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Fredericka "Mother" Mandelbaum: New York’s First Female Crime Boss (2019x126)

Air date: Sep 18, 2019

Long before Al Capone turned his eye to bootlegging and well before Bugsy Siegl decided to take his ill-gotten gains and cash in on the casino boom in Vegas, there was another boss in town. This one was perhaps the most unassuming of ladies, and within just a few years of setting foot on American soil for the first time, she had built up one of the largest organized crime empires the still-new nation had ever seen.