His mother came from wealth - country clubs, private docks, a grandfather who built an empire. His father came from the streets of Farmingdale, Long Island - motorcycle crews, double lives, and a world that ran on its own rules. In 1995, those two worlds collided and destroyed everything. His father was arrested. His mother beaten nearly to death. And just like that, Cory's childhood was over.
What followed was decades of survival - chasing his father to Florida, sitting with him in prison every Saturday, coming home to nothing, teaching himself to read as an adult, grinding his way from holding a stop-and-slow sign in a ditch to becoming a journeyman foreman and then a manager at one of the country's largest utility companies. And then walking away from all of it to build something of his own.