Rocco Pranno

Rocco Salvatore Pranno (December 18, 1916-July 1979) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit who operated on the city's West Side.

Born in Stone Park, Illinois [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1200.html] , Pranno's criminal record stretched back to 1934 and included charges of armed robbery, extortion, murder and bombing. Pranno served one year for assault and battery at the Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois. He was later convicted of conspiracy and extortion and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Rocco Pranno died in July 1979.

Further reading

*Kennedy, Robert F. "The Enemy Within: The McClellan Committee's Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labour Unions". New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. ISBN 0-306-80590-1

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