by PolackTony » Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:27 pm
B. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:48 pm
Maybe Galante spoke on his behalf to get his name cleared since it sounds like Sonny Franzese was trying to blackball him. There have been examples of members from other Families sponsoring someone into a different group (John Misuraca with San Jose for example) but I doubt this took place in 1970s NYC, especially with Galante.
Great write-up. Always found it interesting Franzese was such a rising star in the 1970s then faded in the 1980s before his death.
Yeah, another great bio. Doesn’t look like there was any personal tie between Turi Franzese and Galante, but they were from the same (broadly general) part of town so who knows. As JD details, CI accounts painted him as a respected associate but then it seems that his induction was somewhat controversial. It could be some other issue that we otherwise don’t know about, but the fact that he was only half-Ital jumped out at me. We know the NYC Families relaxed the full Ital rule when they re-opened the books in ‘76, but I can imagine that it still would have been controversial for a lot of guys. Or, at least, as we see with a lot of discourse around the rules, guys who didn’t like him for other reasons could well have weaponize it as ammunition against him. Just speculating, of course, as none of the sources that JD discussed reported what the issue was that guys had with Franzese being inducted.
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Maybe Galante spoke on his behalf to get his name cleared since it sounds like Sonny Franzese was trying to blackball him. There have been examples of members from other Families sponsoring someone into a different group (John Misuraca with San Jose for example) but I doubt this took place in 1970s NYC, especially with Galante.
Great write-up. Always found it interesting Franzese was such a rising star in the 1970s then faded in the 1980s before his death.
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Yeah, another great bio. Doesn’t look like there was any personal tie between Turi Franzese and Galante, but they were from the same (broadly general) part of town so who knows. As JD details, CI accounts painted him as a respected associate but then it seems that his induction was somewhat controversial. It could be some other issue that we otherwise don’t know about, but the fact that he was only half-Ital jumped out at me. We know the NYC Families relaxed the full Ital rule when they re-opened the books in ‘76, but I can imagine that it still would have been controversial for a lot of guys. Or, at least, as we see with a lot of discourse around the rules, guys who didn’t like him for other reasons could well have weaponize it as ammunition against him. Just speculating, of course, as none of the sources that JD discussed reported what the issue was that guys had with Franzese being inducted.