Peter John Milano was a Los Angeles-based, American mobster, and former boss of the Los Angeles crime family.
12 Facts About Peter Milano
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Peter Milano was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio to Anthony and Josephine Peter Milano.
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Peter Milano's father was underboss of the Cleveland crime family from the 1930s until his retirement in 1976.
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Many members of the Peter Milano family were involved in organized crime, including his uncle Frank Peter Milano, who was boss of the Cleveland family and sat on the original Commission from 1931 until he chose to flee the country to avoid tax evasion charges in 1935.
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Peter Milano's brothers were involved in the Mafia except for Carmen Milano who chose to be a lawyer until eventually becoming a mobster in the 1980s.
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Peter Milano is related through marriage to John Nardi who was a Mafia associate who was killed for switching sides to the Irish Mob, during the Cleveland family's war with Danny Greene.
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Peter Milano moved with his family to Beverly Hills, California in the late 1930s or early 1940s as a teenager.
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Peter Milano took charge of a depleted family and was successful in having illegal bookmakers pay tribute to his family, which was already heavily involved in extortion.
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On October 28,1984, Peter Milano was one of twenty people arrested as part of the LAPD's "Operation Lightweight" and accused of trying to take over a $1 million-a-week book making operation.
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In March 1988, Peter Milano pleaded guilty again to racketeering charges and received a six-year prison sentence.
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Peter Milano never acknowledged being a part of the Mafia.
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Peter Milano was able to avoid any jail time from the Las Vegas indictments brought on by the murder of Herbert Blitzstein in 1997.