefore European Christian Nobility needed the Jew to do his lending business. There is no rule on lending monies to a non Jew nor any limitations on interest to be charged, one is allowed to charge whatever the market can bear. Lending money is an activity of the Bank. People who lend are bankers. I do a goodly share of lending but I do it on the basis of knowing my guy and knowing his limits. I'm a lender to guys who cant go to banks. my money allows them to be capitalized for a job in order to make money, so in reality i am the silent partner who takes the risk on the guy who is going to do the work. When we operated gambling, when we started gambling machines exceeded customers, so customers were lucky to get machines. when the market became saturated, then the power switched from gaming operator to location owner. In order to get locations to place machines, we had to lend money to locations interest free, the juice of course came from the profit out of the gambling machines. when the market became super competititve and guys were out bidding each other on gifts to locations (no more lending), that's when the business started to go down hill. remember this "if you have to use muscle at the end, you didnt use brain in the beginning"
money lending even with collateral can be a pain in the ass if the guy you are lending to stops paying. You still got to sue the guy, and that's lawyer and time. I can write the book, i already wrote my book, next I could write the book how to do handshake lending
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@jeandellagjianni3548 YOU HAVE TO GO SEARCHING FOR THE POSTINGS. I WILL LOOK UP THE GUY WHO CONTACTED ME ORIGINALLY FROM PATRICK'S OFFICE AND TELL HIMWHAT YOU WWROTE AND IF HE MANAGES TO SORT OUT THE PROBLEM OF EASY TO FIND REPLY, I WILL TELL HIM FALEMENDERIT, FOR SURE I'LL SAY THAT TONIGHT AT THE RESTAURANT, I GO THERE EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN I TRAVEL TO SCRANTON, IT'S THE ONLY DECENT PLACE IN TOWN, FALEMENDERIT, AND HOW WOULD I SAY TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, YIDDISH WE SAY ZEI MIR GEZINT, I AM ASHKENAZIC WE SPEAK YIDDISH, THE 10TH CENTURY GERMAN LANGUAGE MIXED WITH HEBREW, ARAMAIC, AND SOME SLAVIC WORDS WHICH WE THREW INTO THE MIX.
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