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Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Jewish parents. [2] Cohen's parents immigrated to the US from Kiev. [3] He was first raised in New York, moving with his mother and siblings to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles at an early age.
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 "JS" Sica (August 20, 1911 – November 21, 1982) was an American mobster and member of the Los Angeles crime family who was involved in armed robbery, murder for hire, extortion, and narcotics distribution. Originally from New Jersey, Sica mentored many West Coast mobsters, including Mike Rizzitello and Anthony "the Animal" Fiato ...
The group included Joseph Lanni, also known as “Joe Brooklyn” or “Mommino,” an alleged Gambino captain, as well as a number of other crime family members and associates who are accused of ...
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Family members of Michael Cohen, who testified in Donald Trump's hush money trial, doxed online after Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies.
On February 14, 1950, the California Commission on Organized Crime singled out Dragna as the head of a crime syndicate that controlled crime in Southern California. [7] Soon after, several Los Angeles family members were arrested for the bombing of Mickey Cohen's home. Dragna fled the state to avoid questioning.
As Fratianno and his family left the store, he hand signaled the other Dragna gang members, and they rushed into Cohen's store. At that point, Cohen was washing his hands in the bathroom, from a phobia Cohen had of germs, after shaking Fratianno's hands. Frank Bompensiero forced Rothman back into the clothing store using a sawed-off shotgun. As ...