93-Year-old Colombo Mobster Convicted in Brooklyn

brooklyn-sign1By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

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 reported.

To boot, he had to sit there while his own son — a former mobster turned government informant —  testified against him in a case in which he was charged with shaking down New York strip clubs and a pizzeria.

On Wednesday, a jury convicted the one-time acquaintance of Mr. Blues himself, Frank Sinatra.

AP reported that on the first day that his son John Franzese Jr., a former Colombo associate, testified against him, he dozed off briefly.

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