Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel the name is appropriate because organized crime is such a lightweight in Southern California," said Gates, who referred to Southern California crime families as "the Mickey Mouse Mafia...
...ANGELES--A bid by organized crime members to take over $1 million weekly bookmaking operations here was cut short yesterday with the arrests of 20 people, including the reputed crime boss of Southern California, police said...
Among those arrested was Peter John Milano, "considered to be the head of organized crime" in Southern California, police Chief Daryl Gates said...
Although Gates identified several of those arrested as associates of crime families in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Florida, he said the effort to take over the bookmaking was not controlled by those families...
...important thing here is that bookmakers in Southern California are not organized ... We have managed to keep organized crime from doing that," he said...