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TIL of Arnold Rothstein, the most powerful of the Jewish gangsters, AKA The Brain. He was strongly believed to have fixed the 1919 World Series, and was the first to import scotch during Prohibition. He is believed to be the one who transformed disorganized crime into a business.

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