Louis Fratto
Kefauver hearings
.Louis Thomas Fratto (July 17, 1907 – November 24, 1967), born Luigi Tommaso Giuseppe Fratto, also known as "Lew Farrell" and "Cockeyed Louie", was an American
rackets in Iowa. Among other things, Fratto became the Iowa distributor of "Canadian Ace Beer" which was a Capone Family
enterprise.
Fratto was the brother of Frank "Frankie One Ear" Fratto, a hitman for the mob, the uncle of
.Whilst in Iowa Fratto lived and operated under the alias "Lew Farrell"; he claimed that he took the name as a young man when he was a
subpoenaed by the Kefauver Organized Crime Senate Committee where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment. Although Fratto was never convicted of any crime, he was under a federal indictment for racketeering
at the time of his death in 1967.
Fratto had five children with wife Carmella, and one with his first wife, Evelyn.Howard Stern Show, managed Eric the Actor and also guest starred in an episode of Deadliest Warrior as an expert on Al Capone.[2]
References
- ^ "Johnny Fratto-Farrell Obituary (1954 - 2015) - Beverly Hills, Ca, CA". The Des Moines Register. November 28, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2019 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ "BEETLE'S CHRISTMAS WISH". HowardStern.com. December 19, 2011. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
- Fratto, Johnny; Randazzo, Matthew (2017). Now That I'm Dead, Here's The Real Dirt: The Posthumous Memoirs of Johnny Fratto. Isaac Olivia Company. ISBN 978-0692956588.
