Irish Mobster James Ragen Continental Press Gambling Horse Racing Wire Service Chicago Outfit Willie Bioff Frank Nitti Hollywood Extortion Conspiracy

Irish Mobster James Ragen, owner of Continental Press Service?a horse racing wire service, supplying horse racing data to approximately 24 specialized distributorships that produced racing guides and scratch sheets used by gambling bookmakers, known as "bookies," so that mob-connected "bookies" could profit from the wagers of people betting on horse racing in the late 1930's, and early 1940's, was severely wounded by a shooter team of the Chicago Outfit crime family on June 24, 1946, in Chicago, and later fatally poisoned with mercury at Michael Reese Hospital in the Windy City by Outfit members, because he would not sell his lucrative Continental Press Service to this Italian American criminal organization known as "The Syndicate." The Chicago Outfit crime family created a rival horse racing wire service called Trans America Wire to provide horse race results to news services that, in turn, provided this information to gambling bookies taking money from betters. Trans America Wire was controlled by Chicago crime family gangsters such as the Chicago connected Los Angeles crime boss Jack Dragna, Chicago Outfit gangster Johnny Roselli, Southern California crime family member Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel, who was sent to California by New York mobster and Murder Inc. member Meyer Lansky. Read about how hoodlum extortionists George E. Browne and Willie Bioff worked for Chicago Outfit crime boss Frank Nitti after Nitti installed Browne and Bioff into the (IATSE) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union so that Browne and Bioff, also known as (B&B), could demand large monetary payments from Hollywood film studio executives Joseph Schenk and Nicholas Schenck. Even though Chicago Outfit crime boss Frank Nitti was the mobster that sent George E. Browne and Willie Bioff to California in 1935?and installed Browne and Bioff as corrupt union officials in the (IATSE) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union in 1934 to extort major Hollywood film studio executives after he learned of Browne and Bioff's soup kitchen extortion schemes of theater chain owners in Chicago, it was high level Chicago Outfit gangster Johnny Roselli that was the true puppet master controlling Browne and Bioff while they took monetary payments from major film studios in Hollywood such as Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor and 20th Century Fox in exchange for guarantees that there would be no strikes of (IATSE) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union workers. IATSE was also known as the Projectionists Union. George E. Browne, Willie Bioff, and Chicago Outfit connected Club 100 owner Nick Circella, were charged with extortion and racketeering after a private investigator hired by actor Robert Montgomery unveiled a $100,000 check that was written by 20th Century Fox Chairman Joe Schenck to Willie Bioff, who used this payment to buy his 80-acre Woodland Hills Ranch, in Los Angeles, California. Find out in this book how?once in prison for extortion and racketeering, gangster hoodlum enforcer corrupt union official and ex-pimp Willie Bioff became an informant against the Chicago Outfit after the girlfriend of Club 100 owner Nick Circella, Estelle Carey, was brutally murdered at her Gold Coast apartment?located at 512 West Addison St. in Chicago, Illinois. Willie Bioff?who believed that this act was conducted by the Chicago Outfit in an attempt to keep Nick Circella silent about the hierarchy of "The Syndicate" extortion racket against Hollywood, was incensed that a woman would be seen as acceptable to target in a mob hit operation. Bioff subsequently named all of the top Chicago mob figures involved in the Syndicate's extortion of Hollywood operation. Because of being named by Willie Bioff as one of the masterminds behind the Hollywood film industry extortion operation, Frank Nitti subsequently committed suicide.

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