- The man who organized crime.
- His name was Abner Zwillman and he was a Jew. To the public he was known as "Longie" (because of his height: 6'2" and because he was the Jewish Defender, translated in Yiddish "Der Langer"), but to his friends and family he was simply "Abe." During Prohibition, Abner Zwillman became the largest bootlegger in the United States responsible for roughly 40 percent of the illegal booze entering the country. A multimillionaire following Prohibition, this living embodiment of Fitzgerald's famed 'Gatsby', Zwillman had his hand gripped tight around Hollywood bankrolling Columbia Pictures, dated Jean Harlow and ruled both legal and illegal businesses across the nation. He was the brains behind the crime syndicate known as the "Big Six" which included the likes of Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal, Frank Costello and Charles "Lucky" Luciano and was a ruling member of a Brooklyn gang of assassins the press dubbed: Murder Inc. Zwillman ran his criminal empire from Newark where he was the only domestic force to fight the Nazi movement beginning in the United States in the early 1930s. He would eventually be dubbed by the press as "The Al Capone of New Jersey," though that was an understatement since his career lasted longer than Capone's and his power was beyond Capone's and measure. Though he wished to live a life of legitimacy, his criminal ties were too strong to keep him out of constant surveillance by the government ultimately leading to an infamous demise that is still debated to this day. The name Zwillman has hardly been uttered in the past half century, but that's about to change thanks to a new documentary about the life and career of the man the government pegged as the man who organized crime and whose death remains a mystery to this day.—mpsmiele
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