Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was a gangster based in Los Angeles and part of the Jewish Mafia, and also had strong ties to the American Mafia from the 1930s through 1960s.
Meyer Harris Cohen, known as Mickey Cohen, was born in New York City, New York, September 4, 1913 to Max and Fanny Cohen, Russian-Jewish immigrants, natives of Kiev, Russia, who came to New York, according to Cohen, sometime around turn-of-the-century.
John Alite and Gotti met in their teens and began engaging in criminal enterprises, according to federal prosecutors. Alite has testified that he and Gotti ran a cocaine trafficking ring in the Forest Hills section of Queens and extracted a tax from other dealers. By the 1990s, Alite says that the ring was earning $1 million a month.
In 2001, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano turned on Gambino crime boss John Gotti and sent him to prison. Do you know who made the deal with Gravano? ROBERT MUELLER
n January 2008, Alite secretly pleaded guilty to two murders, four murder conspiracies, at least eight shootings and two attempted shootings as well as armed home invasions and armed robberies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, although he confessed to have murdered up to 15 people and shooting approximately 37 people.[3] The maximum penalty for the charges is life in prison. Alite agreed to testify in the trial of Gambino familyenforcer Charles "Charlie Canig" Carneglia, who was found guilty of four murders and is now serving a life sentence.
Michael Cohen's uncle, Morton Levine, owned and ran a Brooklyn social club, El Caribe, which was a well-known meeting spot for members of Italian and Russian organized crime families in the 1970s and 1980s.