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This FBI anti-racketeering file concerns Los Angeles gambling figure Mickey Cohen, born Meyer Harris Cohen. The Bureau compiled biographical reports in 1958 drawing on police, court, prison, probation, hotel, motor-vehicle, and newspaper records, with background reaching from his 1933 criminal record through 1958. The records describe Cohen's aliases, family and divorce, residences, criminal cases, imprisonment at McNeil Island for income-tax evasion and false statements, and alleged connections to bookmaking, gambling, vending-machine disputes, black-market activity, and organized crime. They also document his 1958 assault case involving waiter Arthur M. Black, travel to La Paz, Mexico with attorney George Bieber, and material concerning John Stompanato and Lana Turner.

FBI file number: LA 92-106 | Documents span: 1933-1958 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Meyer Harris Cohen, Mickey Cohen, Lavonne Weaver Cohen, Max Shaman, Arthur M. Black, John Stompanato, Lana Turner, Walter Winchell, George Bieber, Ben Hecht, Liz Renay
Subjects: organized crime, racketeering, gambling, bookmaking, tax evasion, Los Angeles