[Leaning Right]

How accurate is his Mafia support...

I'm no expert on the matter. But from what I know, Sinatra was a decent guy, with a big heart. He quietly supported a lot of his colleagues who had fallen on hard times, Lee J. Cobb being one of those.

But Sinatra was also an unsophisticated man. He had an admiration for the Mafia, much as an unsophisticated German might have had an admiration for the Nazis.

[ErnBatavia]

Here in the Coachella Valley, where he lived out his late years, he became quite the philanthropist...and Barbara has continued that tradition.

I never cared for him one bit, but he gets a big gold star in the charitability category.