Does the Italian Mafia still exist in Los Angeles? Is the Los Angeles crime family still active today?
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Re: Does the Italian Mafia still exist in Los Angeles? Is the Los Angeles crime family still active today?
They tried shaking down porn companies in the 1970s and it just resulted in cases against them. From the 70s thru the 90s they never had the muscle to really extort anything. Maybe on a small scale but that's all.
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Re: Does the Italian Mafia still exist in Los Angeles? Is the Los Angeles crime family still active today?
Even in the LA porn industry back in the day, the OC heavyweights were from the east coast.
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Re: Does the Italian Mafia still exist in Los Angeles? Is the Los Angeles crime family still active today?
one would think they'd be in West Hollywood, Beverly HIlls , Brentwood Santa Monica as this is where there the bookies are killing it and have been for years--- one bookie lives in Pacific PAlisades that is a huge lay off guy. I rememb.er a bunch of wanna be old men with upstate new york accents used to hang out in the cafe section at bristol farms next to Chasens. why did they live in West Covina and all these out of the way places
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Re: Does the Italian Mafia still exist in Los Angeles? Is the Los Angeles crime family still active today?
You're missing out on some good stuff. There's a lot of interesting background with the Colombians and the Colombian connections. Those Avila's restaurants were very big in Orange County back in the day, and so was the cocaine. Then there's the story of the "Godmother" Griselda Blanco moving to Irvine until she was captured. In a period of about ten years she was responsible for more bodies dropping than probably the entire history of the Bonanno Family.Grouchy Sinatra wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:12 am Tried reading Kenji Gallo's book. I skipped through the earlier chapters about his party animal drug slinging days. Once you get to his mob activity it seems to be stories about shaking down porn shop owners and which porn star is gay, etc. Definitely a gen x era associate who was active in the 'who even cares anymore?' era of the west coast mob.
His blog is kind of interesting. Seems to be a lot more content about past Dragna and Milano guys but the fact that more of this wasn't in his book makes me wonder if he's just taking cookie cutter info and placing himself into some stories the way all these new YouTube mobsters do.