Decorate Vietnam Homeless Veteran Turns Down Millions?

Homeless vet could get $1M in injury suit but won’t go to court 
New York Post
By Laura Italiano
March 16, 2015

Anthony Franzese

“He has a traumatic brain injury and psychosis,” Coletta said. “It’s by the grace of God that he’s still alive.”

A homeless Vietnam veteran with a severe brain injury — suffered when an air conditioner fell on him — has miraculously been found, still alive, by the NYPD.

Decorated war hero Anthony Franzese has at least a million dollars coming his way via a pending lawsuit against the East Village apartment complex that let the air conditioner topple out a window and onto his head in 2010.

But Franzese, 73, remains severely traumatized and is now insisting he wants nothing to do with the seven-figure negligence payout that would easily be his if he would just agree to come to court, his frustrated lawyer told The Post.

Instead, on Monday, the lawyer is going to Manhattan Supreme Court — alone, but on Franzese’s behalf — in hopes that he can convince a judge to compel the detective who found Franzese to bring him in off the streets.

Franzese is too mentally troubled to make decisions without a guardian or conservator, the lawyer argues.
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