Frank Annunzio, who represented Chicago in Congress, was linked to the mob, his FBI file shows

The late U.S. Rep. Frank Annunzio, the longtime Chicago Democratic member of Congress, in 1990. (AP)

Not long before his death in 2001 at 86, former U.S. Rep. Frank Annunzio “lent his name” to a campaign against “The Sopranos,” the acclaimed HBO series about a fictional mob family that some critics said presented an unfair portrait of Italian Americans.

According to Annunzio’s FBI file, recently obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, sources told agents over the years that the longtime congressman and Chicago Machine Democrat “frequently associated with” top La Cosa Nostra figures and “is possibly an LCN member himself.”