Arnold Rothstein
Arnold Rothstein was the man who fixed the world series in 1919. He was a famous gambler and a kingpin of the Jewish mob. Some people say he never really did gamble though because he never put his money on anything that he would not for sure make money off of. When he was called to testify he denied all involvement in the scandal. After this to try and loose his ties with the Black Sox scandal he said he was done with gambling and sold all of his property near gambling. Even though he moved away from gambling he did not cut his ties with it. He began to drug deal, bootleg, and labor racketeering. He was later shot and killed on November 6th 1928 at the age of 46. He was never, during his lifetime, convicted of breaking any law.
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"Who is he anyhow, an actor?"
"No."
"A dentist?"
"...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World Series?" I repeated.
The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened, the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
"How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute.
"He just saw the opportunity."
"Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/inquotes.html)
"No."
"A dentist?"
"...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World Series?" I repeated.
The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened, the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
"How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute.
"He just saw the opportunity."
"Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/inquotes.html)