About: Sam Frank LoCigno

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LoCigno was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided before going to California. He had grown up in Cleveland while Mickey Cohen was there, and after Cohen moved west to serve as muscle for Bugsy Siegel, LoCigno came too. But with only one jail term on his sheet, five days for speeding, he seemed little more than "a flunky and errand boy for Mickey," as a probation officer put it. Lo Cigno once described himself as an unemployed bartender and asphalt salesman to police when caught in a raid on a bookie ring overseen by Cohen gang member Al Levitt, but somehow managed to drive a new Cadillac. LoCigno also allegedly had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, whom he met through his association with Cohen.

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rdfs:comment	LoCigno was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided before going to California. He had grown up in Cleveland while Mickey Cohen was there, and after Cohen moved west to serve as muscle for Bugsy Siegel, LoCigno came too. But with only one jail term on his sheet, five days for speeding, he seemed little more than "a flunky and errand boy for Mickey," as a probation officer put it. Lo Cigno once described himself as an unemployed bartender and asphalt salesman to police when caught in a raid on a bookie ring overseen by Cohen gang member Al Levitt, but somehow managed to drive a new Cadillac. LoCigno also allegedly had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, whom he met through his association with Cohen.
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abstract	LoCigno was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided before going to California. He had grown up in Cleveland while Mickey Cohen was there, and after Cohen moved west to serve as muscle for Bugsy Siegel, LoCigno came too. But with only one jail term on his sheet, five days for speeding, he seemed little more than "a flunky and errand boy for Mickey," as a probation officer put it. Lo Cigno once described himself as an unemployed bartender and asphalt salesman to police when caught in a raid on a bookie ring overseen by Cohen gang member Al Levitt, but somehow managed to drive a new Cadillac. LoCigno also allegedly had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, whom he met through his association with Cohen. Lo Cigno is best known for being the alleged killer of Hollywood mobster Jack Whalen, who was known as "The Enforcer". The murder took place on December 2, 1959, shortly before midnight, in a restaurant known as Rondelli’s in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County in the presence of Mickey Cohen and several of his associates. Allegedly Whalen had made threats against George Piscitelle and Lo Cigno regarding a gambling debt. After the shooting LoCigno left the restaurant where it all transpired and remained in hiding for several days before surrendering to the police and stating that he had shot Whalen in self-defense. LoCigno was indicted for the murder and was convicted of murder in the first degree; his motion for new trial was denied, he was sentenced to life in prison. Authorities considered LoCigno a "flunky and errand boy" for Mickey and were far from convinced he pulled the trigger. But he had confessed, and the only diner who admitted seeing anything at Rondelli's was a horse bettor, called Hollywood Al, who'd had 20 drinks. What became of LoCigno after he was imprisoned is unknown.

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