Mickey Cohen was born in Brooklyn in 1913, but his widowed mother brought him to Boyle Heights when he was still a baby.According to a 1972 article in Los Angeles, he first started hustling at age ...

Gangster Mickey Cohen (Image: GETTY) Bombs, machine guns and a lead pipe – tough guys tried the lot on gangster Mickey Cohen but they could not kill him.

Hollywood Gangster, Mickey Cohen, knew, and worked with, all the major underworld players, from Bugsy Siegel to Lucky Luciano to Meyer Lansky. He also… ...

In L.A., the Gangster Squad didn’t have to rely on fuzzy photos to add names to files that now filled a wall of cabinets in City Hall. Small victories, that was their reality. Like when Mickey ...

Gangster Mickey Cohen at home in Los Angeles, 1949. Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Not originally published in LIFE. Mickey Cohen's wife, LaVonne, at home in Los Angeles, 1949.

About a 1949 war between a secret unit of the Los Angeles Police Department and sadistic gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), “Gangster,” like “L.A. Confidential,” focuses on the uneasy ...

Mickey had arrived between 8:30 and 9 p.m. in his new, black Caddy, accompanied by his bulldog, Mickey Jr. The dog had his own checkered bib so he could eat in style off a plate at his master’s ...

Penn plays gangster Mickey Cohen as an over-the-top psycho, ... If, as Stephen Colbert has said, "the movies is where Americans learn their history," Gangster Squad is just noisy disinformation.

Based very loosely on a true story, Gangster Squad tells the tale of a group of L.A. police officers brought together with the express purpose of bringing down ruthless crime lord Mickey Cohen ...