Excellent, comprehensive article, NYM. Thanks! Important reminder of how these seemingly "small" rackets earned huge returns for gangsters. Also easy to disguise as legitimate businesses. Very good point about jukebox rackets helping careers of favored singers. In NYC, many jukeboxes were equipped with counters that recorded the number of plays each record got on that machine. Those figures were reported to agencies and publications that calculated which records were in the Top 40, and where they stood. That was still another way for mobsters to boost careers of favored artists.

Meyer Lansky had a jukebox company called Emby that he was very proud of. Longy Zwillman, the Newark rackets kingpin, also was NJ's biggest distributor of cigarettes and cigarette vending machines.

(BTW: Bobby Kennedy was chief counsel to the Senate Investigations Subcommittee in the late Fifties. He didn't become a US Senator until 1965.)