Every body talks about the big time gangsters ,but who do you guys think is the best unknown gagnster?

The best unknow gagnster has to be Auther Feginhighmer a.k.a Dutch schultz he was a ruthless ganster that people hardly herd of they should make a movie about him.

I guess the fact that they are unknown makes them the best gangsters. It's the well known one's that drop out of power. One of the most powerfull, and quietest would be Carlo Gambino. Even though his name is well known, he was so low key that he was able to avoid jail.

Dutch Shultz isn't that unknown. I've seen his biography on TV, he's a key player in the film Hoodlum (played by Tim Roth) and i've read about him on Crimelibrary.com. I thought he was quite well known as the 'Beer Baron of the Bronx'.

Sorry mate but good idea for a post and good purpose for the post. I love the ironic question. If they're unknown, how would we know about them. Just messing mate.

The biggest of the least-known gangsters was Abner (Longie) Zwillman, boss of Newark, NJ's rackets. Zwillman forged a partnership during Prohibition with Canada's Bronfman family (later Seagrams) to smuggle top Canadian whiskey from Nova Scotia to the Jersey Shore via tanker ships. He became the biggest rum-runner on the East Coast. He had a war with Richie (the Boot) Boiardo, Newark's Mafia chief, that left Da Boot with several wounds. They made up and became allies. In 1929, Zwillman called the famous gangster's convention in Atlantic City that resulted in the cartelization of all booze activities east of Chicago, and led to the formation of the Big Six gangster alliance (Zwillman, Lansky Siegel, Luciano, Costello, Adonis) that controlled Eastern rackets until the Commission was formed. Zwillman had a host of legitimate interests, too: he owned the Barium Steel Corp., was a major shareholder of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (later the Tubes, later PATH), was NJ's biggest distributor of cigarettes and cig vending machines, owned a GM truck dealership, had interests in Hollywood studios (and had Jean Harlow, the "blond bombshell," as his mistress for two years). He also had major political clout and helped steer delegates to FDR in 1932. Though most people remember Frank Costello as the "star" witness before the Keefauver Committee's televised hearings in 1950-51, Keefauver himself, at the end of the hearings, identified Zwillman as "America's top racketeer." Then, and only then, did he begin his period of public scrutiny.

how about Willie Moretti or Willie Moore of the New Jersey mob? can we consider him one of the unknowns? he was the one who helped Frank Sinatra get the role of Maggio in "From here to Eternity". (Johnny Fontane and Don Vito)

GoodFella

Hi,
There is also a movie with Dustin Hoffman called Billy Bathgate. Dustin Hoffman plays The Dutchman.

Very fine performance by Hoffman--one of his best.

just when you thought you knew it all, gotta love BB