Later Years
Bernstein, who had begun branching out to other major cities in the country during the mid-1920s, eventually became an associate of New York mobsters Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, later became a partner in several syndicate gambling casinos in Miami. After his brother Ray was imprisoned for his part in the "Collingwood Massacre", he devoted the rest of his life to getting his brother out of prison until his death on March 7, 1968 in his hotel room of the Book-Cadillac.
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