Casa Nostra, Mafia, the Outfit. the Mob are some of the names used. Former
bootleggers, con men and pimps used the liquor industry to launder their
money and gain respectability. A lot pf the mob entrepreneurs loved the
ponies and would mingle with J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson at the track or
golf course(La Costa). J Edgar was much to busy ferreting out reds &
pinkos---The great crime fighter passed on lynching and the deeds of his
Stork Club friends, usually introduced to the G-Man by someone in the oil
bidness.
That's the short version.
"Ric" > wrote in message
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> I give up - who?
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> >
> >> I was told 95% of wholesalers in Florida descended from firms set up
> >> right after Prohibition---the laws are stacked against small stores &
> >> wholesale houses.
> > That is true for the distribution (as oppossed to retail of most liquor
in
> > the US and surprise surprise if you can't figure out which former
> > "racketeering" group managed to become "legit" quickly and efficiently,
> > clue who had the connections for imports and machinery for delivery?
> >
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