Michael Franzese

He was a “Capo” and made member of organized crime. His main forte was making money for the mob and in a very short time he made over one “billion” dollars for the Colombo crime family. He was born May 27, 1951 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City is a former New York mobster and “caporegime” of the Colombo crime family and son of former underboss John “Sonny” Franzese. Michael was enrolled in a pre-med program at Hofstra University but dropped out to make money for his family after his father was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a bank robbery in 1967.

Michael helped implement a scheme to defraud the federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 1980’s and by the age of 35 “Fortune Magazine” listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses” . At the height of his career he was making 8 million dollars per week and in 1986 was sentenced to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges, released in 1989, rearrested in 1991 for a parole violation and was ultimately released in 1994.