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New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition
The
Broadway Mob
was a New York bootlegging gang during
Prohibition
. Although headed by
Joe Adonis
, the gangs day-to-day operations were handled by
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
and
Frank Costello
as well as financially backed by
Arnold Rothstein
. During Manhattan's bootleg wars, Rothstein would bring in the
Bugs and Meyer Mob
, led by
Meyer Lansky
and
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
, to protect alcohol shipments.
As Luciano and Lansky had previously worked together prior to Prohibition, Meyer and Siegel were made partners in the
Judeo
-
Italian
criminal organization. By the late 1920s, the Broadway Mob supplied New York
speakeasies
with some of the highest quality
whiskey
including
Sherman Billingsley
's
Stork Club
, the
Silver Slipper
,
Jack White's
, Jack and Charlie's
21 Club
among others.
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Even its lesser quality alcohol imported from Philadelphia mobster
Waxey Gordon
was considered far superior to the
rotgut
liquor supplied by the rest of New York's underworld.
At the suggestion of Rothstein, the Broadway Mob bought interests in several popular speakeasies and nightclubs which would lead to purchasing valuable real estate in Manhattan. Its operations were eventually absorbed into the criminal syndicate under Luciano and Lansky, following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.
Further reading
[
edit
]
- Sifakis, Carl.
The Mafia Encyclopedia
. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005.
ISBN
0-8160-5694-3
- Sifakis, Carl.
The Encyclopedia of American Crime
. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2005.
ISBN
0-8160-4040-0
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