Serpiente remember the sweatshops in queens owned by jimmy Burke? Mikey franzese played a role in burke's rackets since Burke tried his hand at everything including counterfeit. Heard that Burke was one of a few ppl who started counterfeiting clothes in queens. But Mikey's vice was craps and was known to lose heavily he may have made a million dollars in a day but he could have lost it all AC the same night. Not to mention that he thought he was Steven Spielberg waisting even more money in films. The franzese's did make money off of Debbie does Dallas. IMHO franzese is pure bullshit starting will the gas scam. At that time it was known as Jew "juice" scam was one of the many names for it. Most of the Jewish Ukrainians were ex- professors franzese was a loser who couldn't even get into medicine even with his fathers connections he was that stupid. The real person who made money is sonny. Mikey's brother worked out at Kingsway gym and vended steroids also said that his brother was a bullshitter. Sonny was in and out of jail his entire life so who better to collect than is boy. Another rumour that floated around Brooklyn was that Mikey skimmed money from Persico and was sent for barely making it out alive. It's interesting that he had all this money while his mother was charged with credit card fraud and his brother had a dissibility check. Don't get me started but his wife had a black belt in shopping, That made Victoria Gotti look like a patron to the dollar tree. While we were all freezing our tootsies in Brooklyn they were on a private jet to Florida. Plus there were gomadas up the ying yang. Not he doesn't got money just not like he claims to have made. Mikey is a dismal fuck once you get to know him, which is why he spared Henry hills life becos hill was the only one to bring him back up imo. Before he married that Mexican [BadWord] all he ever talked about wuz her all day and night. So tell me how the fuck could he pull off big scams thinking about her?