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The Newark Experience

Organized Crime in Newark

Crime Bosses of Newark: "Richie the Boot" Boiardo and Longie Zwillman: Michael Immerso and Warren Grover; moderated by Angelo Baglivo. Panel discussion sponsored by the Newark History Society and the New Jersey Historical Society. September 15, 2008.

In the Godfather Garden: The Long Life and Times of Richie "the Boot" Boiardo: Richard Linnett. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2013. Available?

Gangster #2: Longy Zwillman, the Man Who Invented Organized Crime: Mark A. Stuart. Secaucus, NJ, Lyle Stuart, 1985. Available?

FBI Records: Abner Zwillman: 7 volumes of digitized documents (newspaper articles, reports, memoranda) spanning the 1930s to the 1950s.

Nazis in Newark: Warren Grover. New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction Publishers, c2003.; The Minutemen, a group of boxers and bodyguards from Zwillman's Third Ward Gang, and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, led by physician S. William Kalb, led the opposition to Nazi activities and recruitment efforts in Newark between 1933 and 1941. Available?

Abner 'Longy' Zwillman-Kefauver Hearings: Short video clip of Zwillman during the Kefauver Crime Committee hearing.

Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Hearings before a Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, 2nd Session. 1950.; Zwillman testimony before the Kefauver Committee, pp. 588-628.

Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Part 18: New York and New Jersey: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. United States Senate. Eighty-Second Congress. First Session. July 6, 7, 11, 17, 19, 20; August 15, 16, 17. 1951.; Includes extended testimony from Meyer Ellenstein, the former mayor of Newark, mobster Joseph "Doc" Stacher, and others.