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Along with the political rackets, Eisner began to extort New York restaurant owners and workers, and with that it grew again, with the fat eye and the envy grew, and there always was, so whoever wanted a bigger slice of the pie had only to massage the ego, in which they didn't have their own building, they rented from him, everyone did that.

Eisner, working through a gangster named Jules Modgilewsky , aka Julie Martin, made deals with the leaders of Walters Local, which had 16 Local Pokers and 302 coffee shops, and all to extort money by forcing restaurant owners to join the Metropolitan Restaurant & Diner Owners Association, and each of those establishments belonged to him, so they went on strike.

Even back then, when he continued to extort each of those landlords, they would soon have no money for rent, and money doesn't grow on trees, where there was an employers association founded by Eisner.