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  In the movie Mobsters, it talks about four young men from New York, Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Benny “Bugsy” Segal; they began their careers with petty crimes to eventually working their way to becoming top guys in the crime business. Jewish crime leader, Arnold Rothstein during the 1920's helped these men get their start into the underworld scene; very affluent and well connected to both politicians and crime bosses. What makes this a unique collection of characters is that two men were not of Italian descent; Segal and Lansky were of Jewish ancestry. These four men among others developed the National Crime Syndicate in the states; this became a partnership for gangsters of both Italian and Jewish descent to bootleg. This became a quite progressive idea for criminals and extinguished the concept of only Italian mafia associates. New York in the 1920's was a hotspot for criminal activity; around this time the five crime families of New York were making a profit in bootlegging and racketeering.