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      • The Black Hand Mafia, also known as “La Mano Nera,” terrorized Italian-American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through extortion and violence. Originating in Southern Italy, this criminal organization used fear to control and exploit immigrants.
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  2. Among the most notorious of Black Handers was Ignazio Saietta, known to residents of Manhattan’s “Little Italy” as Lupo (the “Wolf”); in 1920 he was finally apprehended by federal authorities for counterfeiting and was sent to prison for 30 years.

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  3. Jul 19, 2024 · The Black Hand Mafia, also known as “La Mano Nera,” terrorized Italian-American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through extortion and violence. Originating in Southern Italy, this criminal organization used fear to control and exploit immigrants.

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  4. Founded in the 1900s, the Lupo Mano Nera gang was one of the first Italian criminal groups in New York. [15] [16] Lupo was partner in many ventures with Morello, who was the original capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses), a title that would later be coveted by D'Aquila.

  5. Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants.

  6. Aug 24, 2018 · They decided to utilize an old symbol, the black hand or “la mano nera” to terrorize new Italian immigrants and extort large sums of money from them.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ignazio_LupoIgnazio Lupo - Wikipedia

    Ignazio Lupo (Italian: [iɲˈɲattsjo ˈluːpo]; 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.

  8. Salvatrice Terranova married a wicked man named Ignazio Lupo, The Wolf” Saietta, who later in America, along with Joe Morello, Nick, and Vincent Terranova, formed the hated and much-feared Black Hand.

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