Hyman Abrams (born Abramovitz; May 1, 1901 – January 1975)''U.S., Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794–1995'' was an American businessman,
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family in
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, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), the son of Israel and Ethel "Etta" Dimenstein Abramovitz. They immigrated to Boston in 1906. He became a U.S. citizen in 1923, when he changed his surname to Abrams. He started out as a restaurateur in
Boston
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.\ Abrams and other members of Solomon's organization took over Boston's criminal operations for themselves following Solomon's murder in 1933. He would later become involved in financing syndicate controlled casinos with
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, specifically the ''
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. In 1957, he partnered with
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(of the
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and Lansky's
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casino),
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