In 1984, when Los Angeles Mob boss Peter Milano was arrested along with 19 others, LAPD Chief Daryl Gates announced the organization “had become a ‘Mickey Mouse Mafia.’” This new reputation had formed a few years earlier for the L.A. Mob, which had been in decline since the death of former boss Jack Dragna in 1956. In February 1980, the Chicago Tribune revealed that agents overheard “more than one restaurant conversation in which the [Mickey Mouse] term was laughingly used.” With Chicago boss Tony Accardo nesting in Palm Springs, the agents were all ears. More details followed that November in another article, ...