CC205 Study Guide - Final Guide: Vito Genovese, Dutch Schultz, Numbers Game
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The murder of dutch schultz cleared the way for deweys vigorous team of prosecutors and investigators to home in on another inviting quarry: charles lucky luciano. Charlie lucky was less discreet about his alliances with tammy hall leaders and socialized openly with them at major political gatherings. Luciano and his political farsighted adjustant, frank costello, accompanied the tammy delegation. Deweys examiners discovered that luciano"s luxurious lifestyle could never be financed solely through bookmaking and gambling. His main mandate was the eradication of the numbers racket in the city. The path to luciano began when deweys only woman staff member, eunice carter, badgered him into examining corruption inside the cities womans court. Through wiretaps of brothels, investigators uncovered clues that an organization referred to in the wiretapped conversations as the combine or the combination was in control of about three hundred whorehouses.
