From dead man walking, to live one talking: How one crime boss lived to tell the tale.
Australian gangsters, who tend to have the life expectancy of your average bumblebee, would do well to study the once feared Franzese US mob family.
The mob business model may not be taught at Harvard, but it was effective nonetheless. Find a lucrative business, cut corners and then bully any competitors into retirement. Looking back, he knew it couldn’t last. “Because of my father, there was a target on my back from the start.” He was arrested 18 times, indicted seven times and went to trial five times.But times and his luck changed. The code of silence worked because insiders took an oath they knew if broken could cost their lives. But Michael Franzese says law enforcement started using anti-racketeering laws effectively, with threats of 100-year jail terms that turned insiders into informers.
Faced with a possible life sentence, he took a massive gamble – he would talk, just enough to cut a deal but not enough to end up dismembered in his dad’s kiddie pool. He was on a tightrope with crooks on one side and cops on the other. Even so, for many years he made sure his movements couldn’t be predicted, moving several times, walking his dog at different times and locations and never going regularly to the same restaurants.
He has taken the skill of talking just enough to cut a deal onto the speaking circuit – providing an insight into the mob, without giving enough specifics to get himself thrown into prison or cooked in a microwave . He is a fan dancer who knows exactly when to cover up.
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