The Cohen crime family, or the Siegel crime syndicate, was an Italian-American Mafia / Jewish Mafia crime family created by New York Jewish American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in the early 1930s. Siegel ran Los Angeles and later Las Vegas' illegal gambling and prostitution rings with his lieutenants Mickey Cohen, David Berman, Harold "Hooky" Rothman, Moe Sedway and boss of the L.A. family Jack Dragna. Although founded and ran by a Jewish mobster, the family was considered to be a part of the Italian-American Mafia, due to Siegel and Cohen's associations with the Italian New York and Chicago families, employing mostly Italian American members, adopting the Italian mobster machismo and operating under the Italian Mafia's structure, rules and customs. However, the family generally did no