Who was the biggest earner in the history of the mob? I know mike Franzese was making tens of millions of dollars a month from his gas scam. He says he was making 30 to 40 mil a month. Fat tony Salerno was making up to 50 mil a year off of his gambling operations I believe it was in the 50s. The gambino family was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in the 50s so there must've been some real heavy earners there. Was there ever any earners in the mob who made just a made just as much money as Franzese or maybe more? Or is Franzese the biggest earner the mafia has ever seen.