Background
Not much is known about Rothman"s early life but what is known is that he was born to Jewish parents and was born in New York City, New New York
Not much is known about Rothman"s early life but what is known is that he was born to Jewish parents and was born in New York City, New New York
Rothman had a lengthy criminal career and served a term of imprisonment in 1938 in New York State. Rothman served in in the United States Army as a private from 1942 to 1945, and received an Honorable Disharge. After, Rothman went to Los Angeles, California in mid-late 1945.
Cohen ordered their deaths, because Levinson and Gamson were moving in on his business, including: extortion, prostitution, narcoticsand Siegel and Cohen"s gambling rackets.
Jimmy Fratianno had considered Harold "Hooky" Rothman to be Cohen"s toughest and smartest manitoba On June 20, 1947, Siegel was murdered by his East Coast bosses.
Dragna ran into a road block in the form of Cohen, who wasn"t about to let Dragna take it all over without a fight and the war was on. Luckily, Cohen was washing his hands in the bathroom, a weird fetish he had of germs, after shaking Fratianno"s hands.
As Fratianno left, he signaled Dragna gang members and they rushed into the store.
Frank Bompensiero stuck a sawed-off shotgun in Rothman"s face and ordered him to get back into the shop. As two other hitmen ran past him, Rothman swung at the shotgun causing it to go off obliterating his face, killing him instantly. In the show, he has a right-hand man named Terry Mandel.
He is played by Robert Knepper.
