Michael Franzese, a former New York City mafia caporegime, tells Cleveland’s The Outlaws Radio Show in an excusive interview about the Mueller team’s attempt to shake him down during the Russia collusion investigation over his business ties to a Russian mobster who purchased condos in Trump Tower in the 1980s.
Franzese told The Outlaws the short interview went nowhere and noted his belief that the American government has begun acting like the mob. Franzese would know. He was a captain in the Colombo crime family for 20 years, at some point becoming a silent partner of Russian mobster David Bogatin in a gasoline tax scheme. In 1984 Bogatin paid $5.3 million in cash for five condos in Trump Tower, leading Mueller’s team to question Franzese during the Russia collusion investigation in an attempt, he believes, to weave a connection between Trump and Bogatin — and, presumably by extension, the Russian mob.
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