Corruption
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“The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people – with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. (4.113)”
Nick doesn't realize that fixing the World Series was a such a simple task and compared it to "a burglar blowing a safe." Wolfsheim takes advantage of his wealth and underworld connections to stay clean.