His uncle, Frank Milano was boss of the Cleveland family and sat on the original Commission from 1930 until 1935, when he fled the country to avoid charges for tax evasion.

When the brothers graduated high school, Peter decided to stay in Los Angeles and work with Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen.

Mafia associate and burglar Phil Christopher described parties Milano would host at the Italian American Brotherhood Club in Little Italy, Cleveland in the late 1970s.

[4] In 1984, Milano decided to move back to California where his older brother was now running the Los Angeles crime family.

[11] L.A. mobster turned government witness Anthony Fiato once described Milano after their first encounter: I thought he was a fucking hobo.

[10]Milano was among 20 reputed organized crime figures arrested in 1984, in what law enforcement officials said was a bid to take over a $1 million-a-week bookmaking operation in Los Angeles.

On March 29, 1988, Milano pleaded guilty to conspiring to extort money out of loan shark victims who had unpaid debts.

In 1998 Milano was one of several people named in a series of indictments that stemmed from a two-year investigation of organized crime in Southern Nevada.

Milano admitted developing a fraudulent diamond scheme in the winter of 1996 with Herbert Blitzstein that was never carried out and laundering $50,000 from a food stamp fraud.

[14] Despite this Peter Milano sought no reprisals for his brother's betrayal, who continued to remain underboss when released from prison.

During the investigation, former FBI agent Bob Hammer was quoted as saying: If you were making a movie, you would almost cast George Costanza as the underboss.