1. Organized Crime Vs. Prohibition
Although there were over a half a dozen powerful gangs in New York, Chicago was the capital of racketeers, including Johnny Torrio, "Bugs Moran", O"Banions, and the Gennas (Behr,192).The most powerful and infamous bootlegger however, was of course Al Capone, operating out of Chicago. ... McGurn staged a delivery of alcohol to Moran at a warehouse and had his gang members pretend to be police officers and pretend to raid the transaction. Machine gun fire went off throughout the whole warehouse , McGurn killed all that were inside. Capone of course never got caught for the incident seeing that ...
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