Did Sonny Franzese Flirt with S. J. Peddie

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Gary talks with Sandra “S.J.” Peddie about her series of interviews and subsequent book on John Franzese aka Sonny Franzese. This is the story of a Colombo crime family underboss John “Sonny” Franzese. Franzese gave Ms. Peddie, an award-winning author, unprecedented access to his life in interviews both before and after his release from federal prison at age 102. FBI Director Herbert Hoover had once ordered an all-out assault to put Sonny Franzese in prison. Franzese was feared, loved, and most importantly respected by other New York mobsters during his lifetime of criminal activity. We learn that the famous Copacabana club staff always made sure he had a table even if they had to set a table on the stage. He became the manager and friend Bobbie Darrin, the only singer Sinatra envied. Ms. Peddie tells all the inside stories as a teaser to her well-received book Sonny: The Last of the Old-Time Bosses John “Sonny” Franzese. If you want to get the book, click on the highlighted title. Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.
0:20.7	Welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:24.9	I have a really interesting story today.
0:29.6	I stumbled across a book or maybe somebody got hold of me.
0:33.4	Anyhow, I found out a book about John Sonny Franchise and I always was curious about him.
0:39.1	I did a small show on him when he died. I believe he was the oldest living gangster that was
0:43.6	in penitentiary and then died, got out and died at like 103. And he's just an interesting guy.
0:51.2	You know, we all know that Michael Franchise, his son has a really
0:57.7	popular YouTube show, and he's got his fingers and all kinds of businesses. He had a big
1:04.5	fight with Sammy the Bull Gravano, if you want to believe that big fight. You know what I always thought?
1:12.3	What if these mob guys,
1:18.3	there's so many mob guys with podcast and YouTube channels, what if one of like gets mad at the other and he puts a hit out on it because he thinks the guy is moving in on his business or
1:22.9	something else. I mean, does that be light imitating art, right?
1:29.7	Sandra Petty, welcome.
1:33.8	She is the author of the last old-time mafia bosses.
1:38.6	Oh, the last of the old-time mafia bosses, John Sonny Pranchez.
1:41.7	Sunny is the actual title, and you can see it over a shoulder there.
1:46.1	And folks, here is, you're on YouTube, there it is so anyhow welcome sonda and thank you and and by the way if you look at the book it's by s j petty
1:53.0	not sandra petty because my editor has never edited a mob book by a woman and he wasn't sure it would
1:59.8	sell oh interesting you know i wonder when i saw that s j i'm thinking back to the old a mob book by a woman. Oh, and he wasn't sure it would sell. Oh,
2:01.4	interesting.
2:01.7	You know,
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