The Chicago Syndicate: Sidney Korshak
Showing posts with label Sidney Korshak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sidney Korshak. Show all posts
Friday, August 24, 2018

Remembering Sidney Korshak - Fabled Fixer for the Chicago Mob

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Sidney R. Korshak, a labor lawyer who used his reputation as the Chicago mob's man in Los Angeles to become one of Hollywood's most...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

How Did Chicago became a Cultural Capital of Crime?

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The thing outsiders know about Chicago is crime. The mobsters, the street drug gangs, the corrupt operators—these are the most sensationaliz...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Jerry Brown Alleged to have Mob Ties

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A book revives decades-old charges that California attorney general candidate and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown had close ties with individuals ...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Sidney Korshak was The Myth, Mr. Silk Stockings, The Duke and The Fixer

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Some mobsters get ridiculous nicknames. The Clown. No Nose. The Weasel. But others, like Chicago mob lawyer Sidney Roy Korshak, get ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Powerbrokers

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Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers Reviewed by Hillel Levin Reviewed by...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

How Al Capone's Successors Built a National Syndicate & Controlled America

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He was dubbed with one of the all-time greatest gangland nicknames, The Fixer. The tag fit Sidney Korshak like a calfskin glove. Born to i...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Sidney Korshak and The Mafia's Shadow Men

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In their quest to assemble fragments of the past into a coherent explanation for why things happened as they did, historians tend to take on...
Friday, June 19, 2015

The Dealmakers Behind the Chicago Mob

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For most Americans , real racket power in the last century hovered somewhere over the Hudson River, and no wonder. They saw New York-area ga...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Peter Bart's "Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob (and Sex)"

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He was a tall, silver-haired man, square-jawed with a military bearing, always impeccably attired in a dark blue suit. It was only a few wee...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

The Devil and Sidney Korshak Coming to HBO

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One of the most intriguing characters to ever come out of Chicago will be the focus of a major HBO miniseries, executive produced by legenda...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Will the Chicago Outfit Assign Hitmen to Compose 'Trunk Music' Against the Writers Guild?

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Daily Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart has come up with a novel idea to end the six-week-old writers’ strike – bring in the Chicago mafia ...