Broadway mob

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The gang around Joe Adonis was called the Broadway Mob during the US alcohol prohibition 1919-1932 ; Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello acted as managing directors for the daily necessary decisions .

Arnold Rothstein was the investor and advisor in the background ; contact with him had been made through Frank Costello. During the “Manhattan's bootleg wars”, which were about the predominance of the illegal alcohol business in Manhattan, the “Young Turks” of the Cosa Nostra and the Kosher Nostras of the later Bugs and Meyer Mob came together to protect their common business interests.

Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky had known each other from their youth and in the late 1920s the “Broadway Mob” supplied a number of speakeasies with high-quality whiskey ; including nightclubs like "Sherman Billingsley's", "Stork Club", "Silver Slipper", "Jack White's", "Jack and Charlie's 21 Club". Agreements with others were made in the Seven Group ; d. H. other parts of New York City and speakeasies were with the cheap booze from Waxey Gordon of Philadelphia supplied.

The cooperation of the “Young Turks” (am: Young Turks ) with non-Italians was not welcomed within the American La Cosa Nostra ; Lucky Luciano was formally subordinate to his boss Joe Masseria , who is considered to be the author of an assassination attempt on Lucky Luciano, in which he was kidnapped in 1929 and almost killed.

Today we see the motives for why Luciano Masseria betrayed Masseria in the war of Castellammare . Lucky Luciano rose to the boss of the group later classified as the Genovese family .

After the end of the alcohol prohibition in 1932, the gang's business foundation ceased, but the cooperation of the members from the "Broadway Mob" continued. It was always the resources of the Bugs and Meyer Mob that helped Luciano achieve his goals. The cooperation in the Seven Group and in particular in the Broadway Mob created the basis for the National Crime Syndicate . The armed forces were apparently absorbed by Murder, Inc. , which acted as the executive murder instrument of the National Crime Syndicate.

literature

  • Carl Sifakis:
The Mafia Encyclopedia . New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
The Encyclopedia of American Crime . New York: Facts on File Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8160-4040-0