 Joe Esposito (mobster)

Joseph "Diamond Joe" Esposito (born Giuseppe Esposito; ; April 28, 1872 – March 21, 1928) was an Italian-born Prohibition-era Chicago politician who was involved in bootlegging, extortion, prostitution and labor racketeering with the Genna Brothers.Esposito was born in Acerra, Italy, and later joined one of the street gangs terrorizing Chicago's Little Italy during the early 1900s.