Naples ’44

Person · Camorrista / bandit

Fortuna

Background

A well-connected penicillin racketeer, a lieutenant of Vito Genovese.

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In Naples ’44

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.

  1. May 11 1944
    A 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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