Originally posted by Turnbull:
My choice would be Abner "Longie" Zwillman, boss of the NJ rackets, who was the biggest rum runner in the East during Prohibition; formed "The Big Six" with Costello, Luciano, Adonis, Siegel and Lansky; called and hosted the 1929 gangster convention in Atlantic City; was the lover of Jean Harlow, the "blond bombshell"; and was a legitimate businessman of note. Named by Senator Kefauver as "the biggest racketeer in America" in 1951, yet few if any ever heard of him--and nobody did his life story in film.