Nucky Johnson's Organization was a corrupt political machine based in Atlantic City, New Jersey that held power during the Prohibition era.
Its boss, Enoch "Nucky" Johnson , coordinated the Organizations' bootlegging, gambling, racketeering, and prostitution activities. Scott and Congressman John J. After the conviction of Kuehnle in , Smith Johnson's son became boss of the organization.
Under his son's new regime, the organization would enjoy its most successful 30 years in its history. Nucky became undersheriff in while his father was sheriff of Atlantic City. The younger Johnson was eventually elected sheriff in Johnson also held several other jobs, including: Atlantic County Treasurer β , County Tax Collector, publisher of a weekly newspaper, bank director, president of a building and loan company, and director of a Philadelphia brewery.
Johnson was known to be a very well dressed and nice man who would rarely say no. Johnson once explained, "When I lived well, everybody lived well. When Prohibition went in effect in Atlantic City in January , Johnson and his organization went straight into the bootlegging business.
Nucky had also helped Republican building constructor Edward Bader get elected as mayor in Johnson and Luciano began forming the Big Seven during the mid-to-late s. The group was supposed to help solve bootlegging disputes and serve as a predecessor to the National Crime Syndicate in the s. It was around this time that Johnson met a bellhop at the Ritz, named Jimmy Boyd ; the two took an instant liking to each other.
