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23 de feb. de 2023 · Jack Dragna, longtime underworld boss of southern California, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in a Los Angeles hotel room on February 23, 1956. Dragna appeared to rise to command a Los Angeles-based Mafia organization during the Prohibition Era.
22 de sept. de 2018 · Learn about Jack Dragna’s gambling operations, bootlegging and other illegal activities through his eyes. Author J. Michael Niotta is the great-grandson of syndicate boss Jack Dragna. In his book, The Los Angeles Sugar Ring: Inside the World of Old Money, Bootleggers & Gambling Barons , Niotta reveals the connections between politics and crime in early Los Angeles as seen through his great ...
Dragna, Jack (1891-1956) Born Corleone, Sicily, April 18, 1891. Died Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 23, 1956. Jack Ignatius Dragna was the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in southern California from the mid 1930s until the 1950s. He was born in Corleone, Sicily, in 1891 and came to the United States with his family early in life.
Jack Dragna in una foto segnaletica del 1915. Jack Ignatius Dragna, nato Ignazio Dragna (Corleone, 18 aprile 1891 – Los Angeles, 23 febbraio 1956), è stato un mafioso italiano, leader di Cosa nostra statunitense in California, storico componente della Cupola Americana sin dall'inizio, e capo della Famiglia di Los Angeles dall'inizio degli anni trenta fino alla sua morte avvenuta nel 1956.
12 de dic. de 2018 · As the eldest great grandson of Los Angeles Don, Jack I. Dragna—“perhaps the only classic ‘Godfather’ the city has ever known (LA Times)”—delving into the sordid past of the City of Angels has become a near obsession. In 2018, Niotta lectured at the Las Vegas Mob Museum and headlined a MobWorld Summit panel at the Las Vegas Plaza Hotel.
20 de jun. de 2017 · In a leading scenario, members of the national syndicate instructed Los Angeles Mafia boss Jack Dragna to take care of Siegel, and that he hired Frankie Carbo to do the deed. Who exactly pulled the trigger may forever remain a mystery, but it seems clear the murder of Bugsy Siegel, at age 41, was a well-orchestrated affair.
