Charles Solomon
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Charles "King" Solomon (d. January 24, 1933) was a Boston racketeer who controlled New England's bootlegging, narcotics and illegal gambling during Prohibition.
One of the earliest crime figures in New England's history, Solomon controlled the majority of illegal gambling before expanding into bootlegging during Prohibition owning many of the cities most prominant speakeasies including the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Attending the Atlantic City Conference in 1927, Solomon was one of the several leaders in the "Big Seven" who helped negotiate territorial disputes and establish policies which would influence the later National Crime Syndicate in 1932. Solomon continued to control illegal gambling in New England until his death on January 24, 1933 when he was killed in Boston's Cotton Club by rival gunmen [1]. His territories were eventually divided up among his lieutenants Hyman Abrams, Louis Fox and Joseph Linsey.
[edit] Further reading
- Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-23109683-6
- Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973. ISBN 0-7091-3966-7
- Pietrusza, David. Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7867-1250-3
- Reppetto, Thomas A. American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-8050-7798-7
[edit] References
- English, T.J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5
- Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
