June 20, 2021 • 10 mins
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em. Ignazio Lupo was born in Palermo in March 1877. His family of origin was part of a Palermo mafia gang and he himself was part of a gang of extortionists. In 1898, following a quarrel in his shop, Salvatore Morello shot and killed a trader competing with him. As a result of this crime, on March 12, 1899, Lupo was sentenced to twenty-one years for premeditated murder. A year before the sentence became enforceable, favored by his family, he illegally expatriated to New York.
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