Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The series features interviews with former FBI agents and mobsters, including Michael Franzese. Franzese worked for the Colombo ...

Valley >> Former mob boss Michael Franzese never expected that he would go from masterminding racketeering operations for the Mafia to ministering in churches, but that’s exactly what he ended up ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - When Michael Franzese was 22 years old he decided to follow in his father's footsteps. That would have been fine if his father was a banker or a mechanic or a salesman but ...

“Did I live in fear? No. Was I cautious? Absolutely… I never sold my former associates short — I knew they were very capable.” In a recent phone interview, former “made man” and capo for New York’s ...

Michael Franzese, 72, was a captain in the Colombo crime gang (Picture: Getty/Rex) A former Mafia boss who made millions of dollars at the height of his power before risking death by walking away from ...

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The wise guy grew up as the son of the notorious Underboss of New York’s violent and feared Colombo crime family and was named as one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone ...