Dutch Schultz - Gangster

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• After the Volstead Act was passed in 1919, Dutch Schultz established himself as a bootlegge
• he owned several illegal breweries and speakeasies and was one of the most important criminal figures in the Bronx 
• involved in gang warfare
• mayor of New York, was determined to have Schultz removed from his city 
• , Thomas Dewey, to investigate Schultz's business interests
• Schultz heard the news, he began making plans to have Dewey assassinated
• worried other gang leaders as they knew that this would only increase La Guardia's determination to wipe out New York gangsterism. 
•  Louis Lepke Buchalter, one of New York's main gang leaders, paid Charlie Workman and Emmanuel Weiss to kill Schultz. On 23rd October, 1935,

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• Dutch Schultz, a.k.a. The Dutchman,
• In the early 1920s, during prohibition, Shultz drove alcohol trucks for the first modern gangster,Arnold Rothstein  (the man who it is said fixed the 1919 World Series), and became acquainted with up and coming gangsters such as Charles Lucky Luciano , Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who were just making their way up the criminal food chain. 
• 1920s, Shultz began his own bootlegging business and became a supplier of speakeasies throughout New York.
• The speakeasies were forced to buy alcohol from the ruthless and brutal Schultz. But, Schultz dealt with his competitors even more harshl
•  liquor turf battle with an unlucky man named John Rock who dared to stand up to Shultz. As a result, Rock was kidnapped and hung by his thumbs on a meat hook by Shultz and his companions who smeared his eyes with Gonorrhea infected gauze causing him to go blind.