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[6] [7] [8] Including partly Black people, Los Angeles proper is 10% Black (estimated 385,000 residents in 2021). [9] Many African Americans have become homeless in the city. African Americans make up 34% of Los Angeles's homeless, while only being 8% of the city's population in 2020. [10]
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.
When Nick Licata became boss of the Los Angeles mob family in 1967, he promoted Dippolito to underboss. On January 31, 1969, Joe Dippolito was indicted in a Los Angeles court on three counts of perjury for false statements he made during a liquor license inquiry on May 16, 1968. [3] He was released on $10,000 bail and scheduled to be arraigned ...
The Black Hand: A Chapter in Ethnic Crime. Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams, & Co. (An excellent social historical study of the Black Hand during the early years of the twentieth century—when the influx of Italians was the greatest—using a variety of print sources.) Wallin, Geoff (3 July 2007). "In Little Italy, Mum's the Word About Mob".
The similarly august California Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 when "at least 12 of the 125 founding members were Jews." But "as the original Jewish members died off, this power center became off limits to Jews." The Jonathan Club, a likewise prestigious social group, was established in Los Angeles in 1894. [2]
According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and stock fraud caused the U.S. gold market to collapse entirely.
Z Channel, launched in 1974 (one of the early pay-TV services in the US), soon enjoyed tremendous popularity and influence.Producer Charles Joffe told filmmaker Xan Cassavetes that the primary reason Woody Allen's Annie Hall won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1977 was because it had played so frequently on Z Channel during the weeks the awards were being voted.
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