US mobster, 93, gets 8-year prison term

NEW YORK - NEW York mobster John 'Sonny' Franzese, who is 93, likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for extortion, a court official said. A lieutenant in the Gambino clan - one of five mafia families in New York - Franzese was sentenced to 96 months in prison and ordered to pay US$116,000 (S$149,379) in restitution, the ...