"Boardwalk Empire" Season 1 Banter

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Originally Posted by QUAZY50

Good who. I was confused, what was the deal with the big fat guy and the 19 Yr old blonde chick? what do they have to do with anything?

Sounds like "Big Jim" Colosimo...see my prior comment.

Colosimo was a major early Outfit boss in pre-Prohibition Chicago...about 1920-21 he dumped his longtime (Italian) wife for a young (non-Italian) singer at his restaurant, which outraged many in the Chicago underworld and opened up an opportunity for his longtime second-in-command, Johnny Torrio, to remove him and take his place.

To do the job, Torrio brought in a young man from Five Points, Brooklyn...named Alphonse Capone.