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Nov 6, 2018 · Arnold Rothstein, shot to death 90 years ago, was an iconic figure in the New York underworld. Courtesy of Getty Images. Ninety years ago this week, with the dying breath of New York’s most provocative Mob entrepreneur, one of America’s great unsolved gangland mysteries was born.
Rothstein refused to pay a large debt resulting from a fixed poker game and was murdered in 1928. His illegal empire was broken up and distributed among a number of other underworld organizations and led in part to the downfall of Tammany Hall and the rise of reformer Fiorello La Guardia.
Jul 14, 2022 · On November 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein — gambler extraordinaire, money man for the mob, and political fixer, according to Britannica — stumbled out of the service entrance of a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
- Andrew Amelinckx
Jul 6, 2015 · Arnold Rothstein was a Jewish-American mob boss who inspired a character in 'The Great Gatsby' and was portrayed in the series 'Boardwalk Empire.'
Mar 1, 2022 · Jewish mafioso Arnold Rothstein rigged a World Series and invented the drug game. But his crimes came back to bite him - his own gory murder.
- Carly Silver
Sep 13, 2011 · History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more -- and less -- than a fixer of baseball games.
Oct 31, 2003 · As we learn in David Pietrusza’s splendid new biography, “Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series,” Arnold Rothstein was a brilliant...