If we're going off of cash and asset seizures I've read about taken against mobsters of his stature alone, then it is indeed a heap of bullshit. It doesn't sound like bragging, it sounds like downplaying or minimizing. $1 million a year for a guy like him is nothing to brag about. If he was making the big bucks, why would he tell anyone what he's really making? Both mobsters/criminals in general and authorities alike would want a piece of him. At the end of the day though, you really can't possibly know the truth.