# Ignazio Lupo

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/ignazio-lupo/

Convicted with Giuseppe Morello of counterfeiting in 1910 and sentenced to thirty years; paroled in 1920, his sentence was conditionally commuted by President Harding in 1921, the commutation was revoked in 1936, and the Fifth Circuit upheld his return to Atlanta in 1937.

The records spell the given name Ignazio, Ignatio, Ignatzio and Ignacio; the pardon warrant says he was "indicted as Ignatio Lupo." The 1910 newspapers call him "The Wolf"; that is the papers' nickname and is not listed as an alias. The surname "Saietta," which some later works give for him, does not appear in any record opened for this section and is not an alias here. A blurred surname on a 1903 Secret Service page about a brother's arrival is not read as one either.

**Role and family.** The Sun reports Judge Ray as saying that Lupo and Morello "were at the head of this enterprise," a counterfeiting operation; that is a newspaper report. The 1936 revocation's reference to "racketeering" is a recital in a presidential order, quoted in the 1937 opinion, and names no organisation. No federal record filed here states a role or a family for him, so both fields are left empty.

No record filed here gives his dates of birth or death or his release after 1936.

## Sources

- Pardon warrant 36-638, National Archives (NAID 648066344): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/648066344