Attended Kent State University, as well as Case Western University. Promoter of boxers Muhammud Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mike Tyson, among others. Children: Deborah, Carl, Eric. Boxing promoter. Esquire magazine reports that between the years 1951-1966, he was arrested 35 times on charges ranging from running red lights to manslaughter. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1997. House was bombed in 1957. Subsequent investigation led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (1961) -- establishing that the "exclusionary rule" was also applicable to the states, not simply the federal government. Was a numbers runner for the Jewish Mafia in Cleveland
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