1. Isadore Blumenfeld, commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian-born Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades.
18 Facts About Kid Cann
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Kid Cann remains the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota.
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Kid Cann was associated with several high-profile crimes in the city's history.
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Kid Cann was tried and acquitted for the 1924 murder of cab driver Charles Goldberg.
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Kid Cann was unsuccessfully prosecuted in Federal Court for both conspiracy and racketeering in the mobbed up hostile takeover and dismantling of the Twin City Rapid Transit streetcar system during the early 1950s.
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Kid Cann remained involved in organized crime until his death and left behind an estimated $10 million fortune.
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Kid Cann was indicted by a grand jury and, on January 29,1936, his trial began, where he was prosecuted jointly by the Hennepin County Attorney and the State's Attorney's Office.
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FBI files allege that Kid Cann was involved with Bugsy Siegel in the running of the El Cortez Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Kid Cann's murder made the front pages of newspapers across the Twin Cities, but few in Minneapolis were surprised when the police investigation was quickly shut down.
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Kid Cann was later accused of allying himself with an Italian-American Farmer-Labor Party fixer turned corporate raider named Fred Ossanna, and using force to intimidate stockholders to selling.
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In 1954, the Chicago Crime Commission named Kid Cann as involved with the Chicago Outfit in the jukebox racket.
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In 1959, Kid Cann was indicted on Federal charges for violating the Mann Act by transporting a Chicago prostitute named Marilyn Tollefson across State lines to work for his prostitution ring in the Twin Cities.
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Kid Cann admitted that he'd tried to bribe a juror at his trial.
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In 1961, after being accused during sentencing of ordering rigged dice for use in his Twin Cities illegal gambling operations, of blowing up a business rival's house in Miami Beach, and of receiving a cut of the money skimmed from Las Vegas' Sands Hotel and Casino through a "strawman" named Mr Isaacs, Kid Cann was sentenced by Federal Judge Edward Devitt to a second two-year sentence for attempted jury tampering.
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Kid Cann served four years at USP Leavenworth and was released in 1964, after his wife Lillian paid his $12,500 fine for violating the Mann Act.
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Kid Cann frequently visited his family and friends in Minnesota.
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Kid Cann helped out many a person who was broke - who had absolutely nothing.
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Kid Cann never forgot his friends and he always kept the family together.