Originally Posted by BillyBrizzi
Originally Posted by sbhc
Dead as a doornail I'd imagine.

There was never a big family there in the first place. Other familes would do business in LA without involving them or asking permission.


Yep, according to Michael Franzese you never had to check in with anyone when you went to Los Angeles, the way you had to do in cities like Philly, Miami and even Cleveland. He said that within LCN they weren't taken seriously at all, they called them the Micky Mouse Mafia..


Yes,the Dragna family was called the Mickey Mouse Mafia and at it peak in the 1950s had 50 or few more made men some of them come from the east coast families.
The Dragna men was so weak that Mickey Cohen was the real boss of LA;and was so less respected that Joe Bonanno tried to made his son Bill as LA family boss.

In California there was italian communities that was more integrated and so the mob family in L.A.,San Francisco and San Jose was small and ehen the old wiseguy died there was nobody for replace them.