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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.
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.
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.
Stephanie St. Clair was born of African descent in the West Indies to a single mother, Félicienne, who worked hard to send her daughter to school. According to St. Clair's 1924 Declaration of Intention, she gave Fort-de-France , French West Indies (present-day Martinique , West Indies ) as her place of birth.
A New Mexico woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week after killing her daughter’s teenage boyfriend and then trying to pin the crime on her own son, according to authorities.
A 19-year-old mom and her baby died after a crash in Michigan on Tuesday, Oct. 5. Journee Padgett, 19, was driving eastbound on S. Custer Road in Raisinville Township around 8:30 a.m. local time ...
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.
Kathy Short, 56, and her daughter, Lauren Short, 30, were killed in the Circle C neighborhood in Southwest Austin the night of Dec. 5. Austin police believe Shane James Jr. is responsible for a ...