Fredericka "Mother" Mandelbaum: New York’s First Female Crime Boss

Long before Al Capone turned his eye to bootlegging and well before Bugsy Siegl decided to take his ill-gotten gains and cash in on the casino boom in Vegas, there was another boss in town. This one was perhaps the most unassuming of ladies, and within just a few years of setting foot on American soil for the first time, she had built up one of the largest organized crime empires the still-new nation had ever seen. → Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 TopTenz Properties Our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Our sister channel TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Our Newest Channel about Interesting Places: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - D. Kelly Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Corrie Ten Boom - Saved estimated 800 lives during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. https://youtu.be/7Pec52qqquk Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Was The Gestapo’s Most Wanted https://youtu.be/MLmojDxNr8M