In a 1965 article, "The Hood in the Neighborhood," Newsday chronicled the life and times of Roslyn's John "Sonny" Franzese - a suburban commuter with a well-manicured lawn whose gangland power ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — By 2019, Sonny Franzese was out of prison and living in a nursing home. He was 102 years old and his health was declining. Meanwhile in Indianapolis, his son John Franzese leaned ...

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 ...

Defense attorneys began cross-examining government witness John Franzese Jr. Thursday, portraying the former crack-cocaine addict as someone who never really had an insider's view of New York's ...

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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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese is so old, he knew Frank Sinatra in his heyday. He's so old, his recent extortion trial became nap time — even when his turncoat son took the ...