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In 1928 the gambler and loan shark Arnold Rothstein was shot dead, presumably for failing to pay his gambling debts. Rothstein had gained national attention in 1919 in connection with the bribing of eight members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team to throw the World Series. Pressured by New York mayor Jimmy Walker to bring the killers to justice, the police arrested two of the gambler's associates. In the absence of any evidence of their involvement in Rothstein's murder, however, the charges were dismissed. Nothing more came of the matter until the following year when Walker found himself running against Fiorello La Guardia, a Republican congressman, for the office of mayor. La Guardia claimed that the police knew who had killed Rothstein but had decided not to pursue the investigation for fear of the scandal that might result if news of the payments the gambler...
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