America's Oldest Mobster Finally Breaks His Silence
Globe|April 22, 2019

102-year-old Colombo crime kingpin brags about refusing to rat

America's Oldest Mobster Finally Breaks His Silence

NOTORIOUS mobster John “Sonny” Franzese spent decades behind bars after refusing to rat on his gangland pals. But the 102-year-old tough guy is now flapping his gums for the first time since his 2017 release from the big house!

Though officials claim the Colombo crime family underboss whacked more than 60 people and bragged about stuffing body parts down garbage disposals, the by-the-book mafioso insists: “I hurt nobody that was innocent!”

The wheelchair-bound wiseguy was the oldest jailbird in the U.S. penal system until he was sprung from the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass., at age 100.

This story is from the April 22, 2019 edition of Globe.

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