NEW YORK (AP) — A 95-year-old mob boss who authorities say boasted about killing 60 people in a lifetime of crime must serve his eight-year prison sentence after his racketeering conspiracy conviction ...
It may be one of the ultimate betrayals in mob history, and certainly there have been no shortage of them. There was of course the very famous one: Gambino Underboss Sammy the Bull” Gravano turning on ...
Family divisions are resurfacing in the run-up to Friday's scheduled sentencing of mob legend John "Sonny" Franzese, the former Colombo family underboss from Roslyn who was Long Island's most infamous ...
The story line of Colombo family underboss John “Sonny” Franzese, 93, of New York reads something like this: He knew Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. He got booted from the Army in World War II for ...
At 93, mobster John “Sonny” Franzese — the underboss of the Colombo crime family — had a hard time staying awake during his racketeering trial in federal court in Brooklyn, the Associated Press ...
The Italian opera known as USA v. Franzese is runnning in Brooklyn and there is more than enough good copy to fill many news stories. The best of them will come your way in a Voice column in this week ...
There were three generations of the legendary Franzese family in Brooklyn federal court this morning. Patriarch John “Sonny” Franzese, the veteran Colombo crime family underboss who once ran a few ...
NEW YORK — If John “Sonny” Franzese — once known as a tough-talking wiseguy, Frank Sinatra acquaintance and porn industry investor — is upset about his son betraying him, he hasn’t shown it. In fact, ...