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John Franzese......
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07/30/13 08:49 PM
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I was just reading up a little bit about John Franzese, (Michael's father). The guy seems to have a sterling record as a mobster, but I have to keep asking is why he is still listed as the Columbo UB. He's 96-years-old and in Prison (until he'll be 100), I doubt the guy has much of a role anymore.
Why hasn't he been shelved if he hasn't already?
Also, he's listed as a producer in Danny Provenzano's movie This Thing of Ours. Everything I've heard about Danny is that he's a wannabe who claims made status to promote his horrible movies. John's backing of a very public wannabe's mafia-themed film should be a black-mark, if not a violation omerta and should be a double-black mark considering his son's bad-mouthing of former associates.
Can anyone speak to this?
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Re: John Franzese......
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Funny story I have about Franzese, my family went to the same church as Michael and my aunt and Michael were confirmed on the same day. My other aunt who was 18 at the time was dating a 20 something NYDP detective, who went with her that day to watch her sister be confirmed. Sonny knew my grandfather and uncle, my uncle might of been connected MAYBE but my grandfather wasn't, anyways Sonny and his family sat with my family and he just so happened to sit next to my aunts boyfriend the cop. Now this is 1963-64 when he was in my opinion at the height of his power. Now the NYPD Officer didn't know who Sonny was from Peter, but anyways after the ceremony all the families go outside the church to meet up with their kids to take pictures and as soon as my aunt and her boyfriend got outside the doors two FBI agents scooped up her boyfriend, brought him to headquarters and grilled him on why he was sitting next to Sonny Franzese. They followed him to the church, looked at who he was with inside the church, than went out and took down the lisence plate numbers of the cars of the people he was sitting with and saw that the car of the guy he was sitting with was an NYPD Detective, goes to show the type of scrutinity these guys faced post- Appalachin,Valachi.
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Re: John Franzese......
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+1.
Prison doesn't = being shelved. Hence the position of 'acting'
Being shelved is post you fucking up somehow. It means you're not to do business with or for the family, to be ignored.
That ain't happening to Sonny. Makes sense, I thought "being shelved" could refer to either/or retirement or banishment from LCN, hence the confusion. This guy sounds the real deal, thanks for the information guys. There's conflicting reports of his age, I have some saying he was born in 1917, but others say 1919. He gets out in 2017, so he'll be either 98 or 100 depending on what source you believe.
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this, hey, thats great. But it's very, very unpredictable. There are so many ways you can screw it up.-Paul Castellano (he would know)
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Re: John Franzese......
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70 plus years of the life a real legend
From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.
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Re: John Franzese......
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Some more interesting info about Sonny, some journalists are saying that he may have been set up by the police in that bank robbery case he went down for in 1970. http://cosa-nostra-news.blogspot.com/2011/03/missing-letter-describes-fate-of.html
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