Lol yeah Franzese is basically the same as someone like Sharpton. They're all first class stool pigeons and the government just allows them to grift.
Of course everyone snitches these days. I mean, the Italian-American mafia has always been in the spotlights so their rats are widely publicized, but the same thing happens with the Black and Hispanic gangs or any other kind of organized crime these days: it's a stoolie fest all around. And it's not difficult to see why: in the past a snitch would've ended up in the trunk of a crappy car with a crowbar inserted in his anus. These days snitches - especially high profile ones - are the ones that come out laughing. Of course they snitch, because they know they get off with a light sentence after which they can just continue being grifters without disturbance.