Atlantic City delegates Atlantic City Conference



chicago:



alphonse scarface capone - south side/capone gang boss/chicago
frank enforcer nitti - south side/capone gang lieutenant/chicago
jake guzik - south side/capone gang lieutenant/chicago
frank frank cline rio - south side/capone bodyguard/chicago
frank mcerlane - saltis/mcerlane gang boss/chicago

philadelphia:



waxey gordon - jewish mob boss/philly
max hoff - jewish mob boss/philly
harry stromberg - jewish mob boss/philly
irving bitz - jewish mob boss/philly
charles schwartz - jewish mob boss/philly
samuel lazar jewish mob boss/philly

cleveland:



morris dalitz - little jewish navy boss/cleveland
louis rothkopf - little jewish navy boss/cleveland
leo berkowitz - little jewish navy/mayfield road mob associate/cleveland

detroit:



william joseph bernstein - purple gang boss/detroit (a.k.a. bill bugs )
abraham bernstein - purple gang boss/detroit

kansas city:



giovanni lazia - pendergast machine/balestrere gang lieutenant/kansas city (a.k.a. lazio)

new england:



charles solomon - jewish mob boss/boston
frank cheeseman cucchiara - north end gang/buccola family lieutenant/boston
frank bootsy morelli - morelli gang boss/providence

florida:



santo trafficante sr. - tampa family underboss/tampa

louisiana:



sylvestro corallo - matranga/giacona family lieutenant/new orleans

problems identifying attendees

some historians believe representation @ conference not representative of ethnic make-up of criminal element, being delegations consisted of italian , jewish crime leaders. because of lack of substantial irish delegation, conclusion made have been beginning of underworld domination italian , jewish crime groups.


the irish still possessed influential presence in america s criminal , political worlds , had number of dominant crime leaders in new york, boston , philadelphia. prominent , well-known irish bosses of time included frank wallace of boston, daniel danny walsh of providence, george bugs moran, south side o donnells (brothers edward (spike), steven, tommy , walter), west side o donnells (klondike , myles), william big bill dwyer, charles vannie higgins, jack legs diamond , vincent mad dog coll of new york. walsh 1 of leaders many crime historians unsure attended meeting. walsh 1 of prominent irish bootleggers of prohibition era, associate , partner of new york s irish combine leaders; dwyer , madden, , alleged member of big 7 group . alone should have guaranteed invitation, crime historians point fact 2 other irish bosses confirmed present @ meeting. walsh s membership in big 7 group , fact not killed until 1933, makes argument include him. had been present, have been 1 of 3 irish bosses in attendance.


some crime historians, such t. j. english, believe italian , jewish crime bosses did not invite prominent irish bootleggers , criminals of time atlantic city conference because intended marginalize them, along old guard or mustache petes controlled majority of criminal operations in big cities. other historians believe english correct: italians , jews wanted marginalize irish bosses, , did not invite them. historians of organized crime note motivations not out of ethnic, racial hatred , nor out of sheer greed. irish had begun type of criminal assimilation, leaving behind violent street rackets , moving onto more sophisticated types of organized illegality, such taking on , corrupting police force , local government of large cities. author t. j. english writes; in later years, when luciano or meyer lansky ask, “what irish? who’s taking care of irish?” didn’t mean irish mobsters. meant irish cops, politicians, , establishment figures ‘friendly.’ in eyes of many italian , jewish gangsters, fair , proper role irish in underworld; since had ‘gotten here first,’ speak, , had infiltrated upperworld, function. rest should left italians, jews, poles, , blacks. perhaps owing theory, frank wallace killed hitters in boston s italian mob in 1931 , danny walsh disappeared in 1933.


whether or not there concerted plan exclude them because of ethnicity, several prominent irish mob bosses left out of conference, first , foremost, because engaged in full-scale gang warfare rival italian , jewish bosses. bugs moran have been irish boss represent chicago, despite plan marginalize irish mobsters, had missed being killed in st. valentine s day massacre when gang sizably decimated , faded obscurity after. south side , west side o donnells of chicago weren t powerful moran , not have been chosen represent chicago anyway, @ war al capone , allies. new york s vannie higgins, legs diamond , vincent coll might have been invited involved in manhattan beer wars against jewish bosses dutch schultz, waxey gordon , welsh boss, owney madden. @ atlantic city conference, schultz heard saying @ ambassador hotel. crazy maniac coll causing me no end of grief , gordon added, yeah, , bastard, legs diamond? s hijacking trucks , raiding our clip joints on north jersey . vannie higgins killed on january 19, 1932 in new york, legs diamond shot 3 times , killed in albany, new york hideout on december 18, 1931 , mad dog coll killed inside new york phone booth schultz gunmen, while talking owney madden on february 8, 1932.


of note fate of irish mob boss bill dwyer. not killed, nor forced out of rackets other gangster, italian or otherwise. under own volition, retired organized crime towards end of prohibition in 1932-33 , settled life wife , 5 children in belle harbor, queens. died there in 1946 @ age of 63, after suffering heart attack.


one jewish criminal killed following conference jewish mob boss , boston s prominent crime leader , bootlegger, charles king solomon killed @ roxbury, boston speakeasy, known cotton club on january 24, 1933. law enforcement theorize either italian or irish underworld leaders in north end buccola family of boston, massachusetts or walsh mob of providence, rhode island had solomon assassinated, either way, solomon became victim of mob war dominance in new england s underworld in midst of area s prohibition wars. irish bosses wallace and, (mostly likely), walsh killed boston s north end italians, solomon killed them well, being italian dominance uncontested in new england underworld thereafter, other in south boston, heavily populated irish.










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