Louis Tom Dragna
| Louis Tom Dragna | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Louis Tom Dragna July 18, 1920 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | November 16, 2012 (aged 92) Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | Italian American |
| Other names | Lou Allen |
| Known for | Mob Activity |
| Parent(s) |
Tom Dragna (father) Julia Torisco (mother) |
| Relatives |
Jack Dragna (uncle) Josephine Dragna (aunt) Frank Dragna (brother) |
Louis Tom Dragna (July 18, 1920 - November 16, 2012) was a mobster and nephew of Jack Dragna and son of Tom Dragna. He was active in the Los Angeles crime family from the 1940s until the early 1980s.
Louis Tom Dragna was born on July 18, 1920 in Los Angeles, California to father Tom Dragna. He has a younger brother, Frank Paul Dragna (nicknamed "Two Eyes" to distinguish him from his cousin who had the same name and had a glass eye). They are second generation immigrants and Louis was the only younger Dragna to be heavily involved in the Mafia. His grandparents Francesco Paolo Dragna and Anna Dragna immigrated to the United States on November 18, 1898, but returned to Sicily 10 years later. His family then returned to New York City in the 1910s and made their way West to California. In 1931 his uncle Jack Dragna became Boss of the Los Angeles crime family and named Tom his Consigliere.
According to his army enlistment record, Louis Dragna spent two years in college. He started to become involved in the crime family in the 1940s. Under his uncle Jack, the Mafia in Los Angeles was growing into a very widespread enterprise. Louis has an arrest record dating back to 1946. Dragna became a made man in 1947 along with Jimmy Fratianno, Dominic Brooklier, Charles Dippolito, and Salvatore "Dago Louie" Piscopo. Louis Dragna was eventually promoted to Captain (caporegime) in the family by his uncle. Some say that Louis never "made his bones" i.e. committed a murder on the Mafia's orders.
In 1959 Dragna was arrested with mobsters Joe Sica, John "Frankie" Carbo, Frank "Blinky" Palermo, and Truman Gibson for extorting Jackie Leonard the manager of boxing champion Don Jordan in 1958. They were accused of trying to muscle in on the fight earnings of Jordan. On May 30, 1961, they were all found guilty in Los Angeles Federal District Court of conspiring to extort money and of transmitting by interstate commerce threats of harm to Jackie Leonard and sentenced to prison times of various lengths, with Dragna sentenced to five years. The defendants appealed their ruling and on February 13, 1963 the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of four of the defendants, with Dragna 's sentence being overturned. His lawyers argued that the defense against him was weak and questioned Leonard's creditability. Leonard's only testimony on Dragna stated that he was present at the times threats were made against him, but that Dragna never made any threats himself.
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