Sonny Franzese rape as mentioned in NY Post article :"In 1947, he raped a waitress in a garage."

Geriatric Colombo underboss John ‘Sonny’ Franzese sentenced to eight years in federal prison
By Mitchel MadduxJanuary 14, 2011 | 3:54pm
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John "Sonny" Franzese
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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” Franzese 93, devoted “a lifetime to organized crime” and is now unlikely to survive the prison term, given his deteriorating medical condition which includes chronic kidney disease and heart problems, Judge Brian Cogan said in Brooklyn federal court.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina Posa had urged the judge to give Franzese even more time behind bars for his racketeering and extortion convictions, arguing that the mobster “has literally gotten away with murder for decades.”
“He has never held an honest job one day of his life,” Posa told the judge. “He’s essentially lived as a parasite off the hard work of others by shaking them down.”
The judge’s sentence could represent the final chapter in Franzese’s storied and controversial life as a violent New York mobster who government officials suspect may be responsible for some 50-100 murders.
His criminal career began in the later years of the Great Depression and continued on for generations into the 21st Century, when he discussed having his own adult son murdered after learning that he had become an FBI informant and was wearing a “wire.”
Franzese troubled path dated back to an arrest for violent assault at age 19 in 1938, prosecutors say, and included his 1942 discharge from the Army at the height of World War II because he displayed “homicidal tendencies.”
In 1945, Franzese’s first wife divorced him, alleging that he “habitually threatened to disfigure her with a knife,” prosecutors say. Then in 1947, he raped a waitress in a garage. In 1966, Franzese was arrested for murdering a bookmaking rival and dumping his body in Jamaica Bay with cement blocks chained to his feet.
In recent weeks, Franzese’s family members have written numerous letters to the judge to emphasize a different side to a man they insist has fundamentally changed in later life.
His 21-year-old granddaughter, Kristen Franzese, described Franzese as “kind, considerate, warm, and funny.”
“When he is around family he just loves to tell jokes, watch baseball on television, nap, and tell stories about the past,” she wrote.
Another granddaughter, Maria Vanessa Scorsone had written to tell the judge about how Franzese warmed to his year-old great granddaughter.
Until two years ago, Scorsone wrote, Grandpa “was not really a part of our lives” and “he never had anything to do with children. Mostly he was in jail.”
Then he came to stay for a visit and met the baby, Scorsone wrote, “He seemingly melted in front of her,” Scorsone wrote. “I had never seen him happy before, but he was happy when he was with [our daughter]. This was not the man I had known.”
Before pronouncing sentence, the judge said that he believed the relatives’ stories and that Franzese – in poor health and reaching the final stages of his life – had become “a changed person.”
Franzese’s defense attorney, Richard Lind, had asked the judge for a sharp reduction in the sentence, saying that the mobster “was not a risk to the public at this point.”
Lind said that despite coming across as gruff and menacing in the FBI’s secretly recorded tapes, Franzese was actually “extremely insecure and vulnerable to people who want to prey on him.”
When Franzese was asked by the judge if he wanted to address the court, he mumbled to his attorney and appeared to ask whether he should point out the his perceived unfair treatment at the hands of the government.
But his defense attorney abruptly cut him off.
“He has nothing to say, judge.”
mmaddux@nypost.com
http://nypost.com/2011/01/14/geriatric-c...federal-prison/

I guess when Sonny comes out of prison maybe he should focus on persuing a Movie career ala Mike Tyson. Only in America can a convicted rapist be loved by Hollywood!

What a classy guy!

Only the best for him and his two Rat sons! LOL

This guy Christy Tick really did rape an underage girl or boy?

I think being cold blooded and vicious to even innocents are good attributes for a gangster to have and whats more cold blooded and vicious than rape.

Double rape

"In recent weeks, Franzese’s family members have written numerous letters to the judge to emphasize a different side to a man they insist has fundamentally changed in later life.
His 21-year-old granddaughter, Kristen Franzese, described Franzese as “kind, considerate, warm, and funny.”
“When he is around family he just loves to tell jokes, watch baseball on television, nap, and tell stories about the past,” she wrote.
Another granddaughter, Maria Vanessa Scorsone had written to tell the judge about how Franzese warmed to his year-old great granddaughter."

SO FUCKING WHAT!

Gengis Khan, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler all had redeeming qualities too. Nobody, no matter how evil they are, shuffles around muttering "brains.... must eat brains" like a half-cocked Frankenstein.

Franzese is a mutt and he should have been given a life sentence a long time ago.

The sob stories you hear about these bastards angers me so much.

You have poor Kelsey Grammar having to deal with some mongrel appealing his punishment every 5 years and saying he's a changed, remorseful man; after raping his sister and butchering her over a period of several hours.

If you have "remorse" or if you are a changed man, you accept and come to terms with your punishment, make peace with your God, and you DO NOT add to someone's misery and pain by making them constantly relive the most traumatic period of their life by appealing every 5 years.

Rant over.

Well said Moe_Tilden. Well said!

Well said. Someone who truly felt remorse, and had become a "changed" man, would recognize the scope of their crime and feel they deserved to remain in prison and accept their full punishment.

Looks like he was released on the 19th.

http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

He must literally be at death's door. His original release date was 2050 or something like that. And the Feds just don't guys like him out early. I'm betting he has a full diaper right about now.

Carmine Persico is probably saying hey what about me haha

The odds of him leaving prison with a beating heart are right up there with Charles Manson's .

it's amazing they even allow that nut Parole hearings.....

I'm sure he's on death's door just like Jerry Lang was when he was released.

man who knows but it does say he was released. what if hes one of those perfectly fine old guys still wants to drive. creas got a new consig. wonder if he still has all his cash from his glory days in the 60tys to when he went to jail in 87. I remember reading the parole board told him no way will you ever be released. shit acuple of them demeo guys might have a chance.

will scarfo get a shot hes only doing 65yrs Christy was doing 100. old federal parole you could get it after 10rs right? they shaved off jerry anguilo in boston 45yrs sentence he lived 2 years and crooked better then dying in the prison hospital. jerry lawyer antohny cardinal was constinty polling the parole board

Then they wouldn't have let him out. Not in a million years. The medical review that a lifer has to go through to get a compassionate release isn't just a routine physical. He'd have to fool a slew of government employed health professionals, a psychiatrist or two among them. Furnari can't be long for this world.

Yep chances are he wont see 2015

Federal prisoners are only available for parole in four situations:

(1) Those convicted of crimes before November, 1987, when the new federal parole restrictions were instituted.

(2) Those convicted of committing crimes before 1997 in the District of Columbia.

(3) Those serving time in military prisons.

(4) Those convicted of crimes who are members of a country involved with the U.S. in foreign treaty transfer cases.

A rapist....Another ''man of honor''

I bet he's stoked to be out in time to get the iPhone6.

Dies before years end is -$225

Lives into 2015 +$185

I'd like to take a $50 parlay that he makes it to 2015 but violates his conditions of parole.

Def prob about to see the grim reaper

Try -1000
+750

think I came up with the answer why he was realeased other then hes about to die. sometime in the late 80tys early 90tys they over turned the act of violence for chris tic who was not the consign in 1979 when galante was murder at the vote of the commission and I think doing his 100 yrs bid with no violent act other then the concrete club he wraps up in 1/4 or alittle over 27yrs. think that why Bruno got parole cause he wasn't on the commission.