History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1234 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Prohibition and Organised Crime
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The idea
Prohibition created a vast illegal trade, and Al Capone's Chicago organisation grew rich on it until he was imprisoned for tax evasion in nineteen thirty-one.
In practice
The anchor's figure for Capone's income, more than one hundred million dollars a year by nineteen twenty-seven.
Where people slip
Digital History gives sixty million dollars for nineteen twenty-seven and says half the city's police were on his payroll.
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