ALCOHOL FRAUDS
SHOE POLISH SPIRITS
TAX EVASION CHARGES
OVER HUNDRED INDICTED
BIG AMERICAN ROUND-UP
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 3, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 1.
A Federal grand jury indicted 103 men, including policemen, Federal Treasury agents, doctors, and druggists on charges of distilling alcohol and brandies from materials, including shoe polish and cleaning fluids.
This is considered to be the biggest round-up in the history of the city, even including the prohibition era. The ring, in which hoodlums worked alongside apparently respectable professional men. is accused of defrauding the Government of at least £400,000 in taxes over a period of three and a half years. Eighty-six of the defendants were immediately arrested, and warrants have been issued against the others. Investigators said the ring distributed 10,000 gallons of alcohol every week to druggists for prescriptions, to extract-makers tor resale, to bakers and to doctors for medical purposes at half the regular price. It is alleged that policemen extracted bribes from the purchasers by threats of arrest. The headquarters of the ring were at the same address as "Lucky" Luciana used.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 5
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184ALCOHOL FRAUDS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 5
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