Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
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Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade and turning to a life of crime, Schultz started with pick-pocketing and petty theft, moved up to bootlegging and smuggling, and eventually left his mark in bloody gang w ....
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.... the co-founder of the all-Italian “La Cosa Nostra” governing board known as the “National Commission.”
During his short career, the Dutch man was responsible for 135 murders. During this time, the District Attorney Thomas Dewey became a threat, and Schultz decided to
kill him to get him out of the way. But before execution day arrived, Schultz was arrested for Income Tax evasion, a common tale of those days. Schultz could not foresee the outcome of the trial; so he had a steel box c ....
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