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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 4
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May 23, 1950 |
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a one time was reputed to be a member of the
notorious of Detroit, Michigan, which gang controlled a consider-
able amount of the criminal activities in Detroit, Michigan and Toledo, Ohide
However, when interviewed at one time by a Bureau Agent, denied that
he had ever been affiliated with the Purple Gang, altho e admitted that
he attended grammar school with JOE and B STEIN, brothers, who later
became members of the Purple Gang and that”he continued this association by
trading in bootleg whiskey with t with other members of that notorious
gang during the prohibition era. vised Bureau Agents that about
twenty-five years ago he left Detroit, Michigan for Akron, Ohio where he was
engaged for approximately four years in the bootleg alcohol business before |
he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, at which place he continued to interest himself
in bootlegging activities on a large scale and subsequentiy muscling his way ~
into gamblin, inball, slot machine, and other rackets.
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