Ignazio Lupo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ignazio Lupo

American mob boss

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1877

Place of Birth: Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1947

Profession: gangster

Nationality: United States, Italy

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ignazio Lupo (Italian: [i?'?attsjo 'lu?po]; March 21, 1877 – January 13, 1947), 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 large extortion operations and committed other crimes including robberies, 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.Suspected of at least 60 murders, he was not caught by authorities until 1910, when the Secret Service arrested him for running a large scale counterfeiting ring in the Catskills.
He was paroled after serving 10 years of a 30-year sentence.
A few years later, he was forced into retirement by the emerging National Crime Syndicate led by Lucky Luciano.