21 Burst results for "Mickey Cohen"
The Eric Metaxas Show
Mark Shaw and Eric Discuss the Shady Dealings of the Kennedy Clan
"1960, Joseph Kennedy, the father of JFK, RFK, teddy Kennedy. He had been a bootlegger. He had been involved with dark forces during prohibition, so he has these connections. He wants his son to be elected president. He makes a deal with these old colleagues. And as you just said, basically says, if you help me to get my son elected president, I will leave you alone. Exactly. And so then I had an eyewitness who was right at breakfast where Joe ordered JFK to a point Bobby Kennedy attorney general. And you can just imagine the reaction from those mafioso had helped him get in The White House because Bobby Kennedy during the mcclellan hearings, which were those racketeering Harry earrings years earlier, had gone after all those guys. James hoffa, Carlos Marcello, traffic Conte, all the Mickey Cohen, all of them. So they were alarmed and they should have been because one of the first things in 1961 that Bobby did was go after Marcelo, who was the New Orleans Don worth millions and millions of dollars, racketeering, prostitution, all kinds of things. This is a 100% classic portrayal like out of a movie. You make a deal with the mob and as soon as JFK appoints his brother, which is its own bizarreness, but appoints his brother. Everyone knows his brother RFK hates the mob and is going to go after them. So at that moment, you have big trouble brewing because as far as I know, the mob doesn't like to be double crossed.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"mickey cohen" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Thanks so much, Eric. Appreciate it. Now for folks who don't know anything about you, how did you get into this? Because anybody who's been alive in our lifetimes know that there's been tremendous controversy and confusion around certainly the death of president Kennedy, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and many people haven't even heard of Dorothy kill gallon. What brought you? What is your background that brought you to investigate these things as you have done over the years? Well, you ask about how I got into all of this and I have no idea in some ways very Quinn. President Kennedy was killed 60 years ago, you know, nearly 60 years ago or a little bit more. You know, I like everybody else. I cried my ears out. I was a Purdue university as a freshman. And yet over the years then, I bought all this material about J. Edgar Hoover saying Oswald alone. Oswald alone all of that and everything else. And then I had a real break with this because I knew Melvin Belli, who represented Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. I practiced law with him in San Francisco in the 80s. And when Belle I died, I started to look into his life and times and I found out that I could have a book there. So I wrote Melvin bell I king of the courtroom. And what I found out was the alarming, a couple things. First of all, he was very close with the mafia, one of his main clients was Mickey Cohen, the Los Angeles gangster. You're talking about but more than talking about Bella, are you talking about Marvin belli was close with the mafia? Melvin bell. Melvin Belli. Bella. Yeah. San Francisco attorney, but also he was known as a tort lawyer. He was a personal injury lawyer. How in the world I asked myself, I mean, you're a curious guy. How did he become Jack Ruby's attorney? So I started looking into that and what I found out was that actually he was a hired by those who wanted to silence Jack Ruby for his participation in the killing of Oswald and the JFK assassination. So take people back to their young people listening to this program, perhaps they've never heard of John F. Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln. We're not going to address those ignoramuses. And I say that in love. But there are plenty of young people that don't know the details that however many years ago, in 1963, at this time of year, Kennedy is assassinated, the man most believed had killed him, Oswald, was himself killed by Jack Ruby, obviously we're not going to get anything out of Oswald now because he's dead. Jack Ruby is a complicated figure. He owns a nightclub in Dallas. Kind of tied in with the mafia, and you're saying that Marvin belli, who was a prominent lawyer, I remember him on the Dick Cavett show in the 70s, I think, that Marvin belli was the lawyer for this Jack Ruby. And so you're explaining to us how that came about. And this is complicated, folks. This is one of the reasons Mark Shaw wrote a book about it called fighting for justice because it is complicated. And by the way, the complication is one of the reasons so many people have tuned out because they think it's too complicated. I can't I'll just accept whatever. We can't we'll never figure it out. But you have been really dogged at this. Well, I have and I'm sorry, it is Melvin Belli, but they used to some people used to call him Mark. So that's just fine. But what I found out right away was how did he become Jack Ruby's lawyer? And then at trial, he wouldn't let ruby testify. And he used this psychomotor epilepsy insanity defense that made no sense at all. And the jury decided, you know? Yeah. You know, this guy was guilty of shooting as well. And so they gave him the death penalty. So it was interesting to me because that just seemed too pat to me and I was concerned about Melvin bellies connection to the mafia..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Author Mark Shaw Sought the Truth in the JFK Assassination
"For folks who don't know anything about you, how did you get into this? Because anybody who's been alive in our lifetimes know that there's been tremendous controversy and confusion around certainly the death of president Kennedy, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and many people haven't even heard of Dorothy kill gallon. What brought you? What is your background that brought you to investigate these things as you have done over the years? Well, you ask about how I got into all of this and I have no idea in some ways very Quinn. President Kennedy was killed 60 years ago, you know, nearly 60 years ago or a little bit more. You know, I like everybody else. I cried my ears out. I was a Purdue university as a freshman. And yet over the years then, I bought all this material about J. Edgar Hoover saying Oswald alone. Oswald alone all of that and everything else. And then I had a real break with this because I knew Melvin Belli, who represented Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. I practiced law with him in San Francisco in the 80s. And when Belle I died, I started to look into his life and times and I found out that I could have a book there. So I wrote Melvin bell I king of the courtroom. And what I found out was the alarming, a couple things. First of all, he was very close with the mafia, one of his main clients was Mickey Cohen, the Los Angeles gangster. You're talking about but more than talking about Bella, are you talking about Marvin belli was close with the mafia? Melvin bell. Melvin Belli. Bella. Yeah. San Francisco attorney, but also he was known as a tort lawyer. He was a personal injury lawyer. How in the world I asked myself, I mean, you're a curious guy. How did he become Jack Ruby's attorney? So I started looking into that and what I found out was that actually he was a hired by those who wanted to silence Jack Ruby for his participation in the killing of Oswald and the JFK assassination. So
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"mickey cohen" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"So this is a huge story. And it's a great story because it has everything. Sex, violence, celebrity, the mob, a Hollywood star, and plenty of mystery, stabbed in his stomach with a butcher knife, and then before the night was over, her daughter confessed to delivering that fatal wound. Now, Cheryl's father was a restaurateur named Stephen Crane, and she copped a stabbing stomping on her to protect her mother from what she thought was going to be stomping out on killing her that night. That's the way it sounded. But it got really weird. There's ways to listen to this story. And then you can go either way on this thing. To this day, you don't really know who did it. But about a week after this whole thing, Lana Turner sat in a courtroom and delivered what has been described as the best and most important performance of her life, and for an hour or so, she just talked about this argument that she was having with stomp Madonna that escalated and ended in his unexpected murder before her, they brought Mickey Cohen to testify and they asked him to could you identify the dead person as Johnny stompanato and he wouldn't even take part. He said, I refuse to identify him as John stompanato on the grounds that I may accuse. I may be accused of this murder. So he got rid of him quick line of trying to shows up in a great coat, gray silk tweed type dress and she's walking through the hall of records hearing room. Everybody's there, a bunch of reporters, news camera crews onlookers. She looks fantastic. She takes the stand, she takes off one white glove, exposes these beautiful nails done in silver nail polish shaken, she's touching her face a lot from time to time. She's controlling her tears, and she's answering questions she's staring down at her twisting hands. It's very, you can't stop marveling at the work she did. Is it all real? Is it all true? How much of it is affected? I don't know. Mumbling some details, crying through a bunch of it,
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"mickey cohen" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"He turned to and said Sammy, if Kim Novak ever sees this, she'll be back sleeping with hattie mcdaniel. So we always got shit for it from white guys. There were rumors that Sammy and Kim took out a marriage license and supposedly a clerk in aurora, Chicago, Illinois, found that and the application of his filed, but had been filled up and never filed. That caused a lot of ruckus at the studio, Harry Cohen read this in the column and, you know, he knew his thought was about to be destroyed. Because he said, who's going to see a fucking movie star who's married to a black guy? So he blew his top. Now, Sammy also had some protection. He loved going to Hollywood park, the racetrack in Inglewood. One of the things you see as you fly into LAX at night that he met Mickey Cohen there, big tough guy, Cohen, was a West Coast gangster, really took over or tried to take over Ben Siegel's bugsy Siegel's gambling interest after seeing him as I shut out. Mickey Cohen was like 5 foot 5, but a real big hothead was a taste for beautiful suits and jewelry. I read a great book about him written by a young kid who got to hang out with him and be his valet and his right hand man gave you I forget the name of a really good in depth look at what kind of guy this guy was. Really the only mobster I know of that ran Hollywood for a while. So one day they're talking in Hollywood park and Mickey says to Sammy, listen, I got some bad news, buddy. I just got a call from Chicago to hurt you. And he says, I'll tell you what, there's one chance I won't, Harry Cohen says, given 24 hours, but Sammy's got to get married to a colored girl. So Sammy goes with the sands hotel,
The Stuttering John Podcast
"mickey cohen" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Angry. I allow that to be my most, I understand I need to be very acute with my words. I'm ready when they go low to bury them. I'm up for the whole thing. What I'm not up for is to exhaust myself. In the process, from being in a state of total agitation without any sense of what I'm going to do about it, where I'm going to where I'm going to take my talents and my gifts, how I'm going to apply myself and what am I looking to accomplish and how can I be part of a greater body of people seeking that same end result? That you get there, you're unstoppable. We all get there together, we're unsolvable. You're all in our home screaming at our TV and then collapsing the exhaustion and depression. We're defeated. Yep. So I hope that's clear. Yeah. I get it. And I'll be speaking about how corrupt the Supreme Court is. I smell another, I smell and I smell another series in your future about the Supreme Court. Maybe was lying beneath the whatever. Yeah, the world beneath. Yeah, I'm literally writing the second season now, and we're working on it, I put it together. It's great. It's Supreme Court stuff in there? Well, there is a little tiny offshoot. I gotta admit, because I'm dealing with California. And Nevada, I'm dealing with Hollywood and Vegas. And so you can't do that without dealing with arties and. It was a big, he was the white cone before there was Roy Cohn. He was the original fixer. I had a Sacramento. I want to talk to you about that. Mickey, Mickey Cohen's godfather. Yeah. Okay. The heroin trafficker and make it go in the vicious gangster. So already some issues with his godfather. And his the lawyer, sole lawyer, was justice Anthony Kennedy's dad. And then when Kennedy, when his dad passed away of a heart attack, young, Kennedy had just gotten out of law school and he took over his father's practice. And then he went from that to becoming a justice, becoming a judge. So he had all of our missions books. Under attorney client privilege. LB, I do want to talk to you about another subject that I DMed you about. But before that, let me just say, are you a.
Discussions of Truth
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"Became a criminal defense lawyer of some node and then a legal analyst for the Tyson and Colby Bryant and O. J. Simpson cases and all of that. And then I began writing my books in 1992 and the first one was a biography of Mike Tyson. At his trial, I covered that for the networks and for USA Today. And that was my first book. I was very upset with the verdict in that case. I didn't think there was any evidence against him. And I've just been publishing one book after another. I think next year will be about 30 years of doing this and almost 30 books. They say I'm a prolific author, which is nice to hear. But everything changed in 2006 when I wrote writing a book about Melvin Belli, the attorney for Jack Ruby, who, as we all know, saw on television shot to Lee Harvey Oswald, just after the JFK assassination in 1963. And so I knew mister belly from practicing law with him in San Francisco in the 1980s. And I was very quizzical Ian as I know you would be as a curious guy. How he became ruby's lawyer because he was a personal injury lawyer. And then how he defended him with some ludicrous psychomotor epilepsy defense that made no sense to anybody, including the jury, wouldn't let ruby testify in all of that. And so what I found out about bellei and his main client at the time was a mafioso named Mickey Cohen made me really curious about what had happened how ruby how Belle I became Ruiz attorney. And then I began looking into that whole situation and went back to the 1960 election and onto then coming in contact with Dorothy kilgallen, who was the most credible reporter about the JFK assassination because unlike me and all the other authors and experts and everything who's written about the JFK assassination Dorothy was actually there at the ruby trial. The only one who interviewed Jack Ruby. And so taking her research and including it with mine, I've written the books. First of all, the poison patriarch about Joe Kennedy in 1960 election and the bestseller, the reporter of a new too much about Dorothy's investigation of the JFK assassination then denial of justice that exposed the ruby trial transcripts for the first time and showed that ruby was part of a plot to kill the president and the new one collateral damage, which for the first time I looked at something nobody else had done. I looked at the JFK assassination in context with the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and Dorothy kilgallen in 1965. You have to realize they died within 40 months of each other. And based on my research, which was a little aspect where frankly, because I looked at Dorothy kill gallons, I sorry, looked at the JFK assassination first that was 63, then Dorothy gilg Allen's death and her investigation in 65. And they're Maryland in 62, but it really opens up exactly what happened with the JFK assassination, which of course we celebrated with the celebrated. But the 58th anniversary was yesterday. And it really opens up everything because when you look at it that way, it changes what we've known about the JFK assassination because each of the three deaths are connected for the first time in collateral damage. And that's amazing how you've been able to connect those. I want to get your opinion on this, and I think the last time you were on the show, you I'm just going to throw this out there. I've recently I've recently had on his theology within the past 6 months, he joined my show..
Gangland Wire
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Gangland Wire
"Yano pulls his gun out. He starts shooting he just sticks it right up against broncos head and fires twice and then battalion he's frozen and he can't seem to get his gun out and friday. Oh screaming at him says. Get your gone out. God them and get your gun out. Then he has turn his gun and shoot the driver ciampino beano and he empties of the shoots rank kato twice in the back of the head and then empties. It'd be a thirty eight. That'd be six shots and then he shoots foul four more shots into trump beano and some of those went out through the Front glass when you look at the crime scene photographs. You can see all the holes in the windshield the other guy by then battalion. He finally gets his gun out and fires out and he probably shoots out the windshield too so they both jump out of the car and go getting their getaway car and take off probably as his first. We don't know for sure but it would probably was because he was scared to death he couldn't hardly get his gun out and he only really the only fired once according to this author here. I don't know if he did. Or how many frowns. It looked like it might have been more than just six row seven round shot as many hoses were in the windshield. Tell that he shot the guy in the passionate right in the head because there was no bullet holes in the windshield in front of the passenger but there were holes in the windshield in front of the driver. And that's the one that brought out shooting at from an angle and the guy behind him probably started shooting after he was already dead. It's thought that Friday on oh did not tell the boss. Jack dragnet battalions performance. Because he was he was he would not killed after that and he and friday on was pretty sure a told mickey cohen that he was pretty sure that battalion would have been killed if he'd dragnet found out i chickened out on the deal. They immediately drove away and went off. Safehouse took showers claim changed clothes and went back to this five o'clock club to continue the party and so everybody when they're call when they're they're arrested. They got witnesses alibi. Witnesses said they've been at the party all night and just as brad yano anticipated. The police were his door the next morning. These guys the coppers knew this was a mob hit and they knew that friday ana was be number one on the hip raid to. Maybe do a hit. They rest him and take him in. But friday auto was rep here reputation by then. It was a bad dude. And you gotta understand back in those days in the fifties it cops and the the mob guys were a lot closer so would be likely that they would know who was doing what and that they would at least go through the motions. But you know they're not gonna. Nobody's gonna testify. It's kind of like everybody. Pleasure part you're made guy you make sure everybody in your little circle no it and then they let go around bragging about. Oh yeah i'm with. I'm with the weasel you know with friday on. Oh he's made you know he's made because it makes it gives them a certain you know genesee quad certain extra something special that they can then use to protect themselves. Actually if they think you're with a made guy then you are going to be protected from certain other predatory criminals out there and these guys were losers man they they were..
Gangland Wire
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Gangland Wire
"He said that there was another. This is kind of how the two tonys ended up. You ask how they ended up out there and working for the la mob. Another guy named norfolk brand. Quedo was a relative of tony. Brian kato and a older brother and he had been working out there with The mob guys. And and mickey cohen liked him a said he was loyal and he had respect for people and he was a gentleman and he asked permission to bring his younger brother. Tony ron Who've been brought his friend. Anthony or tony trevino out with him to become part of cohen's crew because they worked for cohen for a while but as i said earlier cohen said in his own book that bronco was stepping out on his own. He was stealing from people he should been stealing from. He ripped off the Flamingo casino him and his buddy ripped off the flamingo. Casino cohen candidate thing about it. Anyhow he was in jail He was in prison in alcatraz they turn their turn turning. Jimmy the weasel loose on the two tonys he gets hold of benjamin bookmaker and benjamin bookmaker goes to jimmy the weasel and he tells him about the shake down and i'm sure what they don't say this that he had to go to jack dragnet and say here's the deal and jack. Donna would have to approve this kind of a hit. So once he approves the hit then jimmy. The weasel has the original bookmaker loas contact brand kato ciampino and set up a meeting and he sets it up and kind of a safe place at the home of wanted. Jimmy's friends and they when they showed up they were a little bit suspicious and friday. Yano tried to put them at ease and said you know. Hey i need some help. We we need to make a really good score. And i i need you to and they do to help and and we're gonna we've got a high stakes poker game where the take might be as much as forty thousand dollars. Well that sucked a man immediately. They got relaxed and they thought. Oh boy here's some money you know you can always get. You can always relaxed people when they get greedy. They just thought they were smarter than everybody else. And then when he when he played into their greed then he had him so now they trust friday on on they think. Oh yeah we're all going to get together and go make this big score forty grand in a high stakes poker game. Probably a bunch of businessmen or something that. Somebody's not a protected. Game wouldn't go. Rob a bunch of mob guys at forty thousand dollars in a protected game. Friday anos a made guy and they're just happy to be doing it big score with a made guy. That's how that works. So they all met one night a few days later they all met at nick. Licata hs five o'clock club and i'm not sure where that is in. La and he had the was kind of in on this. He'd planned a party at the club that evening. So the assassination team would have an alibi and from there..
Gangland Wire
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Gangland Wire
"Somebody had gotten hold of somebody and said hey these two dudes are coming out. They're tough guys and and maybe you can use them. They're looking for work and renate some muscle. I got out there and they became part of mickey cohen's crew. Mickey cohen was a gambler and was had been connected with the East coast mafia for a long time. And he'd move out to los angeles and had a book going out there. A sportsbook is making money maker for the mom and so he. He took these two guys in to muscle people. You know somebody odi money or he thought somebody wannabes. Bookies was cheating ninety way he could send syndrome beano brand the two tonys out and and muslim mickey cohen was interesting about mickey cohen. This is a my book that most people never heard of he co wrote with another author is is like hey you know he was part of. It wasn't just some mob expert gathering up public documents and writing stuff. This is mickey cohen. My own words in which he described this brand quedo always said Then he started stepping out on his own he was on the heavy and on the highest and he was high people that are contrary to the rules of the people he was supposed to have respected. Not only me but others about the two tonys they were wild haired young bloods that thought they were just going to run roughshod over everybody. I couldn't pay them much attention. Then because my troubles they thought they didn't have to show any respect for nobody. You know he. He was probably complaining to the mob. Boss jack dragged out there that these guys were out of control. They were robbing people they weren't supposed to rub and they weren't showing respect and cohen. Just he had his own problems and he didn't really have time he. He claims that he he tried to counsel. Tom tony brand kato. But the guy wouldn't listen to him in nineteen fifty one early summer. Nineteen fifty one. Mickey cohen was in penitentiaries. At alcatraz i believe at a federal charge for. I don't know probably income tax. I can't remember now. The two tonys had by this time had a combined record of. I got this written down here. Forty six arrest and seventeen convictions. Their crimes included aggravated assault. Armed robbery burglary narcotics violations. Rape of all things you never hear mob guys getting charged with rape and they were also suspected of several murders. Now those murders might have been for mickey cohen for jack dragnet the mob boss out there but these guys. They just didn't care they were. They were running wild then. They did the unthinkable at the time in june nineteen fifty one along with three other. Mass gunmen robbed the flamengo hotels. Cash room or flamingo. Casinos cash with thirty five hundred dollars. Now the flamengo was a mob hotel and casino and his guy named high go bomb. Who ran the book in las vegas and here is there. And he recognized brand on trombone he had been Go bomb claimed that he when he had a bookmaking operation in beverly hills. He'd been robbed by the pair before and additionally he has other identification besides knowing their faces. Was that brand. Kato hood always wore straw hat lost it and the police recovered the had. And of course the mob guys were gonna know exactly what kind of had that. The police recovered because they would have been pretty well connected with the local place in las vegas nevada in nineteen fifty one..
Gangland Wire
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Gangland Wire
"To tony's came out from kansas city. That's what caught my eye on this. I was noodling around looking for stories and interesting stories on the internet. And i kind of knew about this. But i'd forgotten about it. They were kind of minor mob guys in kansas city. Their real names for anthony ran kato and anthony. Joseph trombley know. These guys are kansas city and they really were just muscle for hire who had been arrested many times in kansas city. And like you know ambitious. Young men in the fifties. They might want to go to california to be aware the street. You're paid with gold out there. In hollywood sleep with those hollywood stars and and make a lot of money and and really take their their act to someplace where the police didn't know they. They chicago outfitted already. Kind of put The boston place out there. A guy named jack dragana. Who was a boston and these guys show up and they probably had some. Somebody had gotten hold of somebody and said hey these two dudes are coming out. They're tough guys and and maybe you can use them. They're looking for work and renate some muscle. I got out there and they became part of mickey cohen's crew. Mickey cohen was a gambler and was had been connected with the East coast mafia for a long time. And he'd move out to los angeles and had a book going out there. A sportsbook is making money maker for the mom and so he. He took these two guys in to muscle people. You know somebody odi money or he thought somebody wannabes. Bookies was cheating ninety way he could send syndrome beano brand the two tonys out and and muslim
Gangland Wire
Jimmy Frattiano and the Two Tonys
"To tony's came out from kansas city. That's what caught my eye on this. I was noodling around looking for stories and interesting stories on the internet. And i kind of knew about this. But i'd forgotten about it. They were kind of minor mob guys in kansas city. Their real names for anthony ran kato and anthony. Joseph trombley know. These guys are kansas city and they really were just muscle for hire who had been arrested many times in kansas city. And like you know ambitious. Young men in the fifties. They might want to go to california to be aware the street. You're paid with gold out there. In hollywood sleep with those hollywood stars and and make a lot of money and and really take their their act to someplace where the police didn't know they. They chicago outfitted already. Kind of put The boston place out there. A guy named jack dragana. Who was a boston and these guys show up and they probably had some. Somebody had gotten hold of somebody and said hey these two dudes are coming out. They're tough guys and and maybe you can use them. They're looking for work and renate some muscle. I got out there and they became part of mickey cohen's crew. Mickey cohen was a gambler and was had been connected with the East coast mafia for a long time. And he'd move out to los angeles and had a book going out there. A sportsbook is making money maker for the mom and so he. He took these two guys in to muscle people. You know somebody odi money or he thought somebody wannabes. Bookies was cheating ninety way he could send syndrome beano brand the two tonys out and and muslim
Gangland Wire
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Gangland Wire
"Some shows with them. And the i was friday on. I spend so much of my time and energy on my own podcast and my documentary films. That were not do guest appearance. They all seem to run together. I forgot i'd even done this. And it was released recently. Got a message from war tapper. Actually from down in australia all places who tells me they heard on another podcast token amount friday yano psycho man. I forgot all about that. So is finally released. I said oh. Pump them up a little bit not that they needed a huge big company. gimblett. Or somebody like that when the big podcasting company so they got a big budget as you tell what you listen to it but you get you get my take on things here and for me. That's that's what distinguishes me from from those guys but then how you can listen to wire the wire wire you can listen to the mafia on any of the podcast apps. Now for folks don't know we'll give you just kind of an overview of James alidina jimmy. The weasel prodi yano jimmy. The weasel got his nickname after a policeman was chasing him through market when he was a kid he said look at. Ken runs like a weasel He was born in naples italy. His family immigrated when he was a child on right after turn-of-the-century in the early nineteen hundreds. They settled in cleveland He started out as usual as all of them. Do a small time thief graduated. Robbery was kind of associated around with the cleveland mob. Because he was. Italian lived in an italian neighborhood after a stretch in the joint. I think for a robbery when which he didn't expect it was a businessman. He didn't expect this guy to testify against him but he did when he got out. A council was older my guys and and he decided he would move to california. This is about the end of world war two shortly after he got out there. He had some bona days as they call them from cleveland. Mickey cohen recruited him to help with his and loansharking operation. He did some of that but never really was exactly like a member of anybody's organization when he first got out there but the italian family the sicilian family out there did notice him of course and end up making his bones when they killed the two tonys from kansas city who had robbed some ma protected games. So i'm gonna do that. Talk more about that. In a bonus episode he was moving up the ranks in the southern california mob. He moved north was kind of associated with san francisco family. And you know this guy was kind of all over. The place is a little bit like Oh who's the guy from like a not hyphen by johnny rosselli. And he. but he had connections all over the world. he got some connections with the australian crime. Families down there doing business with them. And and he got involved in trucking business and transport business and somebody on the Dockworkers union in san francisco which was able to facilitate different kinds of smuggling operations and actually finally at one time. He was named the underboss of the southern california family with tom. Dragnet being the boss now right after he'd named him. I think they say friday yano thought maybe they named him because they want his help in killing his old friend. Frank the bump bump and ciero He didn't wanna do it. And he basically refused or didn't respond to the request to help. Kill the bob. This had raised raga. Who accused him of trying to start his own california family and ended up putting hit on motor him to be murdered about the same time. Mrs back in the seventies. I guess our early eighties but at the same time an old california associate who is now in cleveland name. Rafer rito was being charged with the famous murder of the irish labor racketeer. Danny green The feds turn frito. And he named friday as a co-conspirator these things a contract for murder on him from dragnet and the murder conspiracy charges brought by the feds. Talk about a of stick They brought him into the witness protection program and he became one of the more famous mob. Witnesses throughout the united states. He he because he had so many connections he was testifying all over the place and that i don't know four or five years maybe for all his past crimes got killed a bunch of people to as like sammy the bulls doing right now. They're making podcast. No telling what all in you know. Kill like twenty three guys. I don't know how many killed a bunch of guys anyhow. So as i was bony nap on the weasel study nap on jimmy. The weasel to be on me. An expert on the mafia podcast. I discovered a guy who had been his civil attorney for business matters especially when he had a trucking company that was pretty successful and he wanted to file a civil lawsuit against somebody You'll hear more about that. I searched around. Found this guy at home on his retirement ranch in montana and he agreed to talk about his time with jimmy. The weasel and what makes this an even more insightful. Talk information this guy is that he and friday on cape friends got to know each other under social level after jimmy went into witness protection so for a different view and look at one of the most famous mobsters ever to go into witness protection program and one of the most productive for the government. I would say listen to my interview of Jimmy friday on friend and business attorney dennis macdonald. So tell tell me. Tell me about your when he first came into your office that day. First of all. I should tell you that I represented Jimmy fatty onnell for over. Twenty years I first met him. He was referred to me by another long time Client and A person that i didn't know at that time. But he was kind of Jimmy's goal or if you will on day trucking company in hayward california and i represented him on business matters for years he when he furred Jimmy to me. And jimmy came in and wanted to commence a defamation lawsuit against bob guccione and penthouse magazine written beecher article suggesting that jimmy was a infamous hitman responsible for Multiple gang-land Swings the at the time jimmy had never been Arrested had not been charged With any murder or any violent crime. Other than i think he an assault charge in his Background but that was that was about it. We commenced that Litigation and ultimately s settled it with a penthouse magazine and bob guccione. The interesting part of that is is afterwards. I ended up representing mr guccione and an effort that he was making to acquire a gaming licence in the state of about which had been denied to him previously. What might that much about. Nineteen seventy or six of my right in there. They have this check at date but That's my recollection. Okay so Then after you settled you maintain the relationship with with jimmy. Is that correct. But that is jimmy was a Just an odd person. And i say that and i'll describe it to you. I think you find that many f. b. i. agents that Taught him to be similar to what. I'm about to describe first of all it was. It was very bright. Had a just a incredible Memory very good at that numbers From probably for making book since she was a teenager actually an excellent chess player. I'll come back to that part of the story later. In addition to the characteristics. I've i mentioned he had a great sense humor And he could tell stories and all of this be Laughing and enjoying the story and then afterwards you would realize he just told a story about Some terrible activity that he was involved it. He was so charismatic that he could Calbos kind of stories and Decent good people would find themselves least initially Enjoying this story and and laughing until maybe later as was my experience you realize woody was telling you which was a poor during this time supposedly. I think there's fbi report. Tony squadra made him an offer of at least ten thousand dollars or more to keep quiet about him and and the fbi report says that he contacted a lawyer. Jimmy contacted lawyer about that advised. Him not have anything to do was blood. Troas was anything to do with you. Do you remember that. I do remember that. And i you see what that dot came a bit later. to fill in the the story In about nineteen ninety It became apparent after offense. Heroes killing in Los angeles the powers to be in the los angeles family wanted Jimmy get and jimmy became aware of that and came out with the number of plans to deal with it. All of which. I told him was Crazy jimmy was getting up in age at the time I finally told jimmy that it was time for him to live the last part of his life in peace and to come to terms with much of his background. I mentioned Early jimmy was an excellent chess player. It was at the house he would. He would come to my home early frequently. He loved to cook with t. Came a couple of occasions they could Banks giving dinner for my family and and and but one ninety was He was air And Because he had been charged in the chiro swang and needed wanted me to represent him in that case and needed to get from.
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"mickey cohen" Discussed on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
"Wookey. Hole cheddar cheese. Nazi go actually. Did he ask this date from a terribly. It was delicious. Light worke is much better than you feel bad as you because you you'll roots terribly. I've got frost right written down there. It's just like it's like frost nixon. I don't wanna put oh. I thought we could sit for you if you ever come back to the uk off the egg. If now is better than that. Going square peg around in g play a nerdy man much stretch. Yeah he works in a manhole. We should talk about this. I like it i like. I'm really good at pitching. I'm not ready like go back in time in the show we'll cross over with my other word. Maybe maybe all of my comes to just get nuts. It's like it's like noneya from way and you could just pick like different episodes of good night so we crash and being and then when you watch goodnight sweetheart back you picks extras that. You are in the retroactive exciting project. I'm not gonna do. You didn't go to mcdonald's until you were twenty three years old now. I went to mcdonald's the first time on june. The nineteenth thousand nine hundred ninety three. And i had a triple thick milkshake from the one at the top of tunnel code and the reason i know that is because i was in london to see return of the jedi. I and i. I remember the date of return of the jedi and that search for that reason whereas i remember the day of my first. Mcdonald's triple thick milkshake and it was like an amazingly exotic thing and little. Did i know it was like the petro strawberries the same. Because i didn't. I didn't go to mcdonalds. My mom dad would never let me go to mcdonald's we did. We know great chance. That wasn't donald. There's one in bristol. Just kind of cleverly almost made me realize that tells about sixteen. I didn't realize these things even existed. Vegetarian when i was eighteen about. Two years of eating mcdonagh's weird to think there was a time when you could. You're trying to stop your kids eating fast food charity. I'm trying to stop watching the phantom menace for a and it's difficult though because they start off when you got this little blank canvas never eaten anything bad. Everything's organic and then eventually saga is ice cream. And you want to encourage them to dangerous. They my parents wouldn't let me very rare. Let me sweets. And they would very rarely do that stuff. And then just just dream of the day like charlie bucket dreaming of the day. I would get like a bar chocolate to myself. You know we do not chocolate. We got to share it between my brother and my sister just the idea of having a chocolate myself it was just seemed. Impossible at my. My ambitions have bunch of myself and have the blunt one from my bedroom and just had pants. I still wanted chocolate. Be perfect and so. When i had the means to by myself trump four plunged one from aba. I did so with gusto. An h. b. castle. That's what i'm saying. And you spend a lotta time imagining in somebody's of matter very much because there's been done in it but you go. I spend a lot of my time. You imagine zombie attacks on how you escape from them real life. I kind of i spend imagining terrorist atrocities. Which more likely and i in my imagination on really brave kind of hoping. I'll be in one just to test whether there's somebody stands up about. That's my waistcoat death. Yeah you jump on the muslims workout in the westfield and especially now that becoming more terrifying. But i was terrified before i've gotten to westbound. I'm workout where they would be and then working out when starbucks. I could run on the stairs. And then when they know where can hydrogen the corner so when they come up the stairs. I hate them. I would get their machine clearly. We're going to get other ones with that. And then it will go what do you what do you worry is that the police would seem with. A machine. Gun at sumo's is one of the terrorists. Take me out. And then i go won't go but no he saved every bit complex. That's why match ever comes up. See see i actually i was. I was in an airplane. My wife on a honeymoon. I think it was a flight to mauritius and a man fell out of the like the dasa me flew open and he's just fell out like he's fainting and we thought it was going to happen. We like leads it but nothing happened by literally. All i did was sit up slightly and go feel i was going to do that. Was it no no bravery tour. Now i'd be disarmed. Sure i would be very nice into my imagination. A man follow me on the plane meters. Talk about it in the most podcast so back to that. If you want to hear my story. Is there anything about the tv series space that you have never seen before. If so say probably not to be honest other than the. They'll never be anymore. We get asked. I'm sorry. I did not ask that question and that question and the reason not because because it just didn't happen when it should have happened there was a there was a window and we could have done it and it just didn't happen and because of shaun of the dead because of what michelle and the daddy took a different direction and coming back to space and i'm sad about that because i think we had another series in it wasn't a too serious show. It was like there was another series and there was a ten to would have eventually. They were a huge romantic coming together for those two would have been cheesy and happy and that was all to come but it never did we go. Maybe an episode of square peg around talk. Go into the sewer underneath house. That's it all my problems i mean. You're you're unlikely to come back and do you case at any point in your life. Now don't you never say never thing. That tv now is that it's it's not changing. It's tv's almost won the war with film away. Because it's the trickle. Cinema is is on the ropes. Really is doing everything it can to not be three d. and max and capes and spaceships and stuff. The fact is with our homes becoming like cinemas we have. Tv's that look like cinema screens. People getting more inclined to stay in and not just because you lose the communal experience. The whole point of films in the cinema isn't really seeing the big screen at seeing them together with people. You don't know nigga sharing something that's beautiful but that's kind of i hope he doesn't die with it's dying but what's interesting and i do think your your films. That you the blockbusters you're not different to this but this is becoming too cliche into obvious and then something like breaking bad. Yes amazing deep thing that you can engage with the characters and the seat. No tv actually offers more scope writers and actor viewer. I think i think is going back to. I think it's going. It's becoming the place where a lot of serious acting is happening. And yet i just did a. I just did a pilot and the us for a show called mob city which is like a sort of. It's all san mickey cohen era era of like forty seven in la when the lapd was struggling with the immorality amrozi going on and it's directed by frank darabont into the shawshank redemption and. It's got some amazing people in it and it's it's it's a very attractive place factors to go now. You know i feel like it's no longer film sort of poor cousin but I just wanna. I the hardest thing about my job is i have to be away so much. Yeah i i literally this. We worked out there that we sat down this year. I did.
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"mickey cohen" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"Aggie underwood turn the plastic baggie over. In her hands. She narrowed her is to give the harry contents. Closer inspection what i look at. She asked mickey cohen puffed on wet cigar. Mickey dumped a pile of opened envelopes on aggies desk. Love letters from attorney. Johnny stompanato raised eyebrow and then unfolded letter in hand proceeded to read a passage of lawa's expressive handwriting out loud. I need to touch you to feel your tenderness in your strength. The whole you in my arms. So so close to cuddle you sweetly and then to be completely smothered in your arms and kisses. Oh so many kisses aggie raised or other eyebrow looked at mickey. Oh so many kisses. Mickey cohen was in buying on a story. The one about stomp walking into cheryl's knife. He knew when something smelled off. And this whole. Stop homicide stunk. to high heaven. He was a betting man and he was. He put his money on. Lana turner as the knife-wielder the kid was just taking the fall and he was further convinced that the dirty was confidentially leaking to his good friend aggie underwood city editor the los angeles herald express painted a very clear picture. That picture was that. Lana turner was head over heels in love with the man who wound up dead in her house. She wasn't scared of the letters offered contradictory testimony. That in no way was stop as often violent as he was being portrayed by. Lana in her lawyers. How you didn't care if it was the truth or not. A scoop was a scoop. She just knew would sell papers and so while. Readers devoured her steamy love letters in the papers of took the witness. Stand for the coroner's inquest into the homicide. Or johnny stop the nado to non believers like fucking gangster. Mickey cohen ladas. Long testimony was the performance of her career deep breaths the filter longs before she spoke the white gloves schumer while she twisted her hands together the plate up anguish the fever. She anxiety the tears. She been so convincing since the postman always rings twice or so. Mickey cohen thought when mickey cohen was asked to testify. He did what he always did when he was put in a courtroom in front of a microphone. He didn't say nothing about nobody. He leaned forward from the witness chair. Breath heavy on the courts. Mike and said i refuse to identify the person in question. John stompanato junior on the grounds that. I may be accused of this murder. He was on the stand all of two minutes. He left and bought a cheap coffin for stops body. He put up cash for funeral expenses but he was a no show at the ceremony. His presence was required in another courtroom in la to face charges for punching out a prick. Waiter who had accidentally spilled hot coffee over a suit in front of frank sinatra no less. Meanwhile a twelve man. Coroner's jury quickly ruled. Johnny stompanato death a justifiable homicide and there will be no charges pressed against lana turner or cheryl crane. The inquest did however shed some light on monitor skills as a parent. The district attorney found them lacking and cheryl became a ward of the court. Listen station on media. Circus surrounding the drama. Lana turner's life did have a positive impact somewhere ticket sales for peyton place for up thirty percent. All being spilled over. Lonon stop turned the socio soap opera into the second-highest grossing film of nineteen fifty a year. Later the media circus had settled cheryl was living with their grandmother. The movie lana had made monday. Was sean connery another place. Another time bomb. Lana was down. Not quite out. She was offered a lead role in. Douglas irks higher melodrama imitation of life. But there was a catch. She would have to forego a traditional salary in exchange for a percentage of the film's prophets. It was a gamble. Big time but it also paid really big time. Lana wanda making two million dollars off the deal. Which in nineteen fifty nine was the highest salary in american actress had ever earned for film into think just years before she was no not as a legitimate actress but as the sweater girl the one who provice kisses to red blooded american males with war bond receipts in hand it was a positive turn of events it perhaps proof that the house did not always win and now the goal would be to maintain that newfound positively fly street love. Well do good. Stay away from the wrong side of the wrong person whether or not lana turner would be able to do all of that. Well that's another story then oughta be in pictures..
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"mickey cohen" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"Lana didn't even know the johnny stop. Was johnny stop. When they began dating he told her his name was john steele. He didn't mention anything. About mickey cohen. Earthshaking down hollywood's elite with blurry titi picks in fact. Lana didn't know much about the guy. Besides the fact that he really liked her and he worked hard winner over. She soon found out that john steele was a bunch of bullshit and it stops day-to-day business was a lot darker and more violent that you could have ever imagined that darkness and that violence crept into their day to day. Life stop was quick to anger. Impulsive spoke with this fist when he was tired of speaking with his mouth for word of his broken record threats was the one he made to slice up his face with a knife render unemployable and if llamas daughter fourteen year old cheryl crane was nearby. He'd extend the threat to her. To threats. Turn to show shoves to smacks max. Bruises and this was a huge problem. Lana wanted out. she wanted. Stop to move on but stop. Wasn't the moving on tight. As far as he was concerned lana belonged to him and the story the fear of retribution. By stop or maybe worse. By mickey cohen was paralyzing and it was impossible to know just who was in cohen's pocket so a lot of kept a relationship with stop on the down. Low the opportunity to star in another place another time seemed like a god sent it answer to prayers. Because it's all the way to london. Far away from hollywood in very very far away from johnny stompanato in the distance only manage to make things worse stop. Couldn't sit still back. He was being fed a steady diet of rumors that his girl was getting hot and heavy with their coaster. Meanwhile he was stuck sitting around. La like a real chump and so we did a thing. That only a jealous violent extortionist would do. He took matters into his own hands. When johnny stompanato hit the film set in london he stuck out like a sore thumb. Lime green suit silk shirt on buttoned all the way to his waist. Tiny pistols for cufflinks entitled american gangster attitude. He muscled his way past. Lana just like always. He went straight for connery. Hand outstretched cold thirty eight tucked inside. His fist. stomp was mumbling something to the effect of didn't know how they did it in scotland and even get to shits either. This was how they did it in america. And this was sean. Connery had coming at six foot. Two brogue avid pencil. Fuck the cameras. Were still rolling in stop. Made his move lama screamed. The revolver was aimed directly at connery's chest. Someone yelled cut with stop was in over his head. Connery was ex. Royal navy decent. Honest upstanding straight up bad ass connery. Move fast. He shielded lana behind his body with his left arm. His right hand grabbed onto stars wrist and gave it a quick twist. Something snapped stop. Holler connery ripped a gun from stomp. Slim hand tossed it onto the ground. A few crewmembers gas stop grabbed his injured hand. You scottish fuck. He snarled took one step towards connery. Connery move fast again. He brought his right arm back fist. Clenched deck johnny stompanato. Right in the nose. Stop nurse the busted. Shaw's and the next plane back to the states having been deported by scotland yard for bringing an unlicensed firearm into the country it was a bad look and it didn't make mickey cohen happy. Less was johnny stop nado who returned to los angeles with more than simply his pride wounded. He was insulted rejected jonesing for some kind of physical revenge and he had officially become the most dangerous person in lana turner's life. We'll be right back after this word were were who doesn't want instant gratification. Credit karma money is a brand new checking account where you can win. Cash reimbursements for making purchases. Credit karma. Money has already given away over three million dollars. 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His mind was set on the glass of wild turkey waiting for him backstage. And the sooner we got this formality over and done with the sooner you get to put more bourbon on his lips in this particular role. Presenter at the nineteen fifty-eight academy awards ceremony was an obligation. Not something he wanted to do but something that was expected do trade it. In his customary monument valley duds for black and white tux. He reached the podium exchange. Some pre written banter. With mc bob hope and then envelope in hand preceded list off the names of the performers of for best actress deborah kerr on almanac elizabeth taylor joanne woodward and her performance in peyton place lama turner. Peyton place have been released a few months earlier. In december of nineteen fifty seven just in time to be oscar worthy. It wasn't exactly a box office smash in the controversial novel that it was based on have been a huge hit in one thousand nine hundred fifty six despite the negative reviews. The critics called a trash. The book depicted the underbelly of seemingly idyllic small town. Life with nods incest abortion adultery and murder in the readers who kept it on the new york times bestseller lists for over a year did so by buying and reading it in secret it was the fifty shades of grey of the fifties and the movie screenplay was written by john michael hayes who had just come off running a four picture run for alfred hitchcock including rear window to catch a thief. Hayes have toned down much of the novel's explicit sexuality in with journeymen director mark robeson at the helm the phil wound up a big screen. Soap opera still. It was a soap opera. that allowed. Lana deflects her. Acting chops improved for once and for all that she was more than just a pretty face. Lana couldn't say she was surprised as she. Along with the rest of the oscars crowd watched joanne woodward race to the stage to collect your gold statuette with duke revealed her name inside the envelope as they say. It was an honor simply to be nominated for lana turner. Being made award worthy. Was something worth celebrating to join in the celebration. Lana broader mother and her daughter cheryl crane with her to the.
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"mickey cohen" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
"The phone. Ringing in sean. Connery's room at the hollywood. Roosevelt hotel woke him up from his power now looked at the clock next to the bed eleven thirty. Am he needed to get back on set soon. The phone rang again. It's probably a wake up. Call courtesy of walt disney. His current employer who had him on loan from twentieth century. Fox connery picked up the receiver. Not dizzy heavy breathing. And then a common introduction more tortoise than hair this is the voice on the other line said connery had some idea. The voice was deep. Sounded like a sinus infection. Infection with a grudge but the voice wasn't interested in connery guesses rhetorical question. The voice said and then the voice introduced itself. as cohen connery. Knew who he was correct. Good deal the reason for his call again. That was rhetorical. Mickey has some friendly advice. One time only vice. Listen up listen closely. Kept a out of los angeles. And what if he did he comb would send one of his boys around sean connery with a free lesson. The lesson he should have been taught already now. Connery knew what that was. All about that thing that happened on the set of his last fill that thing that happened abroad but managed to humiliate mickey cohen from over five thousand miles away. London nineteen fifty seven. Sean connery had been handpicked to share top billing in another time another place by the film's co star and love interest. Lana turner chose the twenty six year. Old scott for a major role in a major british. Melodrama he odor is career. this is pre bod connery. Were talking about pre anything connery really but at six foot two devastatingly handsome and with that soon to be iconic action. He was easily a leading man in anyone's eyes mono newly men as good as they look. They often serve to make her look even better as if that was even possible. There was john garfield in the postman always rings twice the nineteen forty six film noir. Were lana got to play the fem fatale and there was kirk. Douglas and the bad and the beautiful. The nineteen fifty two drama were lana was robbed of an academy award nomination for best. Supporting actress. erode industry was so low recognize tower that they nominated her co gloria grahame instead. Despite the fact that graham was on screen for amir nine and a half minutes at the time the shortest performance to ever win an oscar awards were nice and all but fame and power were better. Lana was attracted to the men who had one or the other even though many of them treated her badly mickey rooney frank sinatra robert stack gene kupa howard hughes peter lawford by the time she arrived in london in nineteen fifty seven. She was working on divorce number. Four this one from lex barker an actor known for playing tarzan but who would be known better as shitty husband allegedly and even shittier stepfather to ladas preteen daughter in laws is connery was as good as it could be honest. Decent upstanding the too good on like a house fire. Connery showed her around. The big black smoke took her to the best restaurants in a her shows. In the fashionable west end there was one person however who did not appreciate all the attention. Lana was receiving from scottish coaster. Llamas american boyfriend at the time. Johnny stompanato johnny was irate. That's putting it mildly. He saw read before. We even ported nonstop flight from los angeles to london. His intentions weren't exactly a secret. He was going to fucking kill sean connery. Johnny stompanato have been plucked from obscurity. just like sean connery. but in stops case. His benefactor wasn't a blonde. Hollywood bombshell mickey cohen. Who fold stop up from the depths of the low level extortion racket and gave him purpose. Stop quickly became mickey's bagman driver. The who got his hands dirty when he didn't wanna fuck up his nice press suits stopped in mind getting dirty. He'd gotten into organized crime on the dirtiest level extorting the upper-crust of la with nude photos and recordings either. Pay top dollar for made himself studio. Fixers like eddie mannix at mgm would happily tossed some hush box at stop if it meant that their contracts squeaky clean public image wouldn't be dragged through very public muck. La's finest new stock was dirty. And they pinched him over and over again but nothing ever stock vagrancy armed robbery. Illegal possession of a firearm. They put stop under the harsh interrogation room lights. When someone put a hole through edward nettie herber with a shotgun what he walked a free man on that too. It never said nothing. Just like mickey tottenham. Contrary to what micky at tottenham stopped knew that his own survival sometimes meant that he had a turn on his own people. Give the cops what they wanted. Sometimes it was a name other times and address a piece of gossip that he had caught floating through baseman office. Where weekly takes it. Stop always knew.
DISGRACELAND
"mickey cohen" Discussed on DISGRACELAND
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Mafia
"mickey cohen" Discussed on Mafia
"Business like nothing happened and dragnet really wanted to take that over. He figured once Bugsy was out of the way he could take over all of his loansharking in business as a result dragged his gang attended several hits on cohen's life fraud. Diana was a part of several of these hits. One of the stories that i remember is jimmy and his wife jewel in his in his daughter. A net going to see mickey cohen having a nice meal and when they walked out his wife his daughter obviously didn't know this but he arranged for several hitman outside to kill maki cohen. Right after he left so he signaled them to do that. And bob zero was involved in that. And just speaking to mickey's dumb. Luck as jimmy would call it moffat. Sarah handed off a shotgun to one of the hitman and the hitmen grabbed the shotgun wrong and accidentally blew his own head off right there on the street. The shot the shotgun going off on the street. you know. Jimmy's wife and daughter yelling and screaming. Jimmy shaking his head like he can't win and and the rest of the guys storming into the building and all jimmy remember seeing is watching. Mickey cohen running down the alleyway outside. The building is running as little heart out knowing and jimmy knowing that he's going to get away with it he's gonna get get out and he's know they're not going to get them. I think they were eleven attempts on mickie's life and on one occasion The they were gonna kill. Mickey where the bomb and they put enough dynamite under mickey's bed at his home in the in the basement as jimmy would do would tell you the bugger. Got drunk that night and fell asleep on the couch. Meanwhile the bomb went off in the bedroom was sent into orbit and mickey was just fine. Dragnet gang never were able to kill mickey cohen but in nineteen fifty. One mickey cohen was sent to jail for tax evasion effectively ending the rivalry then.
KQED Radio
"mickey cohen" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Maybe to do him in the Mickey Cohen. Selena. We're gonna celebrate to Monterey and Tallulah Republican Mexicana a most. When I mess up my Spanish. I felt this pang of humiliation and panic. But Selina was messing up Spanish all the time. And she did it with joy or like that, And it was just like saying that you couldn't be that. Let's pack it in and show that by the recent Carollo Mingo, no therapy of around that's I said Rock when she sang her Spanish sounded just fine, but she didn't learn to speak it until she was an older teenager. Here was Selena saying stuff wrong, translating out loud, struggling for words in Spanish and sometimes English. Just like me. It's just like a cute name, like Hi, Buffy what he did, but the you know, like gutting you like comedies Union. Like, uh, you know, that's first place like, uh, when you know you hamburger Patty switch between Spanish and English, Mexican and American in the public eye on there were no crude jokes. No shame in her accent. Just adoration. She declared herself a crowd. Mexico even gonna get way up. There is messing with the use of the 70 Kanna. To me. It was as if she told Mexico I don't sound like you. But this heritage is mine to claim to. You know what I bring on the opportunities and you're Ponyo's mama Chica. Pero hours. Come on, look, I started but I think it's never too late to get close to your roots should say her identity as a Mexican American wasn't some novel, detailed people would find out about her. No, it was central to her presentation as an artist, and as a person she was explicitly Mexican American. 90 94..
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Mickey, Cohen and Trump discussed on This Morning with Gordon Deal
"To women who had information that he believed would be detrimental, to the two thousand. Sixteen, campaign and to the candidate and the campaign facing up to five years, in prison the admissions were a dramatic change from Cohen's earlier. Boasts that he