Thanks for posting, Billy. This is a great interview. In the book he makes several implications that the Jewish gangsters answered to Italians in Los Angeles, which anybody who's ever looked into the topic knows is b.s. Maybe they answered to Italians back east, but not Dragna. Dragna had to kill some of Cohen's guys to get their attention, which was stupid business-wise. Dragna was old school Sicilian and pride clouded his business sense. Frattiano was more moderate in this regard. He had a business acumen, but not much of one. It seemed every time he talked about a sophisticated scheme, he couldn't resist going into how they cracked someone's head in the process. Frattiano was a leg breaker whose semi-knowledge of sophisticated schemes made him the best of a bad lot to people like Roselli and the midwest families. This is just my opinion, of course. I'm an admitted novice on the topic, and welcome being learned a thing or two.

Were there any lucrative money makers in the Dragna mob who weren't solidly connected back east, to the point to where they could have just represented an east coast or midwest family?