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The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Joseph "Joe Iron Man" Ardizzone (born Giuseppe Ernesto Ardizzone; Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe erˈnɛsto arditˈtsoːne]; November 19, 1884 – disappeared October 15, 1931, declared dead 1938) was an Italian-born early American mobster, who became the first Boss of the Los Angeles crime family. He was involved in a long-standing feud ...
Joseph Charles Dippolito (December 28, 1914 – January 14, 1974), also well known as Joe Dip, was an Italian American Mafia member in the Los Angeles crime family.The son of fellow Mafioso Salvatore Charles Dippolito (known as Charlie Dip), Joe Dip rose to become underboss of the Los Angeles crime family.
Jack Dragna, "Capone of Los Angeles" (born Ignazio Dragna, 1891–1956) Tom Dragna (born Gaetano Dragna , 1889–1977) Louis Tom Dragna , "The Reluctant Prince" (1920–2012)
A court handed down lengthy jail sentences on Monday at the end of one of Italy's largest-ever mafia trials which targeted the 'Ndrangheta crime group in its heartland in the southern region of ...
In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime Cosa Nostra (Sicilian) and 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian). [16] In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia , Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa ...
Ezequiel Romo, a gang leader who ordered murders of rivals and followers alike to maintain control over drug and collection rackets in Panorama City, was stabbed to death at Centinela State Prison.
By this time the Los Angeles mob family was a lot different from the one Licata first started with. The L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. was engaged in a tough assault against organized crime in Los Angeles, and Mafia families from other cities were stretching their power to the West Coast. Although seen as an improvement over the incompetent DeSimone ...