Mob Talk: Sinatra asks “Jimmy The Weasel” to BREAK LEGS of Bodyguard? | Jimmy Fratianno
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In this video, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno , a Los Angeles Wiseguy discusses Jilly Rizzo asking Him to break a former bodyguards legs on behalf of Frank Sinatra. Jimmy The Weasel also discusses becoming a Made Man in the Mafia and what led to his cooperation with the government.
Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno (November 14, 1913 – June 30, 1993) was an Italian-born American mobster originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and later acting head of the Los Angeles crime family before becoming a US government witness. Fratianno was the most powerful mobster to become a federal witness until Sammy "the Bull" Gravano agreed to testify against the Gambino crime family in 1991.
Rare Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno Interview Part 1-2 (1981) ABC News
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia. Since its inception in the early 20th century, the family has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the Los Angeles crime family gained wealth and power through bootlegging alcohol during the Prohibition era. The L.A. family reached its peak strength in the 1940s and early 1950s under Jack Dragna, although the family was never larger than the New York or Chicago families. The Los Angeles crime family itself has been on a gradual decline, with the Chicago Outfit representing them on The Commission since the death of boss Jack Dragna in 1956.
The sources for much of the current information on the history of the Los Angeles Cosa Nostra family is the courtroom testimony and the published biographies of Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, who in the late 1970s became the second member – and the first acting boss – in American Mafia history to testify against Mafia members, and The Last Mafioso (1981), a biography of Fratianno by Ovid Demaris. Since the 1980s, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) has been effective in convicting mobsters and shrinking the American Mafia; like all families in the United States, the L.A. Mafia now only holds a fraction of its former power. Not having a strong concentration of Italian Americans in the region leaves the family to contend with the many street gangs of other ethnicities in the city. The Los Angeles crime family is the last Mafia family left in the state of California
In the shadowy realm of organized crime, one figure defied expectations and forever altered the landscape of the Mafia. Jimmy the weasel Fratianno, once an influential American mobster and the acting boss of the Los Angeles crime family, made an unprecedented choice that sent shockwaves through the criminal underworld. Becoming a government witness, Fratianno turned his back on his former associates, breaking the code of silence and unraveling the tightly woven fabric of organized crime. This dramatic turn of events thrust him into the spotlight, as his testimony became a crucial weapon in the fight against the very empire, he once helped build.
Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno interview.
In 1946, a young man by the name of Jimmy Fratianno moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Los Angeles, California. Fratianno had spent most of his life immersed in crime, crossing paths with several well known mobsters. Fratianno would soon become a made man in the Los Angeles crime family, gaining a reputation as someone who was willing to do "whatever it takes" to get the job done. But as the landscape of the LA crime family changed, so did Fratianno’s status. Disagreements with high ranking members would put his life in danger, leading Fratianno to make a life-changing decision.
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