L.A. has its own sordid mob history. From its humble beginnings as Italian street gangs called Black Hands to Mickey Cohen’s “Sunset Wars” with Jack Dragna, L.A.’s  Mafia grew to have immense power during the Prohibition Era. The Sunset Strip became the mobster’s playground with its black tie supper clubs, like Cafe  Trocadero and Ciro’s, which had plenty of bootlegging, illegal gambling and many mob hits thanks to the rise of hometown mobster Cohen and transplant Ben “Bugsy” Siegel.