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Much of the bronfman fortune in Canada was made during Prohibition by selling Canadian booze to American bootleggers such as Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz and Lucky Luciano; they became the American Mafia. "I never went to the other side of the border to count the empty Seagram's bottles,"; said Samuel Bronfman.
When Prohibition ended in 1933, the U.S. demanded $60 million in taxes from the Canadian liquor suppliers, but they eventually lowered Bronfman's bill to $3 million "of which Bronfman graciously allowed the Canadian government to pay half,"; says Olindo Romeo Chiocca of Nelson.
As the editor of 200 quotes from 60 gangsters and 'businessmen' like Bronfman in Mobsters and Thugs (Guernica $15), Chiocca has made a humourous primer on underworld lore and organized crime. Each of Chiocca's quotes are drawn from the likes of mobster Dutch Schultz and J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director from 1924 to 1972. "There is no Mafia,"; Hoover said. 1-55071-104-0
[BCBW AUTUMN 2000]
When Prohibition ended in 1933, the U.S. demanded $60 million in taxes from the Canadian liquor suppliers, but they eventually lowered Bronfman's bill to $3 million "of which Bronfman graciously allowed the Canadian government to pay half,"; says Olindo Romeo Chiocca of Nelson.
As the editor of 200 quotes from 60 gangsters and 'businessmen' like Bronfman in Mobsters and Thugs (Guernica $15), Chiocca has made a humourous primer on underworld lore and organized crime. Each of Chiocca's quotes are drawn from the likes of mobster Dutch Schultz and J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director from 1924 to 1972. "There is no Mafia,"; Hoover said. 1-55071-104-0
[BCBW AUTUMN 2000]
Submitted on July 3, 2003 in By David.
