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Michael Franzese is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Franzese's net worth $1 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was raised in Brooklyn, New York as part of the notorious Colombo crime clan. He was a Hofstra University student, but he decided to devote himself to organized crime.
He claimed to have coerced New York Yankees player who owed money Colombo family loansharks in order to “fix” their baseball games.
Franzese was briefly mentored by Colombo soldier Joseph “Joe-Joe” Vitacco (1927–1980). Although Franzese recounts this ceremony had taken place in 1975, the membership books reportedly were not reopened until 1976 (they had been closed since 1957).
During the late 1970s, Franzese met with Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, who was then a soldier. Angelo Ruggiero was also present. Franzese was contacted by a flea market owner who complained that his partner was using and selling drugs at the market in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Franzese agreed to frighten him and become the new partner. Franzese sent Colombo soldier-turned informant Anthony Sarivola and another member who remains unidentified. Gotti however claimed that the scared-off partner was an associate of his. After several meetings, Franzese proposed to buy Gotti out. Gotti replied, “Buy me out? I buy you out,” and handed over $70,000. Franzese later expressed admiration for Gotti, citing his strict gangster lifestyle and his overwhelming ego.
Franzese became acquainted with his father’s friends such as Joseph Colombo, and later became inducted as a made man on Halloween night 1975. Franzese took the blood oath alongside friend Jimmy Angelino, Joseph Peraino Jr., Salvatore Miciotta, Vito Guzzo Sr., and John Minerva – who all died violently over the next twenty years.
