The Mobster in Our Midst

Editor’s note

IndyStar became aware of Mat Pazzarelli – formerly John Franzese Jr., a New York City mob figure – from freelance writer Elizabeth Flynn, whose first-person account is also being published by IndyStar as a companion piece. “RAT’S MY BOY,” screamed the headline of a New York Franzese, once a feared member of the Colombo crime family, earned a 50-year prison sentence in the late 1960s for organizing a slew of bank 2017 Sonny was freed, the 100-year-old gangster allowed to spend his final days outside of the prison walls he’d known half his life. ‘The last time I saw my father, I was testifying against him in court’

John Franzese Jr., son of John “Sonny” Franzese of the Colombo crime family, was relocated to Indianapolis after testifying against his father.

Source: www.freep.com