A new, unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra: The Life, includes “several accounts linking the legendary singer to organized crime,” including one such account by his “Rat Packl” friends, Jerry Lewis, according to a Reuters wire story. In the book, which is by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, Lewis says carried money for the Mafia “”He volunteered to be a messenger for them. And he almost got caught once . . . In New York.” Lewis told the authors that “Sinatra was going through customs with a briefcase containing ‘three and a half million in fifties’ and that customs officials opened the case. But due to crowds jostling for a glimpse of the star, officials aborted their search. Otherwise, Lewis said, ‘We would never have heard of him again.'” A New York Daily News report on the book by Corky Siemaszko says that in addition to being a “Mob bagman,” authors “Summers and Swan cite several other examples where Sinatra allegedly benefited from having godfathers like [Lucky] Luciano and Sam Giancana on his side,” such as one story saying Sinatra’s attempts to “set himself up in Las Vegas” were blocked by Bugsy Siegel. Sinatra complained to Luciano, and “Siegel was sentenced to death.” The book will be released May 16 from Knopf.