Jack Ignatius Dragna[1] (born Ignazio Dragna, Italian pronunciation:[iɲˈɲattsjoˈdraɲɲa]; April 18, 1891 – February 23, 1956) was a Sicilian-American Mafia member, entrepreneur and Black Hander who was active in both Italy and the United States in the 20th century. He was active in bootlegging in California during the Prohibition Era in the United States. In 1931, he succeeded Joseph Ardizzone as the boss of the Los Angeles crime family after Ardizzone's mysterious disappearance and death. Both James Ragen and Earl Warren dubbed Dragna the "Capone of Los Angeles". Dragna remained the boss of the Los Angeles crime family from 1931 until his death in 1956.
^"DRAGNA HELD FOR OUSTER - McGranery Says Californian Will Be Deported as Racketeer". The New York Times. 1952-12-08. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
Jack Ignatius Dragna (born Ignazio Dragna, Italian pronunciation: [iɲˈɲattsjo ˈdraɲɲa]; April 18, 1891 – February 23, 1956) was a Sicilian-American Mafia...
family reached its peak strength in the 1940s and early 1950s under JackDragna, although the family was never larger than the New York or Chicago families...
Look up dragna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dragna is an Italian surname and may refer to: JackDragna (1891–1956), Los Angeles crime family mobster...
the Los Angeles crime family. He was the brother of JackDragna and the father of Louis Tom Dragna. He remained an obscure figure until he was featured...
Tom Dragna (Italian: [ˈdraɲɲa]; July 18, 1920 – November 16, 2012) was an Italian-American mobster, nephew of JackDragna and son of Tom Dragna. He was...
Joseph Ardizzone, and Roselli worked closely with Ardizonne's underboss JackDragna. During this time, Roselli was involved with Los Angeles' offshore gambling...
bosses have come from Corleone, including Tommy Gagliano, Gaetano Reina, JackDragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella...
from weak Los Angeles crime family boss JackDragna. Ascending local Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen robs Dragna's operation one day. He is confronted by...
several members of JackDragna's family including Tom Dragna (brother), Louis Dragna (nephew), and two men named Frank Paul Dragna (his son and nephew...
Fratianno and Johnny Roselli as well as providing legal aid to others. After JackDragna died of a heart attack in 1956, DeSimone was elected the third official...
caporegime in the Los Angeles crime family. In 1956, with the death of boss JackDragna, Bompensiero was demoted to the rank of soldier by the new boss, Frank...
gangster Robert Dragna recruits professional killer Jack to pick up a bag and wait for his arrival at a motel. Robert Dragna stresses that Jack is not to open...
of Morrison's mob squad that butts heads with Joe Paul Ben-Victor as JackDragna, a mobster and rival of Cohen's Mekia Cox as Anya, the head bartender...
left London for Los Angeles, where he became bodyguard to Mafia boss JackDragna in the 1920s and to many Hollywood celebrities, including Charlie Chaplin...
Genovese crime family caporegime (New Jersey) and Abner Zwillman associate. JackDragna, Los Angeles Mafia Don. Owney "The Killer" Madden, New York Prohibition...
Los Angeles crime family boss JackDragna (Cohen's rival) attempted a hostile takeover of Siegel's gambling rackets. Dragna ran into a road block in the...
New York mobster Mickey Cohen, a rival of Los Angeles syndicate boss JackDragna, is convicted of income tax evasion. April 16 – Sam Maceo, former underboss...
becoming a made man in the Los Angeles crime family, then headed by JackDragna. It then goes back to Fratianno's early childhood, growing up in Cleveland...
boss Mickey Cohen. Following JackDragna's orders, Fratianno tried to convince Niccoli to leave Cohen and join Dragna's mob, but Niccoli refused. In a...
(1880–1922) Joseph Dippolito, "Joe Dip" (1914–1974) JackDragna (1891–1956) Louis Tom Dragna (1920–2012) Tom Dragna (1899–1977) Rene Enriquez (born 1962) Jimmy...
develop syndicate-sanctioned gambling rackets with Los Angeles family boss JackDragna. Once in Los Angeles, Siegel recruited gang boss Mickey Cohen as his...
had hired Sicilian gunmen to commit the crime. At one point, Reina and JackDragna were implicated as the actual gunmen; however, it was later determined...
Provenzano Salvatore Riina Gaetano "Tommy" Reina Tommy Gagliano JackDragna Tom Dragna Nicholas Terranova Vincenzo Terranova Giuseppe Morello Ciro Terranova...
DeMaio. Sica once refused an order by L.A. Boss JackDragna to kill friend Mickey Cohen. Defying Dragna made Sica a well-respected man amongst Cohen and...
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