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Nig Rosen: THE LAST MAHOFF
by Fred Lavner
In the annals of American organized crime, so little has been written about one of the biggest deals in the rackets for over 60 years. Nig Rosen’s prodigious career began as a teen gang member on the streets of Harlem in the early 1920s, and then he worked his way up to becoming a pimp, drug dealer, labor organizer, and in 1928 was chosen by his boyhood pal Meyer Lansky to participate in a botched hit on Arnold Rothstein. After that Rosen was dispatched to Philadelphia to take over the rackets headed by Boo Boo Hoff, and over the next 50 years Rosen became the trusted number two to Meyer Lansky and a major architect of organized crime in America. Fred Lavner vividly details the life and times of Nig Rosen, chronicling a long career as rackets boss of Philadelphia and Atlantic City, his role on the national crime commission, and exploits in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Miami, Havana and ultimately masterminding the French Connection drug cartel. If Meyer Lansky was considered to CEO of organized crime in America, Harry Stromberg, aka Nig Rosen,” deserves to be regarded as the Chief Operating Officer. He was that big!
$30
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN 9781008947870
Coming in the Fall
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