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Madame Stephanie St Clair: 40 Thieves Street Gang

stephanie-300x300 — Stephanie “Madame” St Clair

Stephanie St Clair aka Queenie aka Madame St Clair was a French immigrant who moved to New York City in 1912. She was born in 1886, originally in Martinique, an island in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean.

St Clair was a tough and fearless lady of the streets and even by modern day standards considered a force to be reckoned with.

In 1922 she invested $10k of her own money into a numbers bank in Harlem. Her numbers game was so profitable that the Jewish and Italian gangs wanted in on her hustle. She refused and battled not only other gangs but the local authorities. When the cops came knocking she took on the NYPD, testifying about kickbacks that she had paid to them in order to let her operate her illegal rackets. Her testimony resulted in the firing of more than a dozen New York police officers.

FACTS ABOUT STEPHANIE ST CLAIR

The first black Godmother

Affiliated with the infamous New York extortion gang, the 40 Thieves

Recruiter and mentor of Harlem’s first black Godfather, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson

Ran a lucrative numbers operation which, unlike many of her male counterparts, never came under the control of the Italian mafia

Died in 1969 in Harlem –still very rich from the profits of her illegal numbers rackets

Stay tuned for my exclusive story on Madame St Clair. I am absolutely fascinated by this woman and the power she held. She was a true gangster and the time period of history in which she operated makes her a street legend.

It’s difficult to imagine women like her existed 100 years ago when ladies most certainly did not dominate in a man’s world –especially within the underworld.

Stephanie St Clair was a well protected and well respected BOSS. She single-handedly changed the game and she did it all with numbers.

When I think of Madame St Clair’s bold, striking femininity the Marilyn Monroe quote comes to mind…..

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it”

FIND A GRAVE: Stephanie “Madame Queen” St. Clair

Birth:

1886, Martinique

Death:

1969
Harlem
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA

Madame Queen was a female gang leader who ran numerous criminal enterprises in Harlem, New York during the 1920’s & 30’s. Born in Martinique, an island in the East Caribbean in 1886, she arrived in the United States via Marseilles, France in 1912. Along with her chief enforcer Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, she took on Dutch Schultz for control of the Harlem numbers racket. When Shultz was shot & mortally wounded in 1935, Madame Queen sent a telegram to his hospital bed which read, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” The incident made headlines across the nation. By the 1940s, “Bumpy” Johnson had took control in Harlem and St. Clair became less involved in the numbers game. She died quietly in Harlem in 1969. She was portrayed by Novella Nelson in the 1984 film “Cotton Club” & by Cicely Tyson in the 1997 film “Hoodlum”. (bio by: Terrance Crooms)

Burial: Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum Manhattan New York County (Manhattan) New York, USA
Maintained by: Find A Grave Originally Created by: Terrance Crooms Record added: Aug 26, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 96066386

Aryan Nation Prison Gang Takes Credit For The Bloody Attack That Leaves Boston Bomber Paralyzed?

Accused-Boston-Marathon-Bomber-Severely-Injured-In-Prison-May-Never-Walk-Or-Talk-Again-300x181 — Infamous Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was the victim of an “unfortunate accident” at Ft. Devens Detention Center.

Let me just insert this small disclaimer, I am not sure if this story is authentic in any way.

According to this article on Empire News, members of the Aryan Nation, a white supremacists gang within the same detention center as the ‘Boston bomber’ have taken credit for a bloody attack which left him unable to possibly walk again. The weapon? A banana peeler.

A member of the Aryan Nation claims that the attack did the American people justice. He also makes claims that “other gangs wanted him” but that they outbid them in a bounty supposedly held by prison guards. He then goes on to say that he and his fellow gang members were given sentence REDUCTIONS for following through with the grisly attack.

The story definitely seems a little “questionable” based on some of the statements made here. To my knowledge, there was no major news coverage of the story. I believe that if a story of this magnitude were true, everybody involved would be plastered across the breaking news scroll, guards included. The media loves a sensational story, no doubt CNN or Huffington would have a field day with this. Based on stories I have heard, a lot “stranger” things happen behind those hardcore prison walls. Violence would seem to be fairly typical, after all prison is considered the “concrete jungle”.

That being said, I am kind of prone to believe this “news” reeks of total fabrication –but I’ll let you be the judge (and jury) of that.

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