Colombo mobster Michael (Mickey) Souza, The Don of Screwups, now begging for witness protection

The Colombo crime family must really be going to the dogs if this is the type of muscle they’re recruiting.
Meet Michael (Mickey) Souza.
Before legendary Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese pricked Souza’s finger with a sterile diabetic needle in 2005 to make him a made man, Souza had built quite the fiasco-filled résumé.
There was the time [...]

Sonny Franzese Convicted Of Racketeering

Reputed Colombo underboss John “Sonny” Franzese has been convicted on federal racketeering charges involving, among other things, the shake down of NYC strip clubs and a Long Island pizzeria as reported by John Riley for Newsday.
On a historical note, the Colombo crime family long has been involved in the smut rackets — massage parlors, porn [...]

Mob scion Christopher Colombo making TV pitch for reality show about going straight

Christopher Colombo is finally getting a taste of “The Real World.”
After serving a year in prison for running a lucrative gambling operation, the youngest son of the late mob boss Joseph Colombo says he’s changing his ways and living on the up and up.
And he’s shopping a reality show about his transformation.
“What I do is [...]

Pub boss: Mafia goon Christopher Curanovic tried to jam screwdriver through my hand

The owner of East Village cocktail lounge Rue B testified Monday that a Mafia goon tried to jam a screwdriver through his hand in a violent mob shakedown.
Peter Dupre said he fended off the attack in his office by thug Christopher Curanovic, who was demanding $1,500 a week in protection money to be paid to [...]

Rat bares gangster’s ‘retire pay’

It’s the mob version of Social Security.
Geezer gangster John “Sonny” Franzese, 93, who is currently on trial in Brooklyn federal court for shaking down a couple of Manhattan strip clubs, banked on high-interest “shylock” loans to support him in his old age, an underling-turned-informant was heard saying on an FBI tape played in court yesterday.
“The [...]

Boss Son: A Bookfella

The turncoat son of a Mafia boss on trial in Brooklyn tried to spill the beans on his dad years before he turned star witness — but nobody was buying his story.
In an 80-page, tell-all book proposal, John Franzese Jr., who yesterday finished testifying at his dad’s federal racketeering trial, vented about the pain of [...]

Mobster gets into heated fight with his wife outside Brooklyn courtroom

He’s still a wiseguy after all these years.
Colombo underboss John “Sonny” Franzese got into a heated fight with his wife outside the Brooklyn courtroom where he is currently on trial for racketeering — and the war-of-words got ugly.
Cristina Capobianco Franzese, who has been separated from the mobster for the past two years, confronted her mobster [...]

Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese betrayed by son, who’ll testify against legendary mobster

Legendary Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese, who turned murder into an art form and whose name made foes shudder in fear, is about to get the biggest double cross of his life.
While he’s literally turned stoolies into mincemeat, the one set to betray the 93-year-old wiseguy in a courtroom Wednesday once held a special place [...]

Turncoat Son, Death Behind Bars, Haunt Sonny Franzese

After running the clock out for nearly two years, the end game has begun for John (Sonny) Franzese. And it won’t be fun. The legendary Colombo family wiseguy will be the first New York mobster to have his son testify against him.
He is not charged with murder, but his stated expertise as a mob hitman [...]

Suspected Colombo mob scion Michael Persico celebrates release from jail with pizza and pasta

Colombo crime scion Michael Persico had at least two things on his mind as he was released from jail on Wednesday night: pizza and pasta.

Of course, he planned to celebrate his freedom – secured with $5 million bail – at his own Bay Ridge restaurant, Bella Luna.
Persico, 53, spent more than two months behind bars [...]

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