59: Michael Franzese - From Good Fellas to Good Guys and Surviving The Mob

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Michael Franzese was a caporegime in the violent and feared Colombo crime family. His father was the underboss in the family, and eventually, Michael became a made man. But things weren't as they seemed. He met a woman who changed his life, did ten years in prison, and became the first high-ranking official member of a major crime family to walk away--no protective custody--and survive. Check him out at Michael Franzese, Twitter, Facebook , YouTube, and even his new collection of Franzese Wine.

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0:00.0	What was the first time growing up that you knew that you were in a special kind of family?
0:18.6	Well, you know, it was strange.
0:20.2	My dad, during the Colombo of the Galloprofachi War, which was in the early 50s, I'll never
0:27.9	forget.
0:28.9	My dad had moved us out of our house in Brooklyn, me and my mom.
0:32.6	And we were at my grandmother's house in Long Island.
0:35.9	And my dad had been gone for a couple of days, and I was probably five years old when
0:39.7	this happened.
0:40.7	But you know how some things just stand out in your head?
0:42.9	I never forgot this.
0:44.9	And all of a sudden, one morning, my dad came to the house and he hadn't shaved in days
0:50.4	and he had a heavy beard to begin with.
0:52.7	And his right-hand guy, Joey Brancotta, was on the porch in kind of standing guard.
0:57.8	I noticed that.
0:58.8	I don't know what he was doing up there, but it was strange that he didn't come in because
1:02.3	I knew him as Uncle Joey.
1:04.2	And I saw my dad hug my mom, and she was emotional.
1:08.0	She was crying.
1:09.0	And then he came over to me and hugged me and just asked me how I was doing.
1:12.9	And he was probably 15 to 20 minutes, and then he left.
1:16.5	And it always stuck out my mind, like, what was going on?
1:19.3	Where was that going?
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