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Convicted mob boss John ‘Sonny’ Franzese is so old, he knew Frank Sinatra in his heyday. He’s so old, his recent extortion trial became nap time — even when his turncoat son took the witness stand against him.

Franzese also is so old that, if federal prosecutors have their way, he’s almost certain to die behind bars.

To the dismay of supporters who insist the frail 93-year-old is a decrepit shadow of his former self, the government has asked a judge in federal court in Brooklyn to sentence him Friday to 12 years or more in prison.

The reputed underboss of the Colombo organized crime family remains a remorseless mobster who deserves no mercy, ‘having denied so many of his victims the opportunity to live out their lives safely and securely with their families,’ prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.

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The defense says Franzese, who suffers from an array of ailments, should be allowed to ‘live out the remaining few years or months with his family.’

Franzese’s lawyer has sought to portray the nonagenarian as a harmless relic from ‘the age of Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson and maybe the age of George Washington.’

According to Mafia lore, he was a regular at the Copacabana nightclub, where he hobnobbed with Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., and also once had a stake in the classic porn film ‘Deep Throat.’

But the government says Franzese’s true legacy is something more akin to ‘Goodfellas.’

Franzese’s life of crime began in 1938, while he was still a teenager, with an assault arrest. Prosecutors say he was kicked out of the Army four years later after displaying ‘homicidal tendencies.’

In 1947, court papers say, he raped a waitress in a garage. In 1966, he beat a murder charge accusing him of killing a rival and dumping the body — cement blocks chained to the feet — into a bay.

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Convicted mob boss John ‘Sonny’ Franzese