What happened to the real Boardwalk Empire gang after the finale?
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SPOILER ALERT: If you havent seen theBoardwalk Empireseries finale yet, come back later.
Again, Im not kidding about the spoiler alert thingy.
Boardwalk Empirerose and fell.
The gangster lived on.
I dont know whether Enoch Nucky Thompson actually died at the end ofBoardwalk Empire.
Hes bleeding, a lot, but people jumped in right away and people have survived worse.
Lets assume he lived, since his real-life counterpart Enoch Nucky Johnson, lived until 1968.
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see also:our guide to all the real-life gangsters fromBoardwalk Empire.
Enoch Johnson
Nucky Johnson ran Atlantic City.
He went from assistant sheriff to the citys treasurer.
He was part of the Big Seven booze distribution group.
He hosted the mobs Atlantic City Conference in 1929.
Nucky was shacking up with one of Hearsts favorite showgirls.
The articles alerted the feds to Atlantic Citys crime element and they went after Johnson.
Boardwalk Empires finale takes place in 1931, a big year in crime.
The legalization of booze will force Nucky Johnson to expand his operations.
Why didnt Johnson report it?
Because he made the money running numbers operators during 1935, 1936 and 1937.
Johnson was convicted in July 1941, fined $20,000 and sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
Like Steve Buscemis character, Nucky was married to a woman named Mabel Jeffries, who died of consumption.
Nucky married the former Philadelphia showgirl Florence Flossie Osbeck on August 1, 1941, after a three-year engagement.
Johnson was 58, Flossie was 33.
Ten days later, Johnson checked into Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1941.
He did not bring his German valet, Louis Kessel, with him.
Frank S. Farley took over Atlantic City.
I guess he didnt want to consort with the criminal element.
Nucky was a sales exec for the Richfield Oil Company.
He and his wife also worked for the Renault Winery.
Johnson died on December 9, 1968 at the Atlantic County Convalescent Home in Northfield, New Jersey.
Al Capone
J. Edgar Hoover really didnt like Al Capone.
Capone was too smart to get busted for anything illegal, but couldnt cover up the paper trail.
That was until Frank J. Wilson checked Capones tax returns and popped him for tax evasion in 1931.
Ness guys were so against bribery they were called The Untouchables.
Thats not to say they were clean, they routed the constitution regularly go get collars.
Capone was convicted of tax evasion on October 17.
He was sentenced to 11 years, the longest sentence for tax evasion ever given at that time.
The Feds even took his bullet-proof limousine, which President FDR used after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Capone entered Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in May 1932.
He had to detox from his drug habit.
Capone was transferred to Alcatraz on August 11, 1934.
Capone got special privileges in Atlanta, but on Alcatraz he couldnt even get a haircut.
Capone spent the last years in the prison hospital being treated for syphilis.
Capone ended his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in California.
He was paroled on November 16, 1939.
Capone spent his last years on Miami Beach.
Syphilis rendered him a veritable simpleton given to paranoid rants.
On January 21, 1947, Capone had a stroke.
The next day he had a heart attack.
Three days later, on January 25, 1947, he died in his home.
Al Capone is buried t Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Even his aliases were aliases, or is that aliei?
Charlie will do fine for a couple of years.
Hes going to bring all the Italian families together nationwide.
There are also books about the mob killing Kennedy.
They were that big.
Lucky Luciano will go to jail for pimping.
Eunice Carter, who was an assistant D.A.
Dewey then leaned on some illegal immigrants and ultimately Luciano went up the river on trumped up charges.
Law enforcement at the time was going through growing pains.
It was outgrowing the law.
The cops were always playing catch up.
When John Dillinger bought fast cars, the feds had to buy fast cars.
When surveillance equipment was invented, the feds had to use it before the lawyers found out about it.
Some things dont change.
Luciano will make a deal to get out of jail, but not for free.
After a battleship is set aflame, the government will basically pay protection money.
There are rumors that the mob did the job on the battleship.
That was, after all, their modus operandi.
When Luciano gets out of prison hell be deported.
That wont stop him from running the American mob.
Hed do that from Cuba or from Naples.
Luciano would also be very instrumental in bringing heroin to America from Turkey.
The whole myth perpetuated by The Godfather about the mob steering clear of the white powder was a myth.
They all took their cut.
Hundreds of people went to Lucianos funeral in Naples.
He was buried in the Lucania family vault at St. Johns Cemetery in Queens, New York.
He met Charlie Luciano when he was a teenager.
Lucky admired this and brought him into the gang.
The two would be friends and partners for the rest of Luckys life.
Lansky came up through Arnold Rothsteins tutelage and we went on to become the king of illegal casinos.
Lansky set up gaming tables in Miami and Cuba.
Lansky gave the go-ahead for Benny Siegel to turn Las Vegas in a gambling mecca.
Thinking hed get a deal, Lepke, who started Murder Inc., turned himself in.
Lepke was the only mob boss ever to be fried in the electric chair.
Lansky got an ulcer fighting for control over Havanas Riveriera Hotel against the new peoples rule of Fidel Castro.
Lansky got past the Kefauver Committee on Crime in Oct. 11, 1950, but the feds hounded him.
By the early seventies the FBI drove Lansky to seek refuge in Israel.
Nixon threatened to stop delivery on Phantom jets unless Prime Minister Golda Meir deported Lansky.
The Israeli Supreme Court gave him a travel brochure to Buenos Aires.
Lansky didnt get convicted on the tax evasion charges.
Benny Siegel
Benjamin Siegel invented Las Vegas.
He was also one of the guys who started Murder, Incorporated.
Siegel married Whitey Krakowers sister Esta on January 28, 1929.
Whitey was in Murder, Incorporated.
Ben and Esta got divorced in 1946.
Siegel died in 1947.
He made friends with celebrities and would have married Virginia Hill if got his divorce earlier.
Siegel smoked dope and dealt it.
Siegel ratted Waxey Gordon out to the feds because he wasnt paying his taxes.
Waxey hired the Fabrizzo brothers from his jail cell to hit Siegel and Bugsy instead hunted them all down.
Siegel tried to sell weapons to Mussolini in 1938.
Two witnesses were killed before the Greenberg case went to trial and Siegel was acquitted.
Siegel went west and made Mickey Cohen his number two.
Together they got into LA crime family boss Jack Dragnas gambling operations.
Siegel took over the Screen Extras Guild and the Teamsters in LA and put the thumb on Hollywood.
Siegel hung out with all the big names: Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant.
Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner.
Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra.
Siegel and his former extortion partner Moe Sedway took over the Flamingo Hotel from William R. Wilkerson.
They also got a cut from the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Lansky turned the whole desert over to Siegel.
At first Siegel didnt want it.
He was having too much fun in Hollywood.
Lansky convinced Siegel to bring his movie friends and redesign the Flamingo for the syndicate.
The Flamingo opened the day after Christmas in 1946.
George Raft showed up, no one else did.
The only person who could tell Luciano to fuck himself was Lansky.
He was shot in the head and his eye popped out of its socket.
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