The Myth, the Mafia and the Magic by Andrew Cameron

Author:Andrew Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

William Whiteley and the Mafia connection

Whiteley’s main business was exporting his whisky brands and other spirits to countries around the world, particularly to America. For any other wine and spirit merchant the prospect of Prohibition must have been daunting but there would always be a way to profit from Prohibition if you were the type of person to strike deals with people of ‘onerous and speculative character’.

Whiteley was certainly not the sort to let an ill-conceived law get in the way of his business. What he needed was a like-minded partner in America, someone who could respond to the increasing demand for high quality illegal whisky. That partner turned out to be the Mafia.

The Temperance movement were responsible for the introduction of Prohibition, they wanted to make America a sober, more Christian society but the irony is that Prohibition was responsible for the greatest expansion of organised crime in American history. The sense of self-righteousness that the country enjoyed immediately following the Act soon diminished as the hard reality of life without wine, beer, and spirits started to dawn on them. The loss of freedom to buy alcohol made the most law-abiding citizens indignant with rage and illegal stills were hastily constructed in the homes of people from all social classes.

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