It's an interesting writeup by salon.com for sure... I enjoyed it so much that I read the entire Wikipedia article on Rothstein as well, which reads very differ

It's an interesting writeup by salon.com for sure... I enjoyed it so much that I read the entire Wikipedia article on Rothstein as well, which reads very differently than the article. He wasn't randomly shot because of his gangsterism prowess, he lost $320,000 in a supposedly crooked poker game and refused to pay up. His nickname "the brain" was one of his many, apparently. I find the salon article to be outlandish in the many claims it makes, which based solely on one man's interpretation of Rothstein's wife's memoir. Still a fun read, though.