Although I grew up in a predominately Italian-American neighborhood in Chicago I didn't have much of an experience as you guys have except through hearsay from my friends.
Although from what I learned through my great-grandmother, her husband was a bootlegger and apparently ran afoul of someone down in Georgia that he hightailed it out of there without telling anyone until he made it to New Jersey. My great-great-grandfather (again my great-grandmother's father) was a numbers runner in NYC. I don't know if he ran with Bumpy and them because I didn't ask her though.