Arnold Rothstein Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), better known by his alias “the Brain,” was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman, and gambler who rose to prominence as a kingpin of the Jewish mafia in New York City during the early twentieth century. Rothstein was generally regarded as the mastermind of organised corruption in professional sports, having conspired in the rigging of the 1919 World Series, among other things. “He turned organised crime from a thuggish activity carried out by hoodlums into a huge enterprise, managed like a company, with himself at the helm,” according to crime writer Leo Katcher. According to Rich Cohen, Rothstein was the person who first realised that Prohibition was a business opportunity, a means to enormous wealth, and who “understood the truths of early century capitalism (giving people what they want) and came to dominate them.” Rothstein was born in New York City in 1882 and died in New York City in 1939. His celebrity sparked the creation of many fictitious characters based on his life, who were depicted in short tales, novels, musicals, and films, both contemporaneous and afterwards. Rothstein was killed in 1928 because he failed to pay a huge debt incurred as a consequence of a rigged poker game. His unlawful enterprise was dismantled and dispersed among a number of other underworld groups, which contributed to the collapse of Tammany Hall and the emergence of reformer Fiorello La Guardia in the years that followed. Rothstein’s estate was declared bankrupt ten years after his death by his brother, who had inherited the inheritance.

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