Personally i think Franzese is full of shit. He wasn't making no 40 mil a month, that money got split up among different guys. I think the feds put a figure of 14 mil he made total and while that number might not be exact i bet it's close.
You think he would be doing his bullshit speeches and hocking those video's he used to sell on the religous cable stations at 3am if he had 50 mil stashed away. I don't doubt he has a few bucks put away but i don't buy the numbers being tossed around. It wasn't his scam, it was the russians who cut the mob in for protection.
according to the fbi and irs, the gas tax scammers were stealing over one billion dollars per year. the mafias cut was est at $250 million per year. the colombos and genovese were the first families to get a cut from the russians.
