1. Carmen Joseph Milano was an American lawyer who eventually became a member of the American Mafia, serving as underboss of the Los Angeles crime family.
22 Facts About Carmen Milano
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Carmen Milano was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1929 to Anthony and Josephine Milano.
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Carmen Milano's family was of Calabrian origin and he had three brothers, John, Frank, and Peter.
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Carmen Milano's father was Mafioso Anthony Milano, who was underboss of the Cleveland crime family from 1930 until his retirement in 1976.
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Carmen Milano moved with his mother and siblings to Beverly Hills, California when he was a teenager after his mother developed cancer.
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Carmen Milano decided to attend Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and after graduating was accepted to Loyola Law School.
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On January 5,1955, Carmen Milano was admitted to the State Bar of California.
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Carmen Milano eventually was disbarred from practicing law in an incident involving fraudulent workers' compensation claims.
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In 1984, Carmen Milano decided to move back to California where his older brother was now running the Los Angeles crime family.
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Carmen Milano initially resided with Los Angeles crime family caporegime Luigi "Louie" Gelfuso, before owning and maintaining his own residence in the Tarzana district of Los Angeles.
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Carmen Milano had mob connections in Cleveland and in the East Coast, which included New York bosses Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo and Anthony Salerno.
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Carmen Milano tells me to call him Flipper, like the dolphin.
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Carmen Milano was more of an albatross than a dolphin.
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Carmen Milano had a reputation and wasn't afraid to mix it up.
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Carmen Milano was among 20 reputed organized crime figures arrested in 1984, in what law enforcement officials said was a bid to take over a $1 million-a-week bookmaking operation in Los Angeles.
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On March 29,1988, Carmen Milano pleaded guilty to conspiring to extort money out of loan shark victims who had unpaid debts.
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In 1998 Carmen Milano was one of several people named in a series of indictments that stemmed from a two-year investigation of organized crime in Southern Nevada.
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Carmen Milano admitted developing a fraudulent diamond scheme in the winter of 1996 with Herbert Blitzstein that was never carried out and laundering $50,000 from a food stamp fraud.
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Carmen Milano considered becoming a government witness, but changed his mind.
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Carmen Milano was probably one of the last guys you'd pick out of a lineup and identify as the underboss.
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Carmen Milano grew up in a society where the mob kids became mob guys, and he became a lawyer even though he was disbarred.
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Carmen Milano died January 3,2006, at Spring Valley Hospital of cardiac arrest and renal failure.