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Who was AR Arnold Rothstein?
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10/03/05 10:02 AM
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Was he in the Mob? He seemed pretty powerful. Even Luciano and Lansky used to work for him once.
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Re: Who was AR Arnold Rothstein?
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10/03/05 11:05 AM
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Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Who was AR Arnold Rothstein?
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10/03/05 11:23 AM
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Enzo Scifo
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Since he wasn't Sicilian, he could never be a member, certainly not in the 1920's. He was, like Lansky and Siegel, an associate, someone who worked together with the maffia. Needless to say he still had much influence and power, and was probably the topgangster from his time.
See, we can act as smart as we want, but at the end of the day, we still follow a guy who fucks himself with kebab skewers.
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Re: Who was AR Arnold Rothstein?
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10/03/05 11:46 AM
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Originally posted by Enzo Scifo: Needless to say he still had much influence and power, and was probably the topgangster from his time. Right, Enzo: he was the most powerful and influential gangster of his era. He had tremendous political clout, and could settle a strike with a single word. He ran a network of high-society gambling and opium dens, and imported high-end booze. But he also had a big network of up-and-coming gangsters whom he staked to money and territory, and who looked up to him as a mentor. Frank Costello, Charlie Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel were among his proteges. Luciano, in his autobiography, said he wished that Rothstein had lived longer--"he woulda made me into a gentleman, like him." Keep in mind that, during Prohibition, the Mafia was relatively small time and local. Most Mafia families were content to look after the rackets in their own neighborhoods, running them as they had the Sicilian villages where they came from. Jewish and Irish gangsters ran the booze and other major rackets in almost every big city. Italians were the biggest players only in Chicago--and Capone's "Outfit," as has been stated here many times, was not a Mafia family. Everything changed with the Castellemmarese War of 1930-31. After Charlie Luciano (with Lansky's help) got rid of the "Moustache Petes" and formed the Commission, the Mafia began to be a major power in interstate and international rackets.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Who was AR Arnold Rothstein?
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10/04/05 04:14 AM
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Speaking of manners, were these mobsters pretty rough even when they hung out at high class places and wore expensive suits all the time?
Ricky Roma: You are here to help us... does that seem clear to you? That's your job... To help us, not to fuck us up... to help those who are going out there to try to earn a living... You fairy! You company man!
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