Ignazio Lupo
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican mob boss (1877-1947)
United StatesLived 1877 to 1947 · aged 69Ignazio Lupo, also known as Ignazio Saietta and Lupo the Wolf, was a Sicilian American Black Hand leader in New York City during the early 1900s. His business was centered in Little Italy, Manhattan, where he ran extensive extortion operations and committed other crimes, including robbery, loan-sharking, and murder.
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Ignazio Lupo, also known as Ignazio Saietta and Lupo the Wolf, was a Sicilian American Black Hand leader in New York City during the early 1900s. His business was centered in Little Italy, Manhattan, where he ran extensive extortion operations and committed other crimes, including robbery, loan-sharking, and murder. By the start of the 20th century, Lupo merged his crew with others in the South Bronx and East Harlem to form the Morello crime family, which became the leading Mafia family in New York City.
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