John (Sonny) Franzese, the charismatic and fearsome longtime Colombo underboss, died Sunday after a brief illness at the age of 103, according to family members. He died in a veterans hospital in ...

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster John "Sonny" Franzese to prison. Witness protection brought the son — now Mat Pazzarelli — to Indianapolis, where he ...

Some habits die hard. An ex-Colombo family mobster who left the Mafia to become a born-again Christian motivational speaker was busted in Tennessee for writing bad checks, officials said Monday. Mi… ...

Patriarch John “Sonny” Franzese, the veteran Colombo crime family underboss... POLITICS. Party Like It’s 1992 ... The Uncertain Business of Christmas Tree Peddling. By Ruthie Kornblatt ...

The aged and infirm underboss of the Colombo crime family was sentenced today to eight years in prison for shaking down the Hustler and Penthouse strip clubs in Manhattan. John “Sonny” … ...

Legendary New York mobster John “Sonny” Franzese, the former underboss of one of the Colombo Crime Family, has died at 103.

Now 102 years old, John (Sonny) Franzese, the longtime underboss of the Colombo crime family, is the epitome of the old-style crime chieftain. Despite the entreaties of FBI agents and a 50-year ...

Legendary Colombo crime family mobster John “Sonny” Franzese, who hung out with Frank Sinatra and befriended Marilyn Monroe before a bank robbery conviction eventually made him the nation’s ...

Joyce G. Franzese. Fort Myers - Joyce G. Franzese, a resident of Fort Myers and Cape Coral, FL since 1960, passed away at her home surrounded by her loving family Friday, September 3, 2021.

Franzese, a reputed Colombo crime family underboss reported to be the oldest inmate in the federal prison system was released Friday, June 23, 2017, at the age of 100.

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 ...