NEWNow you can listen to Fox News articles!
A famous New York mob became the target of the federal government after Marilyn Monroe mentioned her name during a meeting with Robert F. Kennedy, her son said.
Appearing on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast, former Colombo crime family captain Michael Franzese detailed the bombshell account passed down by his late father, John “Sonny” Franzese.
Franzese said Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to target Franzese’s father after Marilyn Monroe spoke about the mob during her meeting with Kennedy. Franzese said her father said he was dating Monroe after meeting her at Manhattan’s Stork Club.
“Now my dad is telling me this, of course, he goes with Bobby Kennedy,” Franzese said of the superstar. “And he said, ‘One night they were happy together, and he called my name.’
MARILYN MONROE ‘COULD BE IN TROUBLE,’ JACKIE KENNEDY WARNED JFK: AUTHOR
John “Sonny” Franzese was photographed in police custody on April 12, 1966, in New York City. (Judd Mehlman/New York Daily News via Getty Images)
“He said at that time [Kennedy] he talked to Hoover on the phone, he said, ‘I don’t know who this Sonny boy is, but you put him in jail.’
Franzese, one of the leading Mafia figures to publicly leave organized crime, said his father discussed the matter after Franzese’s mother died in 2012.
He said the conversation started after he asked his father why agents of the organization were always guarding their house instead of focusing on other Mafia figures.
FOX NATION IS OFFERING SUBSCRIBERS AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE WITH TWO NEW JOINS ON AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR SHOWS.
Marilyn Monroe arrived at the premiere of the film “There’s No Business Like Show Business” in 1954. (M. Garrett/Murray Garrett/Getty Images)
“I said, ‘Why you? I mean Colombo was there, all these other guys, Genovese, but you?’ “Said Franzese. “I asked him that for the first time. He said to me, ‘I didn’t want to tell you when your mother was alive, because I respect her.’“
Franzese said the suspicions of his father being identified make sense in retrospect.
DEA AGENTS DID NOT DISCLOSE PABLO ESCOBAR’S HOME PHONE WHEN HE ORDERED TO BE TORTURED WHILE CALLING WITH HIS WIFE.
“I said, ‘You know what, Dad, I know you’re a little self-deprecating, but that makes sense,'” Franzese said. “I don’t know if you remember at that time, J. Edgar Hoover would not even admit that the Mafia existed because there was something in him at that time.”
Former Mafia boss Michael Franzese joins Sean Hannity on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast to discuss how he ran a $10 billion tax scam. (Screenshot/Live with Sean Hannity)
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS PROGRAM
Sonny Franzese was arrested in 1967 and later convicted of planning numerous bank robberies across the country. He was sentenced to 50 years in state prison but was eventually paroled. In 2011, he was again sentenced to prison for conspiracy. He died in 2020 at the age of 103.
Franzese also detailed his gas tax plan, which he said brings in millions of dollars each week. He said the family was collecting gas tax without paying the government and that he himself was bringing home about $3 million to $4 million a week.
