Originally Posted by Zavattoni
Originally Posted by JC
Originally Posted by Revis_Island
Do you all feel Franzese would’ve been a great boss or do you think he would’ve been a bust?


Sonny could never stay out of jail and had two rat sons, he would have been a horrible boss. He stayed true to his oath but that's about the best thing that he did, he definitely would not have been a good boss. I don't think that Michael would have ever gotten close, there were a lot of sharks in that family and I doubt that Michael could have climbed over them to get to the top.


I read something months ago that Micheal and Ally Boy were being groomed for the two top spots.


I think I saw or heard that from somewhere too. The thing is, only a few mobsters really wanted to legitimize all of their business dealings and becoming business magnates. I think that by the time Michael Franzese’s era came around, the mob had missed that window to really expand and become as powerful as they could’ve been had they stayed on the same trajectory they were on in the 1930s-1950s.