Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - How The Emperor of the World Was ARRESTED | FRANK AMODEO

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

How The Emperor of the World Was ARRESTED | FRANK AMODEO

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August 1st. He said, I'll then invade the neighboring countries. And he starts naming off the countries and what his plan is for each country. Until he ultimately has a 5 million man military. He said, I will be in charge of the largest private military in the world once I've taken all of Africa. Hey, this is Matt Cox, and we are continuing with the Frank Amadeo story. It's Insanity. Let me hold up the book.

It's insanity. And I think we last left off, Frank was in Latvia, Riga. Riga, Latvia, actually, I think so it was. So the city of Riga in Latvia. He had flown in there with a group of his guys, and he had been approached, talked, someone from the CIA spoke with him. They did not want him to basically to invade Tajikistan. So it never happens, whether it never happens because of what happened with the, with his

meeting with the CIA, I don't know. You'll have to figure that out. Frank doesn't. Well, Frank thinks he knows, but. You never know, based on everything that I looked at and everybody I spoke with. It could be many things. I think that may have been a factor. So during the day, at the NATO summit, they have meetings with, the way the summit works

is obviously they have some meetings where you have like, you know, President Bush comes in and gives a talk and there's multiple heads of state that come in and give talks on what's going on in their region, things they're concerned about, things they want to work on, you know, where these countries are going. So Bush does come in. He gives a speech. Frank's there. Frank is meeting with multiple. They have a, they have different activities. And one of the things Frank had explained to me was that there's, there's tons of people from major industries that come there, right? They want to meet with the heads of state to talk about, you know, lumber rights or, you know, mineral rights, or, you know, building a pipeline or whatever the case may be, you know, hey, you know, maybe you're China and you're trying to convince, you know, some, some South American country to let you build a port.

So you kind of go there and you court them and try and meet everybody and schmooze. One of the things they do is they have what's called, after these large meetings, they have breakout groups. And anybody's been to a seminar or a convention. understands what I'm talking about. You have these large auditoriums where almost everybody attends, and then you have breakout groups because not everybody's interested in the same thing. One of the things which I found fascinating, and I think this helps, I think this kind of helps people, will help people understand how Frank's mind works. He was at a breakout meeting or breakoff meeting. I think they called a breakout or break, what do they call it? Breakout. Breakout group. It was a breakout group.

where they were talking about the problems that NATO has with some countries that aren't paying their dues. So there's a lot of countries that, for instance, you know, they expect NATO, they want to be a member of NATO, but they're not meeting the parameters that are set to be a member of NATO. So I'll give you an example. take Ukraine. Ukraine, for example, one of the things that you have to do is you have to use, you have to donate a portion of your gross national product, right? Or you have to contribute a certain amount of money to NATO. You have to contribute a certain amount of money to maintaining NATO troops, even though they're your troops.

And also, your military hardware has to be to NATO stand. So you can't, you can't be using Soviet error weaponry and tanks, AK-47s. You know, you have to use like a, I think it's a 5.62 rounds. You can't use the 7.62 rounds, right? You have to use the NATO rounds. You have to use the NATO. You have to use their stuff because what they want, obviously, is that if you all go to war, that you'll be using the same armament.

So it's easy to supply one another. it's easy to maintain those types of, that type of equipment. So that's one of their parameters. The other thing is that, you know, a lot of these countries, like they're not, they're behind on their dues, right? They're not providing the amount of money that they need to provide. But they still expect, they're still expecting, like if they were invaded, they would immediately want NATO to come to their aid. Okay, but, you know, you're behind, you know, 500 million dollars in your dues. You know, you have to pay annual like dues or I don't know if they're monthly. I don't know what they are. But anyway, so Franks, they're having this discussion.

And they have this discussion. Every country donates a certain amount of troops to maintain, you know, the NATO, whatever, presence or military. But many countries are behind. So Frank, they go to this group and they start talking about that and how to resolve these problems and what kind of you know like how do you put how do you you know how do you get people to pay and and what kind of things could be done to offset that payment could they provide more troops can they do can they allow their their country to be used as a military base like what types of things and frank came in and said listen in the 16th and 18th century privately owned armed ships and privately owned, you know, privately owned military groups were given what's called

letters of marquee, which means that the king of England would say, look, you own, you're running eight ships. You've got eight vessels here that have cannons on them. We're going to give you a letter of marquee and we're going to allow you to essentially be pirates, licensed pirates. You can go and you can attack ships to our enemies. So the French, the Italians, you know, the Spanish, they were all like at, let's say they were all at war at different times with England. England, one of the things they would do is they would privatize their military by giving letters of marquee to to these ships and those ships would end up attacking their enemies and they had to give like 30% of the whatever they the booty what you know the booty whatever they I think that's what they

called it too um 30% of whatever they got had to go and it may have been 20% or 50% I don't know but they had to give like 30% of it over to England to maintain their letters of marquee and what frank suggested is listen there's lots of private militaries out here and if Spain is behind $500 million on their dues or a billion dollars on their dues, but they have boats, you know, oil rigs that are going through bodies of water that are maintained by NATO or that are helped supported by NATO, why don't we just seize their, why don't you have these private military groups go in and seize their oil tankers? And then they can sell the oil tankers. And then you'll get 30, NATO will get 30% or 50% or whatever the deal is. So that's the kind

thing that he talked about. And it was a very, it was a, you know, there were different things that he was saying could be seized. And keep in, too, you're talking about seizing members stuff. Right? So you go in and you seize this oil and you seize this and you do this and you, so he had a very unique and he had a whole plan and it was laid out brilliantly and he explains the whole thing. But keep mind, every time Frank opens. his mouth, these guys are like, wow, this is, I mean, it's insane. It sounds insane, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. Like, it is a solution to a problem that, that NATO itself has not created. These are NATO members that aren't paying their dues, but expect protection.

Let's grab some oil tankers. You guys are saying, oh, we don't have the money. Well, we'll grab some of your oil. We'll grab a few oil tankers that have $200 million with oil. That's. that'll go a long way towards your back dues. After the first or second day, these, the summit, you know, these conferences last several days.

The summit lasted several days, four or five days. So after the second or third day, here's where it goes wrong for Frank. He's attending a, I don't know, like an after party, let's say.

I think, you know, they're basically having, you know, coffee and tea and, and they're at some hotel, someplace, or someone's private,

residents, I'm not quite sure, but there's a significant amount of people that are involved in NATO there. Maybe they're associates, maybe they're members of NATO, their staff, but they're there. And everybody's sitting around talking and laughing and joking around. And someone says to Frank, Mr. Amadeo, I see what happened in the Congo. We were wondering, what are your plans? for the Congo. And Frank says that his interest in the Congo, and by the way, I just saw it right here, it's just, it was one of the, one of the luxury hotels in Riga, the Grand Palace Hotel. So they're there, they're having, you know, they're talking. And some, one of them says, what is your plan for the Congo? What was your plan? And he explains what his plan was. And they

said, well, you know, is that, they asked if it was off, you know, and he said, no, no, he said, I'm currently negotiating in negotiations with the president. We're going to be placing a security force there. And they, he'd actually, the, the agreement he was making with them was to, he was going to go into, so there's, there's a certain tribe in the Congo that is kind of disenfranchised, right? Like, they're not really led into the government. They're kind of on their own. They're, they're extremely upset with the way things are, but there's a ton of them. They're also a problem. And the name of that tribe is the mimba Jew may I. Mimba Jew may I sound like Donald Trump trying to explain, trying to say one of these names. Mimbujou may I tribe.

And what Frank says is he's going to go, what he, the first thing he's going to do is once he gets into the Congo, he's going to go in and he's going to get half a million of these of these guys that are un unemployable well they're just unemployed you know if you're the you're the Congo government the the um the republic of the Congo won't hire them because they're such troublemakers and they're not happy with a status quo so they end up being kind of you know they're unemployed so he's going to go and employ them train them as soldiers and make them private military and he's going And his plan was, he said, I'm going to build a half a million man-strong army out of this tribe. Now, once that's done, he said, I'll then invade the neighboring countries.

And he starts naming off the countries and what his plan is for each country until he ultimately has a five million man military. He said, I will be in charge of the largest private military in the world once I've taken all of Africa. And he said, once I've got all of Africa, it will be such a large group of soldiers or military, private military, that I'll be able to, it'll be large enough to police the entire planet, he said. And then we won't need NATO. Now, he's in the middle of a manic moment and he starts spouting off these things and laughing and joking and joking. and but he just said he's planning on building the largest private military in history and eliminating NATO that's at that level that is a horrendous thing to say especially from a man who was a plot to take over the Congo which it was just foiled so he says this he doesn't

really realize what he said or the impact. Spends the rest of the night there talking an hour or two later. He leaves a couple of days, spends a couple more days at the conference, goes to get into his, gets into his plane. He's flying over the, uh, over the, uh, the Atlantic. Halfway over the Atlantic, he gets a phone call from his lobbyist. Remember I had said in one of the early video, earlier videos, he had hired a lobbyist that was a, that had been a lobbyist. That was a, that had been a lobbyists or had been, I think on the one of the, had been on, connected to Bill Clinton. He'd been, she'd been like a staff member with Bill Clinton. And she had left and started a lobbying firm.

And he'd hired her. So he gets a phone call from her. And she says, did you just tell members of NATO that you're planning on building a massive private military and eliminating NATO? And he says, well, I, you know, I may have said something along those lines. Like, it starts to dawn on him. And she says, I'm getting multiple calls from different people in the government asking what this is about. She's like, Frank. And he said, well, I was just saying that, you know, eventually, you know, that might be something that happened.

He starts trying to backpedal. And she says, Frank, you just, you were just in the Congo. Your people were just in the Congo. And there was a, what everybody believes is a military coup. was just foiled like and now you're talking about building a you know building a massive army and taking over NATO like this isn't something that these people are taking lightly anyway she says she's going to do damage control they land the plane a few hours later he gets off and within a few days target letters start appearing let me explain what target letters are

When the FBI is investigating companies, the first thing they do, when they're investigating massive companies for fraud, the first thing that they do is they send out target letters to everybody that may or may not be a member of, or I'm sorry, they send out target letters to anyone that they believe may be involved in fraud, or is it the very least under investigation for fraud, Right. So, so all of the, you know, all the board members and different, various people that are a part of Frank's company get these letters saying, it's from the FBI. You're it's a target letter. They're investigating me. And what typically happens is a lot of those people will, they do this, you know, they say they do it to notify people to let them know, you know, not to destroy anything that we will be contacting them. That, you know, but really what they're doing is really kind of a, a fishing, it's a fishing excursion where they're, they're trying to see if any of those people will contact them to say, hey, listen, I know what's going on, and then cooperate. Well, all these guys start getting the letters.

Few people contact the FBI. They may or may not have, you know, tried to help fill them in. But overall, the bulk of the people that were involved in Frank's company genuinely didn't think they were doing anything wrong. now once the FBI goes in they start subpoenaing records they start getting just gobs of records they start reading through everything and they end up getting a few people that are willing to talk and these people explain about that frank is currently several of his companies are behind on their payroll taxes but that they're in they have that they're making the payments there

in negotiations with the with the IRS they're actually in to go this is what's interesting about this part of the negotiation process was that frank was saying he was going to bring the company public and to pay part of the back debt that he owed the IRS let's say so that the back payments so let's say he owes the IRS whatever they get it ended up being like 200 million but at this point it's probably 160 180 I think he got hit for $180 million. So let's say $180 million. And what he ends up saying to them is,

if you'll take stock in the company, when we go public, you'll be made whole. Now, the problem with that is they were having a hard time getting anybody to sign off on that deal because technically the government isn't allowed to own stock in a private company or accepts stock in lieu of a payment. here's what's funny about that a few years later when the economy collapses the government ended up taking stock in all of the banks that it had bailed out so the same proposal that

frank was proposing they were having a trouble getting anybody that would agree to do it two years later they all jump on board they have no problem at all sure we'll do that so you know the so in frank's defense you know he's got a viable out for the what you know what he's behind on anyway the government uses that to say what you're doing is this is money that you have that you're using for other things listen and and frank will tell you that he didn't use that money for anything other than uh you know his current businesses, that money was put aside, that they were just behind. But the truth is a lot of that money was going to places it shouldn't have been going to. And Frank has never said

this to me, but, but, you know, after looking at the documents and listening to what the U.S. attorney said and reading the indictment and everything else, you know, it's pretty clear to me, assuming the government's not lying, that money was reallocated for other ventures. Now, Frank seems to think that that's acceptable. The government doesn't. And it's not up to me to make that determination, although if I had to, I would say that's fraud. But what they do is they use this to craft an indictment and indict Frank. They indict Frank. Frank goes out and hires an attorney, gives that attorney a million dollars he says listen here's a million you're a criminal defense attorney here's a million dollars to represent me so if we have to go to trial if we have to do whatever here's

a million dollars guy says i got it i got you well the indictments come down and they come in and frank has to be he's arrested he's arrested and he he's arrested and he he's arrested and initially what happens is they end up saying to the judge, Your Honor, our problem is that we believe, and keep in mind that Frank's private psychiatrist or psychologist, which one can give you medicine, whatever, the one that can give you medicine, he comes in and he explains to the judge that, look, Frank is under the delusion that he believes that he is preordained to be emperor of the world. And I say it like that because that's how Frank says it. So he believes that he's ultimately going to be a, the world leader of what Frank calls the Taryn Empire. And Taryn means like

Earth, I think. So I don't know. What's so funny about it is that that's actually taken from Star Trek. There's actually like Khan. I think Khan in the Star Trek, it wants to rule over the Taryn Empire or something like that. I'm sure somebody will tell me in that comment section, bro. It's hilarious. Like it's from a Star Trek episode. So he's going to rule over the Terran Empire as, you know, which is the earth as the emperor. He explains this to the judge and says it's been a reoccurring fantasy and delusion of Frank since he was in his teens.

And that he would like to have him evaluated because their argument to the charges are this. Yes, this is what Frank did. But he was in contact with the IRS. He had numerous meetings with the IRS. The IRS had never told him not to do these things. The IRS was aware of how much money the company was behind. They were working with him. They were currently in negotiations.

And even if some of those funds were diverted or everything wasn't exactly on the up and up, even if that's the case, Frank was unaware of it as a result of his mental illness. so i believe it's the government that says they want to have frank evaluated for schizophrenia or to determine what kind of a mental illness now frank always kind of says you know the way he explains he's he is a rapid cycling bipolar with features of schizophrenia so in his manic moments he will say things that are based on delusion and, you know, like schizophrenics do. You know, he sees and hears things that are not, and believes things that are not based, well, they are based in reality, but are not possible that are not really happening.

For instance, God talking to him. Or hey, maybe God is talking to him. Who am I? Here's the cool thing about that. they end up taking Frank and they transport him to Harvard Medical Schools, or is it Harvard, I don't think, I think it's on Harvard Medical School on the campus, but it's, anyway, somehow another, it's Harvard medical, you know, mental, for a mental evaluation to a mental hospital that's run by Harvard. I think it's called McLean and it's, McLean and it's, that's something to do

with Harvard. Anyway, point is, Frank goes there for like a week, they interview him, and they dope him up. They put him on a ton of medication. They bring him back after a week. And they say he's got, he's, he's has a mental illness that he's rap as a rapid, he's rapid cycling bipolar with features of schizophrenia. However, they've put him on enough medication to get his levels into a moderate area. And, and he's now able to he's now able to understand the difference between right and wrong and they can move forward on the prosecution so you can imagine how that didn't work in his favor like we're just going to dope him up and now we're going to say okay we're we've stabilized his

his rapid cycling you know issues is bipolar issues we've stabilized him and now you can prosecute him okay but the point is is that that when I wasn't on the medication, I made those decisions. So that doesn't make, so that's no good at all. He should be, he shouldn't, he was never in his right mind when he made some of these decisions. Well, what happens is the prosecution comes to, comes to Frank, goes to Frank's lawyer. The U.S. attorney goes to Frank's lawyer and says, listen, here's what we're going to do. We're going to take him to trial. But the first, but the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to the judge and we're to say we want to seize all the bank accounts and we want to do what's called claw back we want to

claw back any money that he's spent that we can get a hold of and he paid you a million dollars so we're going to take your one million dollar retainer because it's fraudulent money we're going to take him the trial we're going to go after the million dollars first to seize it and you'll be on the hook for doing a what should be a million dollar trial for nothing now i believe that there i've seen the there's an email that states this i want to say frank showed me the email i have it my records that that talks about the million dollars his million dollar um deposit or you know whatever they call that so after that meeting this attorney while frank is completely doped up frank frank

and his psychiatrist go to Frank and they convince Frank to take a plea. Now, he tells Frank, you know, what you did was illegal. He tries to explain it to him. Frank's so doped up. He didn't know what he's doing. And they said, look, Frank, you're looking at a couple years, a few years at most. If you plead guilty, you're looking at a few years. So Frank goes in and they said, and part of the agreement is that the prosecution has allowed Frank, to take the stand and fully explain his rise to, you know, power and what he had expected and what his delusions were and why he was, you know, why he was delusional and what he was thinking, basically. And keep in mind, these guys convinced Frank. And in Frank's mind, he's like,

yeah, if I explain it, he'll understand that I didn't really mean to do anything wrong. And I didn't realize that what I was doing was wrong. And even now, even at that point, Frank was so drug up he didn't even realize that what he was pleading to but your his high price lawyer and is um and the guy's name was dr danzinger anyway the doctor's telling him to do it the lawyer's telling him to do it he's so drugged up he can't see straight so he pleads guilty to it was ridiculous like one count of you know wire fraud against the united states government like it's it's a minor charge and then they have they have a hearing well at the hearing, Frank takes the stand. First of all, lots of people take the stand. Okay. So, but, and it was, it was really, I want to mention this. While writing this in prison, I'm listening to Frank. I'm able to interview some people. I'm able to get affidavits. I'm able to read the transcripts, but listening to him, there were times when I would think,

that's not true. That's insane. Like, for instance, you know, going into a meeting wearing a Darth Vader helmet. You didn't do that. But then you read the transcripts. And in the transcripts, they're talking to this woman. And she starts talking about, they're like, did you ever know that? Did you realize that he was, you know, mentally ill? And this and that. And she's like, well, like, she doesn't want to admit it. But she's like, yeah, there were signs. And she says, they go like, what? And he's like, well, one time he came. in a Darth Vader helmet. And she explains that whole situation. She explained several different things that had happened to her. One of them I didn't even put in the book, but I thought it was hilarious. And that was that she had, according to Frank, she had stolen proprietary programs that they were using. And wasn't, wouldn't return them. And Frank had called her a, up and threatened her and all these things. And a few days later, her house was burglarized and her computers were stolen. Now, Frank has the ability to have his security, his private guys in the private security fly to her, and she lived several states away, fly to that state,

break into her house, steal the stuff, and leave and not get caught. So, but, you know, I didn't put that in there because I have no proof of. of that. But that's what she believed. That's what Frank said she believed. That's what she's mentioned. I think she mentions it in the transcripts. It's insane. So yeah, it was Edie Curry. She was not happy with Frank. But several guys get on the stand. They all say basically the same thing. And what happens is Frank eventually takes the stand. He's up there all day. I think he might have been there for two days, but I'm going to say all day. He's up there all day. He explains that he's been hearing these voices since he was young he he tells the story of the course of four five six

hours however long it takes tells the entire story and to the to the judge you have to understand he sounds insane now he's lucid but he's doped up he's he's got he's on it's funny too i remember he had told me how he was on a ton of drugs and he was literally at one point that like his lawyer had to mention to him that he's drooling run drool was running down down the side of his face. And, you know, it was horrible. But when I read the transcripts and Frank starts listing all the drugs that he was on to the judge, like anybody that reads it can't believe that that judge didn't say, listen, this guy's drugged out of his mind. I'm not, we're not going through with this. Like, this is insane. And it's so benign the things that happened. You know,

nobody got killed, nobody was hurt, like it's, this is clearly, it ends up being, you know, even though there's a ton of money involved, it really ends up being like accounting errors and a misunderstanding. But that's not the way, ultimately, that's not the way the judge sees it. The judge ends up, listen, and by the way, Frank explains about the Taryn Empire. He explains, it's insane reading these things. It's fucking pure insanity. And that's all I could think of whole time i was writing this thing was this is insanity and that's why i ended up naming the book it's insanity um i i he the judge ends up you know what's so what's so fucked up about the judge is he ends up saying you know after hearing everything he ends up he ends up saying that i don't

think this is mental illness i think it boils down to just greed i mean he's just like he ends up just saying this completely. I wonder if I could even find it. I'm sure I can find it. It's, it's ridiculous. Let me read this. I just read this. I just was flipping through the book, just to give you an example. How insane that it had to be to be sitting in the courtroom listening to this. This is, and I forget, I don't even know who's saying this, but Sands. Sands is, the he's the attorney says Frank Amadeo consistently with his brain disorder spent the money on world domination he's going to be some sort of emperor and there is a cooperative economy system under the sponsorship of Frank Amadeo who has basically taken the place of the United Nations

Sands went on to describe his client as a megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur when not properly medicated. Amadeo was, in fact, so delusional. He believed that he could take money from the federal government and use it for other purposes to create the biggest corporation on earth. I didn't even know what to say. So it, you know, and then I've got the whole, I've got, and I've got excerpts.

These are just excerpts because nobody wants to read, nobody wants to read the whole thing, right? Like, I'm not going to make you read all the transcripts. ridiculous. I just take some excerpts and put it together. But, you know, if I have to say, I think it was put together pretty well. Here's what the judge said. Now, it's a few paragraphs. There's no dispute that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder admitted the judge. However, Antune is the name of the judge, doubted that the illness contributed to his mental capacity. And this is after everybody has said it contributed.

But the judge said, he's going to forget the doctors, forget the lawyers, forget the staff, forget his wife, his coach, everybody, forget all that. He then sentenced Amadeo to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for 22 years and six months. Because 22, rounding it off to 22, that wasn't enough. The six months, that had to be done. Disregarding all of the evidence to the contrary, the judge closed out the sentence with, the offense was committed out of greed and here's a problem with this and my buddy Pete and I

we used to walk around and you know laugh about the whole story and the things that I was uncovering and things I was reading and I would come to Pete and be like bro you got to you got to read this and show it to Pete and show the the memos and the affidavits and the

everything here's the thing about Frank and this is literally almost verbatim the conversation we had. Listen, here's why I think that Frank, it's truly delusioned. He was not done out of greed. He did not take this money or use this money for other purposes out of greed. With the money that Frank diverted to his plans for world domination, Frank bought a house, a middle-class home. He lived in a middle-class home. He drove a Mercedes that was five or ten years old. He spent almost no money on himself. He worked 80 hours a week. He had a staff. He was

always available. He worked so much it drove his wife crazy. And he didn't go on any lavish vacations. He didn't do any of those things. And I remember Pete saying, if you gave me $180 million, I would be living in a penthouse with 10 strippers in their early 20s. I would be a maniac. I would be driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. I would be taking exotic vacations. It would be a free-for-all. Frank didn't do that. Frank was married. Frank was married with, he's got, with two kids. And these aren't even his children. These are his wife's children that he takes care of. Like I said, doesn't have a flashy car, doesn't live in an extravagant house. He's just living a upper middle class life. He's not spending this money on himself. It wasn't done out of greed. It was done out of greed. It was done out of delusion. He didn't know what he was doing. You know, he's diverting these funds, not realizing

exactly what's happening. I mean, do I think that, of course, there's a part of him that knew maybe that this isn't right? Yeah, there's probably a part of it that, you know, I'm, it's kind of a scam because I should, I could pay this money over, but I'm using it to restructure the companies. And part of his restructuring is, let's try and take over the Congo. let's try and do these other things. And, you know, let's try and get the companies into a position where we can go public and we can bring in even more money. And I'll use some of that money to pay off the IRS. And in his mind, all of that was reasonable. So he has diminished capacity. So even if you know, diminished capacity is like you understand that it's, there's an issue, but you don't understand the real danger or really how bad it is. So you have diminished capacity. You don't quite understand that what you're doing is completely illegal or illegal to the extent that you're going to get a 22-year prison sentence. And that's that's really what I think.

So here's the even more interesting part is that Frank is sent to federal prison. He goes to federal prison and you know what they do in federal prison? they give him even more dope. They dope them up even more. They put him on all kinds of medication where he's basically a zombie, which is where I saw him when I first met Frank,

and I would see him in the Chowall Hall line and he would just sit there. I mean, he's a zombie. You could barely talk to him, and he stays in that state for over a year. Now, here's the thing. In order for you to file what's called a 2255, which is a motion where you're saying, my lawyer doesn't know what they're doing

or didn't know what they're doing or didn't adequately represent me. They were ineffective. You have one year. You have one year to file that. They kept Frank so doped up. He didn't even realize that the year had passed. The other thing is, so when Frank comes back from McLean, the Harvard Hospital. You know, it's so, he's, he's been declared incompetent is probably not the right word. But in the state of Florida, they declare him incompetent. And they give him, they give him a guardian. So they assign you a guardian that works for the state.

Now, if you're declared incompetent, you're made a, you're made a, award of the state. So you don't get to drive, you don't get to open a bank account, you don't get to sign a contract, you can't buy a house, you can't do anything. Now, they assign this, you can't write a check. The government is the one that pushed for him to get a guardian, right? His lawyer, everybody is on board with it. They give him this guardian. Once they've got him doped up, they bring him in, because they don't want him to write any checks, they don't want him to be able to do anything without this guy's permission. They then have him plead guilty. So he pleads guilty.

He signs a plea agreement without his guardian's consent, without his guardian's knowledge. His guardian didn't even know that the government had had him sign and his lawyer had had him sign a plea. a plea deal didn't even know it so when frank goes to prison he first gets to prison he calls his guardian to let him know where he is because the guardian's taking care of frank's accounts and businesses and that sort of thing he calls the guardian and the guardian's like hey frank the guardian thinks he's calling from the county jail or from the u.s marshals holdover and he tells him i'm in coleman I'm in the Coleman low security prison he goes why he said this is where they sent me

keep in mind he's out of his mind he's all he's all drug filled with drugs and they said this is where they sent me after I was sentenced and he says when were you sentenced he is oh they had me sign a plea agreement and they sentenced me to 22 years and six months and his lawyer I mean he's sorry his guardian is like what he's like How is that even possible? You're not even allowed to sign a plea. You can't sign anything without my permission. So they keep him drugged up.

And a year later, when Frank finally soberes up and they start taking him off the drugs, he realizes, I never even had the ability to plead guilty. So he files a 2255. And you know what the court says? You're time barred. You had one year to file it. It's been a year in two months. or a year and however many it was just over the one year your time barred we can't even look at

your case we can't consider this information because you had one year to put it in and you didn't and as a result frank ended up getting stuck with a 22 year sentence because despite what you watch on law and order and on the TV shows that are out there the law is extremely unfair to prisoners. Well, eventually, once they've got him locked up in jail and he's locked up with me, they take him off the meds. And Frank starts teaching the legal research class and he starts training guys on how to do legal work. And he just becomes a little workaholic because, you know, he's manic most of the time. He maintains his manic state by drinking sodas, drinks at least two or three cases, like 12 packs a day. It's insane how much soda he drinks.

He's a really interesting guy. And I, of course, I've already gone over. If you've watched the other videos, you'll realize, you'll see that he got 12 years knocked off my sentence. Just an amazing, amazing human being. You know, a deeply flawed human being as most amazing human beings are, unfortunately. I mean, there's always some guy you think, wow, what a great guy. Like, this guy's perfect in every way. He's, he's personable. He's funny. He's nice. He's extremely intelligent. He's helpful. He's brilliant. You know, and that works for five or ten years. And then you find out that they've got somebody chained up in the basement. And you realize, oh, wow, he did have some issues. So, once I got out of prison, and I got out of prison just before, you

before Frank did. And I don't know if I went over this or not. I was talking to Frank. And I said, you know, I was emailing Frank, which I'm not supposed to do. But so we're emailing each other back and forth. And I explained to him that I wanted to take the synopsis and I wanted to turn the synopsis that I'd written. Because it was hilarious too, by the way. I'm following Frank around. eventually finished the synopsis, and it was like 20 pages or something. Did I tell you this? Frank, I gave it to Frank to read. And I, listen, I was very, I'm very open about who he is and the things that happen and the whole thing. Like I explain, I don't hold back any punches. He read it and came back and loved it. He loved it. You know, honestly, like in a prison setting, he's a pretty cool dude.

Even the whole manic wanting to take over the world, megalomaniac, you know, that whole thing in prison makes you, that's, you're a lot cooler than the drug dealer that had six guys working for him. I tell you that, you're a lot cooler than some guy working for the cartel or some guy who's running a Ponzi scheme and stole $50 million. Like, listen, this guy, this guy's taken over the world. This guy's a James Bond villain, you know. so he loved it he loved it so much he got them printed up he started having people print up the synopsis over and over and over again and handing it out to people like people would come and say i wanted to talk to you about doing my legal work he'd say well the first thing if you want me to do your legal work the first thing you need to do is read this and

give them a copy of its insanity and they'd read it i mean listen it was and honestly it was great too because people would read it and they'd come by me and they'd be like cox you got any other stuff. Like, this is insane. This is fucking great. Do you have anything else I can read? And I was like, yeah, sure, I got some other stuff. So when I got out, though, Frank was still locked up. And so I wanted to blow that synopsis up into a full-blown book, right? Like, not a big book. You know, I probably could have done a good 300 pages. The problem was, initially, I asked Frank if he could put me in contact with some of the people that he had worked with so I could interview them really kind of beef up, you know, what I already had. And he put me in contact with those people and I talked to

some of them. But in the middle of the arranging some of the interviews, Frank got wind that he was going to get himself released on the, I want to say it's the first chance act where you can get yourself where if you've done a certain more than 50% of your sentence and you're over the age of 50 and there's all these little criteria and frank met all of them so he was he was helping me arrange meetings and interviews with with many of the people he had worked with and I'd interviewed a couple of them but suddenly he contacted everybody and told told them he didn't, that he didn't want them to talk to me. And that he would be handling all media upon his release. And he got out, whatever, a month or so later, he actually

was released. And so he didn't do 22 years. He did like 11. So he did like, let's say, and I could be off. It might be nine. It might be 12. But let's say 10 or 11 years he did. He was released to a halfway house in Orlando. He was then put on an ankle monitor. He then got out of the halfway house, went to work for like a law firm, I believe, and ended up consolidating a couple of different companies and essentially starting the whole process again. He started consulting for companies that were in distress. He started negotiating, and he starts doing the whole thing over again. But here's why I think he called all these guys and told them he didn't want them to talk to me. Because initially when I wrote this, and

Frank was thrilled to have me blow it up into a full book. What's cool in prison isn't cool on the street. Guys that have conversations in prison about things and talk to each other and have discussions and what they think is cool and funny are vastly different than when they get in the real world. Frank thought to himself, I feel, he was about to get out. When I was writing the book, he had at least 10 more years. So me writing a book that brings attention to his situation, he was okay with because he's locked up. But now suddenly he's getting out.

And he didn't want me to tell the story of a borderline schizophrenic that believes God is telling him he's going to take over the world. And he's trying to take over countries. And he's doing all of these things. now that makes him look crazy what he want the story he wanted told was the story of a guy that was bipolar not schizophrenic bipolar and it made some bad decisions and ended up being taken advantage of by the government his situation was taken advantage of by the government and he ended up going to prison he got an improper sentence and he's he's really a brilliant person that was misunderstood, was framed practically, and he's now starting his life over again.

He doesn't want to focus on the delusions. And so he put the kibosh on my interviews. Now, Frank, knowing me, you would have thought he would have realized that's probably, it's probably better to, it's better to work with me. You know, it's better to do a controlled blast than it is to bulldoze the building and not know what's happening, right? So he could have come to me and said, look, here's what I want. You know, let's negotiate how this story, what we're going to talk about in the story. We could have probably done that, maybe.

But instead, he just tried to shut me down. And so what I did was I then started making. taking phone calls and started contacting people that Frank wasn't in contact with anymore. And I interviewed those people. And then I went and I found all the affidavits that had been placed in the court. And I read those affidavits and I included them as interviews. I then read all the transcripts and I included those as interviews. I then found a former CIA agent who was Andrew Bustamante, which I'm sure some people know.

he's huge um uh i interviewed him for the book so i went and did a whole slew of interviews that were unrelated to frank and the thing is that had frank frank probably could have had those people that i was going to interview he probably could have had them help tweak the story but instead i had to go around him and get um a very accurate version of the story uh since frank Frank's gotten out, like I haven't spoken with him. I do know that he was re-arrested. He was in the government re-arrested that, well, they violated his supervision, his release, right? So they release you and they violated his supervision and had him throw back in jail for about six months. It took him six months to get in front of the judge. And the government could not explain why they'd

violated him. They had two reasons. One was he was currently committing the same types of crimes that he was originally arrested for. And two, he had left the jurisdiction on many occasions without notifying them. Now, Frank has an ankle monitor on. So it's not possible for him to leave the jurisdiction. And when they said, we'd like to know who said that Frank is, um, is breaking the law or committing some kind of a fraud who said that and where's the proof the government ended up saying they had that his probation officer had gotten an anonymous phone call on both both of those two violations one that he was breaking currently engaged in breaking the law by committing criminal activities although it was never specified they said he's doing the same thing he was doing that originally got him thrown in prison. And they said that he was, that he had left the jurisdiction multiple times without telling them. Probation officer called the U.S. attorney. U.S. attorney said, violate him because they want to throw him back in jail. They throw him back

in jail. Take six months for him to get back in front of the judge. And the judge says, what are you talking about? You got a couple phone calls and you violated him? Like, what are you doing? I think he gave him 10 days to come up with the actual proof 10 days later they couldn't he said let him go put him back on on a back on an ankle monitor put him back on back on the street so he got back out and he's out to this day so um that's you know that's kind of where it's at like i haven't spoken to frank i i know people that have spoken to frank he's supposedly doing very well but he's also at this point very, very timid, very scared. He knows how bad the government wants to lock him up. Now, whether they're scared, whether they're concerned that he's going to eventually, you know,

create another mirabalus and work on world domination, who knows? I don't know what their thought process is. The fact that he owes roughly $200 million, that can't make him happy. But I don't know. I don't know what the crux of the issue is. I just know they desperately want to put him back in prison. And that I definitely just want to, you know, sell some books, bro. I just want to sell some books. I want to get this turned into a series. I think it would make an amazing, I don't even think it'd make an amazing movie.

I think it would make an amazing series. So that's really where I, where I'm at. I'm trying to pitch the story to producers. and I wrote a book. Book sells well. Please buy the book. And if you buy the book, please do me a favor. Don't just buy the book.

Buy the book, read the book, and leave a review. It doesn't even need to be five sentences. It can be one sentence. It can be seven or eight words. It can be two sentences. Very short review. The reviews do help. I really do appreciate it.

Here is the book. It's insanity. I'm sure that Colby will play the trailer. that I made. It's really just the back of the book and I had somebody narrate it and threw in some B-roll. And then there's pictures of Frank in it too.

It's a super, I did a great job. I did an amazing job. Anyway, definitely, I appreciate. I appreciate you guys watching this whole thing. I'm sorry if I was all over the place. I'm trying to recount or recount, recant, recant. No, recount, recount, recount. I'm trying to recount all of this.

I'm trying to remember all of it. I'm trying to remember everything as we go and I was basically kind of just flipping through the book as I went, just kind of revise my memory. I really appreciate you guys watching this. I appreciate you guys watching the channel. Any of the videos, do me a favor by the book. Consider joining my Patreon because it does help, believe it or not.

And I have a lot of other books. Look in the description. All the links will be there. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. me a comment, share the video, do the right thing, see you. Buried by the U.S. government and ignored by the national media, this is the story they don't want you to know. When Frank Amadeo met with President George W. Bush at the White

House to discuss NATO operations in Afghanistan, no one knew that he'd already embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government. Money he intended to use to bankroll his plan to take over the world. From Amadeo, Amadeo's global headquarters in the shadow of Florida's Disney World, with a nearly inexhaustible supply of the Internal Revenue Services funds. Amadeo acquired multiple businesses, amassing a mega conglomerate. Driven by his delusions of world conquest, he negotiated the purchase of a squadron of American fighter jets and the controlling interest in a former Soviet ICBM factory. He began working to build the largest private militia on the planet, over one million applicants. can strong. Simultaneously, Amadeo hired an international black ops force to orchestrate a coup in

the Congo while plotting to take over several small eastern European countries. The most disturbing part of it all is, had the U.S. government not thwarted his plans, he might have just pulled it off. It's insanity. The bizarre, true story of a bipolar megalomaniac's insane plan for total world nomination available now on amazon and audible