Manny Kimmel
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Manny Kimmel | |
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| Born | April 14, 1896 |
| Died | July 18, 1982 (aged 84) |
Emmanuel "Manny" (Alabam) Kimmel (April 14, 1896 – July 18, 1982)[1] was a notable underworld figure between the 1930s and 1960s and the founder of the Kinney Parking Company, a chain of parking lots and garages which evolved into the media conglomerate Warner Communications and ultimately the present day WarnerMedia media empire.
According to Connie Bruck,[2] he cooperated with the major racketeer and bootlegger in Newark, Abner Zwillman, leasing his garages for storage of liquor during the Prohibition Era. FBI kept tabs on him for his business dealings with known mafia figures, and compelled him to testify in the trials of two of them; Abner Zwillman and Joe Adonis.[2][3]
An illegal bookie in his early years, running the numbers game and other illicit gambling bookmaking activities in New Jersey. Perhaps the biggest horseracing bookmaker in New York at one time, and owner of several racing horses himself. He is also known for his early forays into card counting in blackjack in the early fifties as "Mr. X" in the classic book on card counting, Beat the Dealer by Edward O. Thorp.[4]
References
- ^ "Mannie Kimmel, big-stakes gamblers". Newspapers.com. The Miami Herald. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ a b [1]Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck, pp.29-30
- ^ "Keeping it in 'The Family:' Director's Mobbed-Up Dad". Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Pogue, David. "Wanna Bet?", The New York Times, September 25, 2005. Accessed September 28, 2008.