Former mobster Michael Franzese is all over the news, after he admitted the Colombo crime family once trapped a former New York Jets player to blow games in exchange for paying off his debt.
In a recent interview, Franzese recounted how a New York Jets player, whom he declined to name, became entangled in a high-stakes gambling operation run by the mob during the 1980s. Franzese said the player initially owed just $50,000, but a mob-connected bookmaker saw an opportunity to tighten the grip.
“He’s a bad gambler,” Franzese recalled the bookmaker saying. “Let him get…