Running 'the numbers' was the second most profitable business in New York City in 1934, and it was also the most dangerous. Following the arrest of Madam Queen, the influential woman who oversees the fraud in Harlem, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the operation and finds himself in the midst of an invasion by a ruthless mafia.
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Running 'the numbers' was the second most profitable business in New York City in 1934, and it was also the most dangerous. Following the arrest of Madam Queen, the influential woman who oversees the fraud in Harlem, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the operation and finds himself in the midst of an invasion by a ruthless mafia.
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