 He was a business partner of Michael Redstone, the father of Sumner Redstone, who is currently the CEO of Viacom.During the 1950s, his involvement in illegal gambling operations was investigated by the Kefauver hearings, where authorities would claim was "the largest racket kingdom in existence in the city of Boston".By the 1970s he had a close physical resemblance to an elderly United States Senator Barry Goldwater.