Charles Solomon (mobster)

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Charles “King” Solomon (* 1884 in the Russian Empire ; † January 24, 1933 in Boston ) was an American mobster who is now part of the Kosher Nostra . He was involved in alcohol smuggling during Prohibition in the United States , but narcotics and gambling were also illegal activities of his gang.

Life

Solomon can be considered one of the early figures of organized crime in New England history. He and his parents had moved to the West End of Boston; his father ran a theater and he and his brothers could be assigned to the middle class . During his youth, Solomon worked in his uncle's restaurant .

Somehow he came into contact with prostitution , bail fraud, and stolen goods, and gained control of the city's illegal gambling and narcotics trafficking in the early 1920s.

With Dan Carroll, with the onset of Prohibition in the United States , alcohol smuggling had also entered and maintained a large number of the most popular speakeasies in Boston. Solomon was well connected and had connections to Canada , New York City, and Chicago .

His political contacts prevented charges of alcohol smuggling; however, there were some investigations against him in 1922 because of his drug activities, which ultimately led to a five-year prison sentence, of which he served 13 months in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary .

In 1927 Solomon took part in the "Atlantic City Conference" because he was one of the heads of the so-called Seven Group .

1933 Solomon of competing gangsters John Burke and James Coyne was on the men's toilet of the Cotton Club shot. His business was taken over by other members of his gang, such as Joseph Linsey, Hyman Abrams, and the Max & Louis Fox brothers.

literature

  • Albert Fried: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
  • TJ English: Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5
  • Jonathan Goodman: The Passing of Starr Faithfull . Kent State University Press, [Kent, Ohio] 1996, ISBN 0-87338-541-1 .
  • Stephen Fox: Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
  • Hank Messick: Lansky . Robert Hale & Company, London 1973, ISBN 0-7091-3966-7 .
  • David Pietrusza: Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series . New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7867-1250-3
  • Carl Sifakis: The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
  • Thomas A. Reppetto: American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power . New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-8050-7798-7

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personal data
SURNAME Solomon, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solomon, King (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1933
Place of death Boston