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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.
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 ...
Vito Di Giorgio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈviːto di ˈdʒordʒo]; March 19, 1880 – May 13, 1922) was an Italian-born crime boss based in Los Angeles. Originally from Palermo, Sicily, Di Giorgio lived most of his life as a grocer in New Orleans, where he was also an active Black Hander. While he lived in Los Angeles, he was known as a wealthy ...
In August, Gonzalez was charged with murdering his cellmate in a downtown Los Angeles lockup, Joseph "Capone" Hutchinson. Read more:He built a booming black market empire inside L.A. County jails ...
A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department's SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.
In 1985, a man named William Alfred Kauffman petitioned Los Angeles County Superior Court to change his name to William Alexander de Rothschild. "I want to take my family name, that I prefer to ...
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 ...
Rosario DeSimone (Italian pronunciation: [roˈzaːrjo desiˈmoːne]; 11 December 1873 – 15 July 1946) was the head of an Italian American crime family during the 1920s to 1940s that was the predecessor to the Los Angeles crime family of the American Mafia. Rosario was the father of the future California mob boss, Frank DeSimone. He is not to ...