Frank Lucas Walked Into Bumpy's Funeral With $100K CASH—What He Did Made Every Mobster Bow DOWN скачать в хорошем качестве

Frank Lucas Walked Into Bumpy's Funeral With $100K CASH—What He Did Made Every Mobster Bow DOWN

Frank Lucas walked into Bumpy Johnson's funeral with $100,000 cash. What he did with it made every mobster in Harlem bow down. On a rain-slicked Harlem street in July 1968, a man nobody respected did something nobody expected. Frank Lucas—dismissed for fifteen years as Bumpy Johnson's errand boy, his driver, the invisible man who carried bags and fetched dry cleaning—stood outside the funeral home where his mentor's body lay, surrounded by Italian mobsters in dark coats and fedoras. In his hand: a stack of hundred-dollar bills. In his eyes: the cold certainty of a man about to change everything. When Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson died of a heart attack, every crime family in New York descended on Harlem like vultures. The Italians assumed they'd finally absorb Bumpy's $50 million operation. The Black gangsters jockeyed for position. And Frank Lucas? Nobody even looked at him twice. That was their first mistake. Frank walked into that funeral with $100,000 cash—every penny he'd saved in fifteen years—and placed it on Bumpy's body in front of 2,000 witnesses. Then he turned to face every mobster in the room and declared himself king. The Italian bosses laughed. The Black gangsters scoffed. But within five years, Frank Lucas would be making more money than all of them combined—$1 million a day—by doing what no Black gangster had ever done: cutting the Italians out completely.