Bumpy Johnson’s Family Had No Food — 20 Years Later He Was New York’s Richest Black Man скачать в хорошем качестве

Bumpy Johnson’s Family Had No Food — 20 Years Later He Was New York’s Richest Black Man

Walk down Lenox Avenue on any afternoon and you’ll see him: Bumpy Johnson, immaculately dressed in custom suits worth more than most Harlem families earn in six months, stepping out of a Cadillac that gleams like polished obsidian. Crowds part instinctively as he moves through them—everyone knows who he is and what he controls. This is the Bumpy Johnson Harlem sees in 1966: unimaginably wealthy, powerful enough that politicians seek his favor and criminals fear his disapproval, refined enough to debate literature and politics with college professors, and commanding enough that a single word from him can erase problems—or destroy a livelihood. He controls an estimated $50 million criminal empire, employs thousands directly and indirectly through his policy gambling operations, and lives in a luxury apartment that many white millionaires would envy. He wears diamond rings, silk ties, and Italian leather shoes that cost what his mother once earned in an entire year. This is the final transformation of a man who grew up knowing hunger, who made sure his family would never go without, and who—twenty years later—stands as one of the richest Black men in New York. 1966: Bumpy Johnson’s Family Didn’t Have to Eat — 20 Years Later, He Became One of the Richest Black Men in New York 1966: Bumpy Johnson — From a Starving Child to One of New York’s Richest Black Men