Manny Kimmel
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Emmanuel "Manny" Kimmel was a notable underworld figure between the 1930s and 1960s and the founder of the Kinney Parking Company, a chain of parking lots and garages which evolved into the media conglomerate Warner Communications and ultimately the present day Time Warner media empire.
According to Connie Bruck,[1] he cooperated with the major racketeer and bootlegger in Newark, Abner Zwillman, leasing his garages for storage of liquor during the Prohibition Era. FBI kept tabs on him for his business dealings with known mafia figures, and compelled to testify in the trials of two of them; Abner Zwillman and Joe Adonis.[1] [2]
An illegal bookie in his early years, running the numbers game and other illicit gambling bookmaking activities in New Jersey. Perhaps the biggest horseracing bookmaker in New York at one time, and owner of several racing horses himself. He is also known for his early forays into card counting in blackjack in the early fifties as "Mr. X" in the classic book on card counting, Beat the Dealer by Edward O. Thorp.[3]
In the Media[edit]
Kimmel is a major figure in Never Split Tens!, a novel based on the life of pioneering blackjack probability theorist Edward O. Thorp, by gambling writer Les Golden of Oak Park, Illinois, published in 2017 by Springer.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [1]Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck, pp.29-30
- ↑ "Bookie Boost". Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ Pogue, David. "Wanna Bet?", The New York Times, September 25, 2005. Accessed September 28, 2008.