Your Foto A Day #8 featuring @sameold.lens

Spread from Secret Societies - The Graphic History Of Organised Crime Book.
Ignazio "Jack Rizotta" Dragna, who later led the Los Angeles Crime Family, was convicted in 1915 for extortion. He was found guilty of demanding $500 under the threat of death, using letters decorated with skull and crossbones. He was sentenced to three years in San Quentin Penitentiary. Evidence introduced during his trial proved his friendship with a Mafia leader in Corleone, Sicily.
He was released after ten months on a legal technicality. In 1917, Dragna tried to escape Los Angeles City Jail three times in one day, after being arrested in connection with the killing of a New York poultry dealer. Much is popularised of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of facts, but many are presented via a creative lens distorting how organised crime began.
References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years. This book however examines the early development of the Sicilian-American criminal network through the rise and fall of the first USA bosses of bosses Giuseppe Morello and his powerful brother-in-law Ignazio Lupo.
Written and designed by Jon Black.
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