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7 wrz 1996 · Ben R. Stein, who built a small janitorial business into one of Chicago’s most lucrative maintenance firms and was a familiar figure in the nightclub set of partygoers and gamblers, is dead...
21 paź 2021 · October 21, 2021 — Chicago Jewish mob associate Ben (King of the Custodians) Stein died 25 years ago this fall. But his behemoth janitorial business, United Maintenance Services, remains in the headlines all these years later. Earlier this month, Stein’s protege and successor as owner of United Maintenance, Rick Simon, filed a lawsuit ...
9 gru 2019 · Professor Joseph Kraus, from the University of Scranton Pennsylvania, talks about the Chicago Jewish mafia and his book “The Kosher Capones” at Manny’s Deli on Nov. 27, 2019, in Chicago. “The...
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters thro...
18 cze 2015 · At the time she vanished in 1980, Karen Koppel was causing headaches for Ben Stein – a mob associate and felon whose Chicago janitorial company had grown fat through local government contracts. Stein, who was in his 60s and married to someone else, wanted to break off what apparently was a romantic relationship with the much younger Koppel.
15 paź 2019 · This book tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. The book traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish ...
15 paź 2019 · The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers,...
