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Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson (October 31, 1905 – July 7, 1968) was an American crime boss in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Early life.
In 1934, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson is released from Sing Sing and returns to Harlem, where mobster Dutch Schultz asserts his control of the lucrative numbers game.Schultz begrudgingly reports to Mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who pays bribes to special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey to protect his business.
Godfather of Harlem is an American crime drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2019, on Epix. [1] The series is written by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and stars Forest Whitaker as 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johnson.
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia.
Lucas was a petty criminal until he became associated with Harlem crime lord Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (1905-1968). [12] After Johnson's death, Lucas sought advancement by bypassing the Italian Mafia's control of the New York City heroin trade and obtained his heroin direct from Asia's Golden Triangle , often travelling to Bangkok, Thailand and ...
So Johnson’s tenure has been bumpy. And that’s why he’s on the hook come Friday afternoon during the vote for Speaker. Everyone on Capitol Hill is on tenterhooks when it comes to wrapping ...
Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025 — and it’s going to be a bumpy Day One … not to mention the four years that follow. Bernard Goldberg is an Emmy and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia ...
That mistake happened late in the first quarter when the Wildcats were struggling to move the ball. They only scored points on one of their first four drives of the game. But Johnson settled down ...