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| - Iannone was born in New York and was a former prize-fighter and Sergeant in the US Army during WWII. He was said to have been a POW during the war. His father was an immigrant from Montanago, Campobasso, Molise Region, Italy who arrived in New York in 1903. Two years before moving to L.A. Iannone had escaped from a patrol wagon in Brooklyn after being arrested for robbery and had vanished from the New York scene where he also allegedly operated an extortion racket. Iannone moved to California where he became a "made guy" in the Los Angeles crime family and began to go by the name of "Danny Wilson". He was inducted into the family in the 1940s by Los Angeles crime boss Jack Dragna. In Los Angeles, Iannone acquired a reputation as a muscleman but according to Jimmy "the weasel" Fratianno was in fact terrified of violence. Iannone had two brothers, John and Salvatore, the latter changed his name to "Sonny Vincent Wilson" when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked at the Sands and MGM Grand Casinos before becoming a manager of the Aladdin Hotel & Casino. Iannone was a reputed killer and an expert extortionist. He organized, and shook down movie extras controlling the calls for work from casting bureaus forcing movie extras to share their pay checks with the racketeers who controlled their jobs. If they failed to pay, the would-be extras were left jobless. The racket was worth thousands of dollars every week.
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