Part II: “Mafia Made” Author, Anthony Caucci Explains Why He Has No Regrets!

“I’d do the whole damn thing all over again 100% in detail…”

Racketeering, drug trafficking and murder were just some of the crimes being committed in front of 5-year old, Anthony Caucci. The crimes were instantaneous, the impact of witnessing those crimes lasts a lifetime. Throughout his life, Anthony Caucci witnessed various acts from wise guys. Being around his father taught him many lessons and codes of honor that you didn’t break. Those lessons would pave the way for Caucci for the rest of his life. He lived a risky lifestyle and after several run-ins with the law, serving a prison stint and even being on the run from the FBI, Caucci stood firm, never snitched and did his time like a man. All lessons that he had learned at an early age. See, Caucci saw firsthand what happened to guys who broke those codes. Caucci fully understood the consequences of cooperating. His book, “Mafia Made,” is an eye-opening intense look inside of his mafia upbringing down in South Florida. Caucci pulls no punches in recalling some of his wild encounters.

Caucci talks about the dangerous, Colombian and Cuban Cartels and much more during this final installment!

You know you’re reading a good book when you’re basically yelling at the book, “Anthony, don’t do this transaction, don’t go there, it smells fishy.” There were instances in that book where I was pleading with you (laughing).

Anthony Caucci: The thing is, I would have a bad gut feeling, but then you second-guess yourself. It’s like, “Wait a minute, this guy got checked out. He did 15-years in prison. He has to be good.” But something just didn’t seem right. I had a bad feeling about some of them and boy was I right about who the bad ones were. Your gut tells you.

Not to give too much of the book away, but you got out of some very sticky situations on more than one occasion. Some of it seemed like intuition; some of it was pure luck…

(Cutting in) Anthony Caucci: Some of it felt like I had an angel with me. I just couldn’t figure it out at all. The craziest one had to be Taiwan. I’m in handcuffs, come on. I’m done, I’m arrested, See they had already marked my passport coming into Taiwan. I knew something wasn’t right and my girl tells me, “Nah, you’re paranoid.” I’m like, “I’ve been in and out of country’s for years now, I know something is up. That bitch at immigration wrote something down in red ink.” Getting back to the story, when I was now leaving Taiwan, they grabbed me, had me handcuffed, they got my passport, they are peeling it apart and scanning it. They went through my fanny pack and a business card fell out and they started reading that shit and speaking in their native language and their eyeballs straightened out. And I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on?” I had no clue that I had my Kung Fu teacher’s business card on me and that changed the whole environment. The next thing I knew I was on the airplane going, “Oh my God! No way this is true.” I couldn’t believe it.

Do you have any regrets?

Anthony Caucci: None! Zero! I’ll tell you why, if one thing were to change. If I didn’t do one thing in my life, if I changed the sequence of events, I wouldn’t be where I am now with a beautiful wife and a beautiful daughter. If I didn’t go to Japan, I would’ve never met my wife. So, what I have today is because of what I did before. Are there things that I may not have wanted to say or do to people? Yes! Would I want to change the events of where it put me? Would I take back going to prison? No, I wouldn’t take that back because if I had not gone to prison, I would have gotten right out and done something else. I was in there long enough and the time had to be right before I got out. There are things that I regret that I shouldn’t have done. I didn’t want to hurt people. I shouldn’t have done that of course, but that was the business. I wish I can take that back, but if that was going to change where I’m at today, then I would have to say, I’d do the whole damn thing all over again 100% in detail because of what I have now with my wife and my child.

No regrets, but do you ever wonder what a normal life would have been like for you?

Anthony Caucci: What it would have been like… you know, the only way I can look at what a normal life would have been like is if I look at someone else’s. If you would have told me back then, “If you go left, you’re going to go to prison, you’re going to end up in Japan on the run,” I probably would have taken the other route and gone straight. If you could see the future, but you can’t see the future. Honestly, there was always the opportunity if I wanted to live straight and go down the straight path, but that wasn’t for me. I think I have lived 10 lifetimes. You just read a little bit of the story. This firs book stopped when I arrive in Japan. Imagine how many people you talk to that can tell you anything like that that happened in just a few years. When I landed in Japan, I was 23.

So, the timeline of the first book is from the time I was 5 to the time I was 23. Look at that what I had been through in those 23 years, people don’t experience that in 5 lifetimes. That’s just then, then I have 3-years in Japan. The shit that happened there is another 4 or 5 lifetimes. And then I get back to the states and go to jail again. The stuff I have seen in my life and experienced, I should be 300-years old. It’s amazing the amount of stuff I have done and witnessed, the places I have been and the shit I have done. The things that I went through in such a short period of time. That was another reason for writing the book because no one would really believe this shit. If you told your friend this story they would be like, “Get the fuck outta here.” It seems like it just can’t be, but when you start to read it, you think to yourself, there is no way someone could actually make this up.

I came up in Louisiana and I was under the impression that the Italian Mafia was the most dangerous people on earth. Your book has enlightened me to the fact that, although the Italian Mafia are serious individuals, they have nothing on the Colombians and Cuban Cartels.

Anthony Caucci: The Italians had this code, this rule and code of honor. Don’t touch any women or children. You can’t do this; you can’t do that. The Colombians don’t give shit about anything, but give me my money, give me my shit… we’re going to do anything we need to do to get it. They don’t play! You know who else was really bad, but I never dealt with them, the Jamaicans. There was a time down here where the Jamaican Posse… those motherfuckers were brutal. They used to light people on fire in their own bathtubs. But they didn’t last long because they used to like to rob people. Their thing was ripping people off. You come to Miami and that didn’t happen. I mean, it happened but not for a business. Nobody in their right mind is out there just ripping off drug dealers. You weren’t going to survive. Because if you rip off the wrong ones, and they did, they ripped off some big people…. Wait that just made me remember a story.

A guy gets ripped off for 2 kilos. A few years go by and this guy is bowling. And he sees this Jamaican dude that robbed him with his family. The guy that ripped him off. Put a gun to his head and everything and left his ass naked behind a dumpster at a gas station… So, this is back in the day. He had to pay for the 2- keys. Back then it was like $30,000 out of his money. Back to the story, so he calls his buddy and says, “Hey, I found him.” His buddy goes, “Who?” “The Jamaican that ripped me off years ago.” “Where are you?” “I’m at the so-and-so Bowling Alley.” “Don’t move, don’t let them out of your sight.” So, everyone calls everyone, and everyone is getting together. Everybody is following each other on 95 on their cellphones. They following this Jamaican dude and they end up at a motel where the doors are on the outside, they waited, he got inside, they watch his room, they knocked on the door an hour later, go in, baseball bats, they beat the shit out of him and killed them all. Just like that.

That’s crazy. Hey man, powerful book, it’s great to read and hear your growth as a person and I hope anyone who picks it up has an open mind. They will enjoy it. Is there anything else you want to say?

Anthony Caucci: You just said it; I just hope anyone who reads it has an open mind. That’s the first thing they gotta do, they have to come into the book and have an open mind. I was even thinking of putting a disclaimer in the beginning like, “Listen, the books got a lot of racist talk in it, but not a lot of racism.” Because you got the incident with the kid that tripped me in school, they go on and whoop the shit out of the dad, but then they turn around and give the mother $1,000. Racist would have been, Fuck all ya’ll.” If people understand… let’s not lie. That’s the worst part when people lie about it being one-sided. Everybody says racial or prejudice slurs. They say the shit, but it’s what’s in your heart. You can use the “N” word, you could call people crackers and all that shit, but when it comes down to it, the main question you have to ask yourself, when there is two men standing in the room, one white and one black, is one man’s life worth more than the others? The answer is, absolutely not! Unless one’s a pedophile or rapist, and he deserves a bullet right between the eyes. No jail, straight to hell… But two men being equal men, black, white or Chinese, is one man’s life worth more than the other? Absolutely not! Unequivocally not. I don’t care if your homeless or worth millions of dollars We are all the same and that’s the bottom fucking line. So, if people understand that before they read it and understand how I used to think, they will come to the conclusion that I’m not a racist. To me, if someone doesn’t like someone just because of their race then what they are actually saying is, they don’t like what God created and if you don’t like what God created, pack your fucking bags and go to another planet you racist pricks.

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