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23 set 2014 · Waxey Gordon made appearances in the last few seasons, but by the time this season ends, the career as a bootlegger that made him one of the most famous Jewish gangsters will presumably … Menu Icon.
Waxey Gordon. 400 likes. Los Angeles-born DJ living in Mexico City. Co-founder of the MDMX party series. https://soundcloud.com/waxeygordon
The Rise of Waxey Gordon. By Allan May. Born in 1886 “to a large, wretchedly poor Polish-Jewish immigrant family,” on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Irving Wexler got his nickname “Waxey” after he began his criminal career as a pickpocket. Friends said he was able to remove a victim’s wallet from their pocket “as though it were ...
Waxey Gordon (born Irving Wexler; January 19, 1888 – June 24, 1952) was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling. An associate of Arnold Rothstein during prohibition, he was caught up in a power struggle following Rothstein's death. Fellow Rothstein associates Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky provided authorities with evidence that led to his ...
30 mag 2024 · SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 -- Irving Wexler, alias Waxey Gordon, the New York gangster and racketeer, died t 5 P. M. today in the hospital in the Alcatraz Island Federal Prison here.
Waxey Gordon. Organized Crime Figure. Born Irving Wexler in New York City, New York's Lower East Side, he became one of the most powerful Prohibition-era alcohol smugglers on the Eastern coast of the United States. His power ended when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. In 1951, Gordon was sentenced to twenty-five years in Alcatraz...
Waxey Gordon is The Untouchables hoodlum of the week in this episode and Nehemiah Persoff plays him. Although Eliot Ness and his crew once again had nothing to do with the eventual imprisonment of this public enemy, in fact it was the federal government that did him in. As is shown in the story the real Waxey Gordon was a very flashy individual.
