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- Morris_Levy abstract "Morris Levy (August 27, 1927 – May 21, 1990), born Moishe Levy, was an American music industry executive, widely known as the founder and owner of Roulette Records, owner of the Birdland jazz club and Roulette Room. At the peak of his businesses, Levy owned more than 90 companies employing 900 people, including record pressing plants, tape-duplicating plants, a distribution company, a prominent New England chain of 81 record stores (Strawberries), and numerous record labels. He was convicted in 1990 on extortion charges from an FBI investigation into the alleged infiltration of organized crime into the record business — and died after losing his appeal and two months before he was scheduled to report to prison.Levy, who went by Moishe or Mo within the record industry, was described by Billboard magazine as \"one of the record industry's most controversial and flamboyant players\" and by Variety as \"The Octopus\" for having a far-reaching control in every area of the record business disproportionate to the sizes of his companies. Allmusic described him as \"a notorious crook who swindled artists out of their owed royalties.\" Levy was widely known for falsely taking writing credit in order to receive royalties — enriching himself at the expense of many of his signed artists, especially his black R&B artists.".
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- Morris_Levy deathDate "1990-05-21".
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