As far as the Joey Gallo hit goes. Franzese does know the correct answer. He's not an idiot. He was already about 20 years old at the time. He was a college kid, but everybody in NYC remembers the incident. He probably just misspoke or got mixed up in his recitation of it.

But as far as the attempt on Little Vic? Franzese went bad in December, 1985. He was way off the scene by early 1986, and NOT in contact with anybody except the feds.

The incident with Orena happened in late 1990, early 1991. So its way after Franzese had gone to California, and was hiding out from his old friends who wanted to hit him in the head.

He knows as much about the "3rd Colombo War" as the man in the moon. He wasn't even on speaking terms with his old man then. In fact, Sonny was in prison at the time anyway.