Career
Born in Russia, he immigrated to the United States as a child and later grew up in Boston. After his father died, he went to work at the age of nine delivering groceries and later became apprenticed as a meatcutter. At the start of Prohibition, the 21-year-old Linsey began bootlegging illegal liquor with Charles "King" Solomon from a front business, the National Realty Company.
He also bought Canadian liquor from the Bronfman"s and, although serving a year for violations of the Volstead Acting, he was acquitted from his two later indictments on similar charges.
He was alleged by Vinnie Teresa to have been involved in wholesale gambling in the time post Prohibition era. He died in Florida of natural causes in 1994.