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In the 1940s, Niccoli was reportedly a bodyguard, close friend and business associate of Mickey Cohen who was a bitter rival of the Los Angeles crime family then led by Sicilian crime boss Jack Dragna, vying for control of lucrative illegal activities. Los Angeles family capo Jimmy "the weasel" Fratianno had known Niccoli for thirteen years and they had done time together in an Ohio penitentiary in the 1930s. Los Angeles boss Jack Dragna had asked Fratianno, an ex-associate and friend of Cohen, to try to have Cohen's Italian gang members switch over to the L.A. family, among them Frank Niccoli. During his years in organized crime, Niccoli had been arrested for armed robbery, spent time in prison in Cleveland and on April 12, 1949, was arrested and indicted on charges of conspiracy in Los A

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  • Frank Niccoli
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  • In the 1940s, Niccoli was reportedly a bodyguard, close friend and business associate of Mickey Cohen who was a bitter rival of the Los Angeles crime family then led by Sicilian crime boss Jack Dragna, vying for control of lucrative illegal activities. Los Angeles family capo Jimmy "the weasel" Fratianno had known Niccoli for thirteen years and they had done time together in an Ohio penitentiary in the 1930s. Los Angeles boss Jack Dragna had asked Fratianno, an ex-associate and friend of Cohen, to try to have Cohen's Italian gang members switch over to the L.A. family, among them Frank Niccoli. During his years in organized crime, Niccoli had been arrested for armed robbery, spent time in prison in Cleveland and on April 12, 1949, was arrested and indicted on charges of conspiracy in Los A
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  • In the 1940s, Niccoli was reportedly a bodyguard, close friend and business associate of Mickey Cohen who was a bitter rival of the Los Angeles crime family then led by Sicilian crime boss Jack Dragna, vying for control of lucrative illegal activities. Los Angeles family capo Jimmy "the weasel" Fratianno had known Niccoli for thirteen years and they had done time together in an Ohio penitentiary in the 1930s. Los Angeles boss Jack Dragna had asked Fratianno, an ex-associate and friend of Cohen, to try to have Cohen's Italian gang members switch over to the L.A. family, among them Frank Niccoli. During his years in organized crime, Niccoli had been arrested for armed robbery, spent time in prison in Cleveland and on April 12, 1949, was arrested and indicted on charges of conspiracy in Los Angeles, for which Cohen posted $50,000 bail that was forfeited after Niccoli's disappearance. Niccoli was once described as a handyman for New York vice lord, Frank Costello, who was sent to California to oversee some of the mob's interests in Los Angeles. In September of 1949, Niccoli disappeared. According to Fratianno, Dragna told him, "Jimmy, you know Frankie Niccoli, tell him to leave. Give him one warning, and then we're gonna kill him". Fratianno tried to convince Niccoli to switch over to the Dragna family and betray Cohen by setting him up to be killed, but Niccoli refused.
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