Claim: Sonny Franzese was acquitted of murder, he was convicted in Albany by judge Jacob Mishler who was born in 1911.
Evidence: Franzese was later acquitted of the murder. However, on March 3, 1967, Franzese was convicted in Albany, New York of masterminding a series of four bank robberies across the country in 1965, and was finally sentenced to 50 years in prison at United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, by judge Jacob Mishler in 1970, after several denied appeals. Jacob Mishler (April 20, 1911 – January 26, 2004) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.