While the United States is largely a law-abiding society, most Americans do not consider the manufacture and sale of illegal alcohol as much of a crime. If anything, freedom-loving Americans think of bootleg distillers as underground heroes who do the dirty work of fighting government intrusion. The reality of bootlegging is very different from its ...
Al Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in the history of the United States. Capone reigned over the speakeasies, bootlegging business and other illegal ventures during the Prohibition era during the Roaring Twenties in Chicago. Capone’s nemesis was crime fighter Elliott Ness and the Untouchables, but it as tax evasion that finally sent ...
The organized crime group known as La Cosa Nostra is an Italian-based mafia that developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily Italy. In the beginning, before they were known as La Cosa Nostra (LCN) was simply a band of resistance fighters, who may have played a part in resistance to Hitler’s Nazi Army. Over the ...
I was watching an old Kristi McNichol movie and figured I would check out Little Darlings online. Now I’ve never seen the movie before, in fact I didn’t watch it I had to go to bed to get up for work in the morning. But I was astounded at the prices it was going for ...
In 1920 the 18th Amendment went into effect outlawing the production and sale of intoxicating alcohol; however, what most Americans did not realize was that prohibition would also promote a major increase in crime. Those promoting prohibition claimed families would be saved, health would improve and workers would perform better on the job, but the ...
Between 1920 and 1933, the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol was made illegal in the United State because of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. By 1920, many of the states had already banned alcohol and many local governments kept those dry laws long after the 18th Amendment was repealed with the ...
R. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, is a very successful singer, songwriter and producer. He first hit the music scene as founder and lead singer of the R&B; group Public Announcement. Their album “Born Into the ’90s”, released in January of 1992 was a huge success eventually going ...
