A Hothead Loudmouth
In 1931, the criminal gangs of New York founded “the Commission,” which was meant to merge several Mafias under one governing form. “It was a time of no more independent operators doing things the way they wanted,” said Sullivan County historian John Conway, who wrote the 2000 book “Dutch Schultz and his Lost Catskills’ Treasure.”
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Conway wrote that Dutch was viewed by his peers at the Commission as a hotheaded loudmouth, a quality they disliked. This isn’t to say that his peers weren’t hotheaded and ruthless themselves, but, according to Conway, Dutch outdid all of them.