Former Colombo capo Michael Franzese said he was made on Oct. 31, 1975.
On Long Island especially the Long Island of the 1960s, decades before Amy Fisher shot Mary Joe at Joe Buttofuoco s Massapequa home, making all us Long Island natives (aka Long Islanders) look like dicks especially after Ernest Rupolo s stabbed and shot-up body was recovered from the beach at Jamaica Bay, Queens in August 1964 (his feet had been weighted down with cement blocks, the proverbial concrete shoes), most Long Islanders generally believed that John Sonny Franzese was the major Mafia power in the Northeast United States. Never mind that Sonny most likely had nothing whatsoever to do with Rupolo.