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Myron Sugarman was a Jewish gangster who cornered the market in illegal slot machines in Manhattan and Newark, New Jersey. He’s also a former Nazi hunter.<\/p>\n

\"Myron
Myron Sugarman says Jewish gangsters had a psychological need to \u201cshow they were tough and were ready to prove it.\u201d (Image: Tech Talk Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a new Amazon Prime documentary, “The Last Man Standing: The Chronicles of Myron Sugerman,” the 85-year-old wise guy gives an account of his colorful existence as a member of the \u201cKosher-Nostra.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film by director Jonny Caplan also explores the Jewish Mob\u2019s fight against antisemitism. It documents its battles with American Nazis in the 1930s,\u00a0 as well as its role in aiding the post-War hunt for those who took part in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Newark Minutemen<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sugarman was, in his own words, the \u201cgodfather of the illegal slot machine business.\u201d And he was born into it. At the height of prohibition, his father, Barney \u201cSugie\u201d Sugerman, ran with legendary Jewish mobsters like Abner \u201cLongy\u201d Zwillman, Bugsy Seigel<\/a>, Joe \u201cDoc\u201d Stacher,\u00a0 and Meyer Lanksy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sugie had his hand in everything from \u201cbootlegging, boxing, fixing fights, thievery\u201d to \u201cjukeboxes, vending machines, pinball machines, slot machines,\u201d according to Sugarman.<\/p>\n

In the 1930s, Zwillman formed an association called \u201cthe Newark Minutemen,\u201d which was devoted to serving up beatings to Nazi sympathizers, in particular Fritz Kuhn\u2019s short-lived German American Bund Party. Kuhn had declared himself \u201cthe Hitler of the United States.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sugarman recounts how the Minutemen would throw stink bombs into the halls where Nazis met and would be waiting for them as they ran out with \u201cmonkey wrenches and baseball bats and brass knuckles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The young Sugarman was a smart kid, a college graduate who could speak six languages (\u201cseven, if you include profanity,\u201d he says). His father sent him to Europe to start an \u201cexport business,\u201d which he developed into the largest supplier of illegal slot machines in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI was the biggest contrabandist and bootlegger of Bally Bingo machines across the states,\u201d Sugarman says proudly in the film.<\/p>\n

Hunt for Mengele <\/strong><\/h2>\n

While in Europe in the 1960s, Sugarman knocked on the door of famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and asked how he could help. Wiesenthal replied that his operation needed money, and Sugarman began providing funding.<\/p>\n

The two men became firm friends, and Sugarman was involved in the hunt for Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, who was living in Paraguay at the time.<\/p>\n

There was always this question of Jewish pride,\u201d<\/strong> Sugarman says in the film. \u201cThe Jewish gangster really had a psychological need to show that the Jews could be just as tough as any other ethnicity, because they were going to break with the 2,000 years of our heads-down living in the ghetto, fearful. There was definitely no identity crisis. These Jews were tough and were ready to prove it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sugarman eventually served prison time in the 1980s for distributing knock-off Pacman machines. But he remains unapologetic for his criminal activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never did anything legitimate \u2014 I had principles,\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they see something is profitable, they take it away from the mobsters and take it away for themselves \u2026 The big fish eat the little fish, and that is the way of the world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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