In his book, Franzese said the first mobster to muscle in was Genovese soldier, Joe "Joe Glitz" Galizia. He was supposedly very powerful, often going over his capos head' answering direct to Chin ( Chin seemed to do this with the BIGGEST earners, just an observation.....)

It was actually one of his underlings fault, Lawrence Iorrizo, he smacked a guy named Shelly Levine I think, who was big in gas bootlegging and Franzese was trying to get him to be under him. But his underling throws his weight around, smacked the guy, he ran to the Genovese, and as a courtesy, they asked Michael to help them get started....



I think after he died, an Franzese was locked up, there was a mob panel that controlled it, Vic Orena got the Gambinos on it, they put in Anthony Morelli, the Genovese added Pagano, Casso represented the Luchesses, of course this was the exclusion period for the Bonnanos, the Massino era, so no one for them...