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Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land. Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular ...
As a result, Lythgoe became extremely wealthy and resided in the Lucerne Hotel with other bootlegger companions. [10] Lythgoe became famous in the United States during the mid 1920s as a result of her skill in the bootlegging industry. She became known as "The Bahama Queen" and her nickname Cleo became a part of her bootlegging identity.
By 1920, Remus was earning $500,000 a year, approximately $7,605,000 today. Following the ratification of the 18th Amendment and the passage of the Volstead Act, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition began in the US. Within a few months, Remus saw that his criminal clients were becoming very wealthy very quickly through the illegal production and ...
John Hopkin Ashley (March 19, 1888 – November 1, 1924) was an American outlaw, bank robber, bootlegger, and occasional pirate active in southern Florida during the 1910s and 1920s. Between 1915 and 1924, the self-styled " King of the Everglades " or " Swamp Bandit " operated from various hideouts in the Florida Everglades .
A bootlegger based in the southern region of Illinois: Birger's gang, along with the Shelton Brothers gang, waged war with each other, and the local Ku Klux Klan throughout the 1920s. Fred William Bowerman: 1893–1953
The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers composed predominantly of Jewish gangsters. They operated in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1920s of the Prohibition era and came to be Detroit's dominant criminal gang. Excessive violence and infighting caused the gang to destroy itself in the ...
Charles Dean O'Banion (July 8, 1892 – November 10, 1924) was an American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better known as Dion O'Banion, although he never went by that first name.
The first bootlegger to be tried and convicted using federal income tax law, Sullivan's case is a test case that will open the way for notorious Prohibition bootleggers such as Chicago's Al Capone to be tried for their various crimes using the charge of income tax evasion.