Jewish Mob

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Jewish-American organized crime emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been referred to variously in media and popular culture as the Jewish Mob, Jewish Mafia, Kosher Mafia, Kosher Nostra.

                      
In the early 1920s, stimulated by the economic opportunities of the roaring twenties, and later prohibition, Jewish organized crime figures such as Arnold Rothstein were controlling a wide range of criminal enterprises, including bootlegging, loansharking, gambling, and bookmaking. According to crime writer Leo Katcher, Rothstein "transformed organized crime from a thuggish activity by hoodlums into a big business, run like a corporation, with himself at the top.

 

Arnold "Mr. Big" Rothstein (1882 - 1928) in 1927, 1 year before he was killed.

 

The largely Jewish-American and Italian-American gang known as Murder, Inc. and Jewish mobsters such as Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, Harold "Hooky" Rothman, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel developed close ties with and gained significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia, eventually forming a loosely organized, mostly Jewish and Italian criminal syndicate known in the press as the "National Crime Syndicate."

 

 

Siegel's memorial plaque in the Bialystoker Synagogue.

 

Jewish-American organized crime operates in both Los Santos and Liberty City at the moment, being leaded by Elijah Levine. Narcotics trafficking, racketeering, gambling, loan sharking, murder, diamond trafficking, extortion, weapons trafficking, prostitution, smuggling, fraud and money laundering are it's principal criminal activities inside United States.

              

      

Picture of Elijah Levine (on the right) and the Italian-American, Russian and Israel Mafia bosses.

Edited October 24, 2018 by SmurfLoko

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