Criminal interests were attracted to boxing from its beginnings. People bet on boxing matches, and gamblers figured out early on that there was money to be made by controlling fighters and fixing fights. With Louis's popularity and the huge revenue boxing matches produced, organized criminals paid increased attention. During the 1940s boxing was ruled by a gangland boxing czar, a cohort of Jacobs in control of the boxing commissions and virtually every fight held on the East Coast. He was Frankie Carbo, a professional killer whose first arrest for murder was in 1924 when he was twenty. In 1939 Carbo was alleged to be the triggerman in the Hollywood killing of Harry Schacter (also know as Harry Greenberg), which led to his indictment for murder, along with Bugsy Siegel and Louis Lepke, and to the breakup of Murder, Incorporated. Carbo was released when the star defense.....
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