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Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts
23 February 2023

Los Angeles boss Dragna found dead in hotel

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 On this date in 1956: San Bernardino County Sun Jack Dragna, longtime underworld boss of southern California, was found dead of an apparent...
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19 October 2020

October 2020 Informer focuses on Nick Gentile

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This Informer special issue (No. 30) focuses on Nicola "Nick" Gentile, underworld leader in U.S. and Sicily, who published an Ital...
22 December 2019

Jury convicts six Outfit leaders, associate

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Found guilty of extorting money from movie executives On this date in 1943... Six members of the Chicago Outfit and one associate wer...
18 December 2019

Gunman in green car decimates Matrangas

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On this date in 1917... Los Angeles Times, Dec. 20, 1917. A southern California underworld feud and the continued effectiveness of a t...
15 October 2019

Wealthy Los Angeles-area Mafia leader vanishes

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On this date in 1931... L.A.Times, Oct. 18, 1931 Joseph E. Ardizzone, wealthy southern California ranch owner and Mafia chief, lef...
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14 October 2019

SoCal rackets bosses tried in federal court

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Long-awaited trial reveals Mafia informants On this date in 1980... Shocking revelations from turncoat witnesses were widely expected a...
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12 January 2019

Cali cops called for Caddy corpse

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Cleveland-connected killer confesses Petro On this date in 1969... On Sunday, Jan. 12, 1969, police found a dead man behind the whe...
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20 July 2018

SoCal Mafia tries (again) to take out Cohen

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On this date in 1949... Los Angeles Times Los Angeles area gambling czar Mickey Cohen, a frequent target of Mafia assassination attem...
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13 May 2017

SoCal boss DiGiorgio is gunned down

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Chicago Tribune illustration Feared California Mafia leader  killed in Chicago barber chair Chicago Tribune May 14, 1922 May ...
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10 February 2017

Mafia executes SoCal informant Bompensiero

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Bompensiero On this date in 1977: Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero, a longtime leader of the southern California underworld, is shot t...
18 January 2017

Hollywood Homicide

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Was back on this date in 1933 that Tinsel Town lost one of their, if not thee, top bootlegger. Booze baron Harry Meagher, said to have ...
05 January 2017

Hooray for Hollywood!

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On this date in 1933 movie star Betty Compson was playing cards with producer E.D. Leshin in her Los Angeles home. The doorbell rang, a...