Harry Rosen (Mobster)

Harry "Nig" Rosen (born Harry Stromberg ) was an American mobster in Philadelphia whose influence stretched from the east coast of the United States to Atlantic City , Baltimore and Washington, DC . Today it is included in the Kosher Nostra .

Life

Harry Rosen became a well-known criminal in southeast Philadelphia as he was the head of the 69th Street gang . The gang was active in the 'business fields ' of prostitution , extortion and "labor racketeering" . In the mid-1920s she got into the drug trade with Arnold Rothstein .

Rosen replaced Max “Boo Hoo” Hoff as the leading “bootleger” during the alcohol prohibition and became a member of the “ Seven Group ” (also known as the Big Seven ), which were allied with Waxey Gordon and Irving Blitz , which smuggled alcohol all over the east coast ruled.

During the 1930s he worked with Meyer Lansky on the expansion of the drug trade in and via Mexico , as the old smuggling routes via Japan collapsed before the actual Second World War because of the conflict between the USA and Japan . He was supported by Harry Tietlebaum (* 1889), another Lansky man from the Bugs and Meyer Mob . In 1939 Mexico City was connected to major cities in the USA, such as New York City , Philadelphia , Miami , Los Angeles, etc. and also to Havana in Cuba .

Rosen and his deputy, driver and bodyguard William "Willie" Weisberg were also considered to be leading mobsters in illegal gambling , according to police superintendent George F. Richardson before the Kefauver Committee in 1951 .

During the 1950s, Rosen partnered with Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese and both shipped apparel made in the Garment District of New York City.

literature

• Denton, Sally and Morris, Roger: The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America ., 1947-2000. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0-375-40130-X
• Lacey, Robert: Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life . London: Century, 1991. ISBN 0-7126-2426-0
• Messick, Hank: Lansky . London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973. ISBN 0-7091-3966-7
• Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-08410-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yasha, "The Wandering Jew" ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.crimemagazine.com (English)  
2. ↑ Waxey Gordon ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on crimemagazine.com (English) 
3. ↑ The American Mafia: Kefauver Committee Interim Report ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)