Mickey Spillane (mobster)

Spillane, the so-called “Gentleman Gangster",[1] was a marked contrast to the violent Westies mob members who succeeded him in Hell's Kitchen.[citation needed] After his release from prison, Spillane started as a numbers runner for various organized crime figures in Hell's Kitchen.It was Spillane's refusal to allow the Italian mobsters to participate in the rackets in Hell's Kitchen and along the west side of Manhattan that led to his downfall.The Italian gangsters greatly outnumbered the members of the Irish mob, but Spillane was successful in keeping control of the convention center.When he was released from prison, Coonan sought to align himself with the Gambino crime family through an up-and-coming mobster from Brooklyn, named Roy DeMeo.
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