There was a tough guy that worked with Persico called Pete the fruit he had fell out of favor with him and Pete moved to the flop house in the Bowery in the late 90's. Knew him before that however I don't know his real name. Anyway the fruit told me that the feud between Persico and the Franzese started when m.f started dissociating himself from paisan m.f in school told kids that he wasn't Italian. it stems from the heavy police presence he witnessed as a child. Persico didn't like outsiders or doing business with them. Fruit said that m.f had a union job in his teenage years given to him by his father as health and safety inspector on skyscrapers this where he met a young Donald Trump, now why would Pete lie.

HH worked with a Jewish guy called Dr. Al who sold pills behind Ratner's restaurant that area had a large Jewish presence at that time.your right about HH being a top earner.