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This is a list of Jewish American mobsters and organized crime figures, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day.
She came to the attention of a wealthy bookmaker and gambler, Joseph Epstein, who is said to have become her financial advisor and, possibly, lover (although Epstein was reputed to be gay). Ultimately, she entered into the Chicago Outfit crime organization.
Nov 15, 2021 · The restaurant was a popular mob hangout, and it was there she met Joey Epstein, bookmaker for the Capone group, and launched her descent into the city's crime-ridden underbelly. Epstein took a shining to the young, beautiful, matter-of-fact Hill, and asked her to help launder money by placing bets at Chicago horseraces.
- Virginia Hill. Any list of women in organized crime, at least in America, has to include Virginia Hill. She reached the highest heights of any woman in America’s national syndicate, then or since.
- Stephanie St. Clair. Stephanie St. Clair, the notorious “queen” of the illegal numbers racket in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, sat in a witness chair to testify about payoffs she made to New York police to protect her employees from arrest.
- Griselda Blanco. Her infamy as a cold-hearted murderer and shrewd Miami-based narco smuggler, whose syndicate imported a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine, made for a cable channel biopic last year, Cocaine Godmother, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Sister Ping. Cheng Chiu Ping, or “Sister Ping,” more than earned the sinister sobriquet “the Snakehead,” the Chinese nickname for a human smuggler. Sister Ping (aka “Big Sister Ping”), as leader of an underground crime group in New York’s Chinatown, trafficked about 3,000 illegal immigrants from China to the United States.
May 2, 2019 · Joey Epstein wasn’t your typical mobster, a mild-mannered accountant in a world of flamboyant thugs. He tipped Virginia extravagantly, wisecracked with her, and began escorting her to mob...
Instead, she worked as a waitress in a mob-owned restaurant, where she captured the attention of Joe Epstein, who headed up Chicago's gambling concerns for the notorious Al Capone gang. Epstein saw in Hill attributes he could use in his operation, and thus he became her entrée into the mob.
Mar 15, 2016 · Joe Epstein, a bookie for Capone, is said to have called her The Flamingo because of her long legs. By some accounts he was crazy for her; by others, he was gay and never laid a finger on her, but became a lifelong friend.
