J. Michael Niotta

J. Michael Niotta, PhD, is an early Los Angeles crime historian and the author of two nonfiction titles, The Los Angeles Sugar Ring and The Fight Abroad & the Fear Back Home. As the eldest great grandson of Los Angeles Godfather Jack I. Dragna-"perhaps the only classic 'Godfather' the city has ever known (LA Times)"-delving into the sordid past of the City of Angels has become a near obsession. In 2018, Niotta lectured at the Las Vegas Mob Museum and headlined a MobWorld Summit panel at the Las Vegas Plaza Hotel. In the year that followed, he appeared as an early Los Angeles crime SME on the Travel Channel's Mission Declassified. He is slated to appear in the new season of Nat Geo's Drain the Oceans.