Michael Hechtman at the New
York Post offers a piece on a 100-year-old mobster released from prison.
Geriatric gangster John
“Sonny’’ Franzese — the oldest guest of the federal prison system — is a free
man at the age of 100.
The Colombo family underboss
was rolled out of the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts in a wheelchair
Friday and headed to the home of his daughter in Brooklyn, Newsday reported.
At the age of 93, he was
sentenced to eight years in prison for shaking d own the Hustler and Penthouse
strip clubs in Manhattan.
Authorities said at the time
the doddering don — whom they believed responsible for the murders of between
50 and 100 people — could be released at the age of 100 if he behaved himself
in the lockup.
Assistant US Attorney
Cristina Posa doubted Franzese would live that long. She told Judge Brian
Cogan, who sentenced him, that “for him to die now as a criminal in jail is not
an inappropriate response to the lifestyle he lived.”
Posa added, “He is largely
responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.’’
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