Person · Camorrista / bandit
Fortuna
A well-connected penicillin racketeer, a lieutenant of Vito Genovese.
In the book
Lewis visits him in Poggio Reale and finds him serenely certain of acquittal despite the evidence — and he is proved right: an emblem of how the powerful stay ‘beyond the reach of the law’ while petty thieves rot in the cells.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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May 11 1944A visit to the confident, well-connected prisoner Fortuna, who expects to be acquitted of a penicillin-racketeering charge despite Lewis's evidence.
imperturbable penicillin-racketeer, confident of acquittal despite Lewis's evidence
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