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Photograph was edited for publication purposes.Jack Dragna was the leader of the Sicilian Mafia who was active in both Italy and the United States. He was involved in bootlegging in California during the Prohibition Era. In 1931, he succeeded Joseph Ardizzone as the boss of the Los Angeles crime family after Ardizzone's mysterious disappearance and death. Dragna was dubbed the "Capone of Los ...
15 de abr. de 2023 · Jack Dragna from a Los Angeles Police Department Mug Shot - 1946 Jack Dragna, born Giacomo Tommaso or Ignazio Dragna in Corleone, Sicily, in 1891, was a notorious American mobster who rose to power in the early 20th century, leading one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Southern California. After immigrating to the United…
Jack Dragna tomó el control de la familia tras la muerte de Ardizzone en 1931, e hizo las paces con el Sindicato Nacional de la Mafia. Además, su hermano Tom Dragna fue nombrado su consigliere, mientras que su sobrino Louis Tom Dragna se convirtió en made man en 1947. Dragna fue el jefe más exitoso que tuvo la familia de Los Ángeles.
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.Jack Dragna was the leader of the Sicilian Mafia who was active in both Italy and the United States. He was involved in bootlegging in California during the Prohibition Era. In 1931, he succeeded Joseph Ardizzone as the boss of the Los Angeles crime family after Ardizzone's mysterious disappearance and death.
The misconception that Jack Dragna and Ben Siegel were rivals has largely been popularized by the Mickey Cohen autobiography, In My Own Words (1975). But Mickey had been lying to readers since at least 1949; that's the year he regurgitated his life story to reporters of the LA Daily. But as the feds have less-than-delicately noted in Mickey’s federal files, the ruse he sold reporters fails ...
The great-grandson of late Los Angeles crime boss Jack Dragna, Dr. J. Michael Niotta writes and lectures about southern California organized crime history. He is the author of The Los Angeles Sugar Ring (2017), The Fight Abroad and the Fear Back Home (2019), and Los Angeles Underworld (2021).
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.Jack Dragna was the leader of the Sicilian Mafia who was active in both Italy and the United States. He was involved in bootlegging in California during the Prohibition Era. In 1931, he succeeded Joseph Ardizzone as the boss of the Los Angeles crime family after Ardizzone's mysterious disappearance and death. Dragna was dubbed the "Capone of Los ...
