The critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire began with the implementation of Prohibition in 1920. It chronicled political leader Nucky Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi) to keep the booze flowing throughout the Roaring Twenties. Forbiddance ended in 1933, yet how did these characters of Boardwalk Empire stop? There will be spoilers ahead.
- Lansky was by far the most successful of the miscreants on this list. In 1911, he and his parents moved from Russia to the land of opportunity. Lansky and his accomplice Bugsy Siegel climbed through the ranks of the New York mafia, starting with gambling and stealing automobiles. He began gambling in New Orleans, Florida, and Cuba in 1936 and subsequently financed Siegel’s development of the Flamingo in Las Vegas. Lansky relocated his Cuban activities to the Bahamas when Castro took control in 1959. He ruled over a $300 million conglomerate of illicit and legitimate companies. He went to Israel in 1970 to evade a grand jury and tax evasion accusations but was deported.
- Johnson, who played Nucky Thompson on Boardwalk Empire, was a very different physique than the thin actor who played him, Steve Buscemi. Johnson was almost a stereotypical crooked, cheerful politician, being well over 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds and frequently strolling the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, the city he governed. Johnson had followed in his father’s footsteps, Sheriff Smith Johnson, who was involved in the family business of politics. He was not elected; he was appointed county treasurer, but after becoming boss of Atlantic City in 1913, he utilized government machinery to put crime under his control. Under his reign, Prohibition was not enforced.
- Luciano has been involved in crime since he was a child. At the age of ten, he was already engaged in mugging, theft, and extortion. Because of his skill at both gambling and evading incarceration, he earned the nickname “Lucky.” He accompanied Joe Masseria’s gang in 1920 also rose within the ranks to become his second-in-command in 1925. However, tired of the pointless Castellammare War, he assassinated both leaders, Masseria and Maranzano, in 1931, becoming New York’s top mobster. Prosecutor Thomas Dewey picked out Luciano as a target, and Luciano was sentenced to 30-to-50 years in jail in 1936 for running a prostitution ring.
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