Joseph Linsey

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Joseph Linsey (May 27, 1899-November 24, 1994) was an organized crime figure in Boston's underworld during Prohibition, associated with Joseph Kennedy and Meyer Lansky, and later became a prominent businessman and philanthropist, specifically his contributions to Brandeis University.

Biography

Born in Russia, he immigrated to the United States as a child and later grew up in Boston. After his father died, he went to work at the age of nine delivering groceries and later became appenticed as a meatcutter. At the start of Prohibition, the 21-year-old Linsey began bootlegging illegal liquor with Charles "King" Solomon from a front business, the National Realty Company. He also bought Canadian liquor from the Bronfman's and, although serving a year for violations of the Volstead Act, he was acquitted from his two later indictments on similar charges. He died in Florida of natural causes in 1994.

Further reading

*EIR. "Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy". Washington DC: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992. ISBN 0-943235-02-2
*Etzkowitz, Henry and Peter Schwab. "Is America Necessary?: Conservative, Liberal, & Socialist Perspectives of United States Political Institutions". St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1976. ISBN 0-8299-0090-X
*Fox, Stephen. "Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America". New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
*Fried, Albert. "The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America". New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-23109683-6
*Lacey, Robert. "Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life". London: Century, 1991. ISBN 0-7126-2426-0
*Stein, Benjamin J. "A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-74272-8
*Summers, Anthony. "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover". New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-399-13800-5