This is a story about a famous mobster. Born September 4, 1913, Brooklyn, New York, Mikey Cohen. Mikey Cohen was born into a poor Jewish family just like most other American Gangsters. Mikey started out hustling newspapers in New York City. At the age of 9 his family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles (The Mob Museum).
As soon as they first got there Mikey was already getting in trouble and was sent to reform school where he learned amateur boxing skills. His mother ran a tiny grocery store while Mikey and his brothers operated a drug store, where he learned to bootleg alcohol. When Mikey was 15 years old he moved to Cleveland in hopes of becoming a professional boxer. April 8, 1930, Mikey had his first professional fight against Patsy Farr’s in Cleveland and won.
According to Boxrec Mikey ended his own career with a record of 7 wins, 11 losses, and 1 draw (The Mob Museum). After winning his first professional fight in Cleveland did lose five times in a row. Most of his professional fight where in Cleveland but there was two in Los Angeles and another in Chicago. Mikey’s nickname while fighting was “Gangster Mikey Cohen”.
While In Cleveland Mikey Cohen was arrested for Armed Robbery but got away with it and even met associates of Moe Dalitz (The Mob Museum).
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Mafia boss Jack Dragna saw Mikey as his main rival. After Dragna was disrespected by Mikey war broke out on the streets of L.A. and many attempts to kill Mikey were tried. They ambushed him on the streets, restaurants and even bombed his house, but they always seemed to fail. Even local law enforcement went after Mikey with a “vengeance”. The entire underworld was unmasked by a Kefauver committee who was formed by Senator Estes Kefauver and chaired during 1950-51. It was exposed on television. After the committee the feds indicted, tried, and convicted Cohen of tax evasion. And he was sentenced to four years in federal prison, it was his first time being