He was a gopher for the Genovese family with the Pecora brothers, and the Prisco's according to the Angelo Prisco tape. By the 1970's, he was hanging around Jimmy Ran of the Colombos, this is James Randazzo who was killed in the early 1990's, Vincent attended his funeral, Ran introduced him to a member of ther Persico family who inturn helpped him make contacts with some movie people, but he lacked skills that they were looking for. By the 1980's, he was hanging around with members of the Gambino family crew of Sisca. Frank Vincent did not really start getting the big brakes into show business until he hooked up with Joe Pesci.