Joseph Sica, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mobster
Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1911
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 21-Nov-1982
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Joseph Sica
- Joseph "JS" Sica (August 20, 1911 – November 21, 1982) was a New Jersey mobster involved in armed robbery, murder for hire, extortion, and narcotics distribution.
- Sica mentored many West Coast mobsters, including Mike Rizzitello and Anthony "the Animal" Fiato.
- Chistopher "Chris" Petti was Sica's longtime partner in the Los Angeles and San Diego rackets.
- Sica's brothers Alfred, Angelo, and Frank were also associates of Sica's. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Sica was first arrested in 1926 at age 15.
- In 1950, Sica was indicted with 15 other mobsters for conspiracy to distribute narcotics in California.
- However, the case was dismissed after Abraham Davidian, the prosecution's star witness, was shot to death while sleeping at his mother's home in Fresno, California.
- During the 1950s, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S.
- Senate Committee on Government Operations identified Sica as a prominent member of the Los Angeles crime family and an associate of mobsters Mickey Cohen, Salvatore Iannone, and Thomas DeMaio. Sica once refused an order by L.A.
- Boss Jack Dragna to kill friend Mickey Cohen.
- Defying Dragna made Sica a well-respected man amongst Cohen and his bookmakers, but it alienated the L.A.
- family against him.
- Cohen's bookies sided with Sica and in an attempt to avoid another gambling war, Sica gave up a piece of his lucrative bookmaking business to Dragna.
- Sica worked in Los Angeles so long that he eventually became a close associate of the L.A.
- family. Joseph Sica died on November 21, 1982.
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