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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.
Johnson was under a federal indictment for drug conspiracy when he died of a heart attack on July 7, 1968, at the age of 62. He was at Wells Restaurant in Harlem shortly before 2 a.m., and the waitress had just served him coffee, a chicken leg, and hominy grits, when he fell over clutching his chest. [1]
Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901 – October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime -related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket .
Mayme Cox, née Harding (fl. 1890s–1910s), first wife of politician James M. Cox; Mayme Gehrue (c. 1880–c. 1929), American actress and dancer; Mayme Gerhard (1876–1955), photographer; Mayme Hatcher Johnson (died 2009), wife of gangster Bumpy Johnson; Mayme Kelso (1867–1946), American actress of the silent era
Bronx-based mob boss Dutch Schultz was the first to move in, beating and killing numbers operators who would not pay him protection. St. Clair and her chief enforcer Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson refused to pay protection to Schultz despite the violence and intimidation by police they faced. St.
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.
Hadera was born on December 1, 1985, in Harlem, New York. [1] She identifies as half Ethiopian and half white. [2] Her father is a Tigrayan refugee and founder of the African Services Committee, a Harlem-based organization that works with African refugees. [3]
The Good Wife follows the political, professional, and personal life of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), a political "good wife" who is thrust back into the workplace after over a decade after her husband, Peter Florrick , a local Chicago politician, is arrested on corruption charges following a highly publicized sex scandal.