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Criminal

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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He'd been active in the Colombo crime family since the 1960s. And then, when he was 93, he was given an 8-year sentence. The evidence that helped convict him came from the last person he expected to wear a wire. For a transcript of this episode, send an email to [email protected] with the episode name and number. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Please review us on Apple Podcasts! It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

1:00.0

I remember there was one particular classroom Mrs Kramer

1:06.1

allowed this girl to do current event articles on my father. It was really bad

1:12.4

and my mother went crazy and she went and confronted the teacher.

1:19.1

I don't think she ever really liked me, Mrs. Kramer.

1:22.4

I surmised to this day that she didn't like me because of my

1:27.2

family. This is John Francise Jr. He was born in 1960 on the north shore of Long Island. His father,

1:36.9

John Sunny Francis, was the longtime under-boss for the Colombo Crime Family,

1:42.3

one of the so-called five families of New York.

1:46.0

There's never been a guy like Sunny, an FBI agent once said.

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