Starting With Gambling

The Kefauver committee's final report links several American criminal groups to the main Sicilian syndicate, the Mafia. However, Kefauver understands that the most powerful criminal in America is not an Italian, but a Jew named Longy Zwillman. Kefauver's committee is incredibly effective, as everyone observes. Because of them, Americans realized the full scope of organized crime and ramped up efforts against it. The community as a whole is turning against all sorts of gaming. The senate's special committee has earned widespread confidence by thwarting proposals to legalize illegal gambling in California, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Montana. Kefauver recommended enacting legislation to equalize the sharing of gaming results across states, which was immediately adopted by the United States Congress. Surprisingly, the prohibition was effective. The thieves' telegraph service went bankrupt as a result of legal pressure. Part of this success might be attributed to the fact that telegraph service became outdated when television transmitters were introduced. Payne's once-profitable notion has faded into obscurity fifty years later. The odd fate of that historic telegraph service is the subject of this book. In&T has developed an organization of experienced specialists with unique assets twelve miles southwest of West Orange, New Jersey, at the home Zwillman purchased with illicit gambling money. In 1956, a young scientist pondered AT&T's dual connection with gambling and built the most successful gambling system of all time.