‘Mother’ Rosie Hertz ran a network of brothels in the early 1900s and spent years paying off corrupt cops—until she finally ended up behind bars

Overseeing an army of thieves and pickpockets on the Lower East Side in the late 1800s, she was ‘as adept in her business as the best stock-broker in Wall Street’

For Isaac Zuker and other arsonists, defrauding insurance companies was a normal part of doing business in the late 1800s