Sunday, December 2, 2012
"Boardwalk Empire" is a hit television show that shares the same name—and a few facts—as the nonfiction book that inspired the HBO series.
What's in a name? When it comes to comparing Nucky Johnson, Atlantic City's real-life politics and racketeering boss, to HBO's fictionalized "Nucky Thompson" in the series Boardwalk Empire, the answer is more than just the TV character's fictionalized name. Author Nelson Johnson, who literally wrote the book on the real Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, says HBO's Terence Winter has said the fictionalized character created for the TV version of Boardwalk Empire is 70 percent drawn from Johnson's 2002 book of the same name. When I told Johnson, a state Superior Court judge whom I've known for more than two decades, that it strikes me that the percentages are more like 60 percent fiction and 40 percent fact in the HBO series, he laughed and quickly …
Saturday, January 21, 2012
No trial date has been set. Their next appearance is scheduled for March 9.
Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. and Salvatore Pelullo were among a group of defendants who went before a federal judge in Camden on Friday afternoon, Jan. 20. Scarfo, of Galloway Township, and Pelullo were among 13 who were arrested on racketeering charges in November of last year. No trial date was set at Friday’s Status Update Conference, but the next conference was set for March 9, said Matthew Reilly, deputy public affairs officer at the United States Attorney’s Office/District of New Jersey. Reilly said the discussion at Friday’s conference before Judge Robert Kugler centered on discovery, meaning the sides exchanged evidence to be used in the upcoming trial. The proceedings lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. Scarfo, who was arrested at his …
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Scarfo was arrested Tuesday morning at his home in Galloway Township. His wife surrendered to authorities in Camden.
Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. was among 13 arrested arrested on Tuesday, Nov. 1, for racketeering, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday afternoon. Scarfo was arrested Tuesday morning at his home in Galloway Township, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer said. He faces 25 counts, each carrying with it anywhere between a five-year and 30-year maximum jail sentence. They were also accused of other offenses, including the illegal takeover of a publicly traded company. The charges originate from the alleged extortionate takeover of FirstPlus Financial Group, a publicly held company in Texas, and the subsequent looting of the company by members of the racketeering enterprise through a series of …
El Patron
2:45 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
BoardWalk Empire one of the best shows. I love the old school Mobster Movies and to have a show with Nucky, AL Copene, and Lucky Luciano this show has the big shots, of the old times. GREAT SHOW more ›