[mugs99]

Too bad Elliot Ness couldn't have shut them down

Elliot Ness shut down their competition. Prohibition always breeds corruption.
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[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Elliot Ness shut down their competition. Prohibition always breeds corruption.

Elliot Ness was not corrupt and would have shut them down had he any shred of evidence.

Of course, this rum running rivalry was also part of the feud between the mob and the Kennedy clan. (Notice that two of them were victims of very suspicious murders, one of which we will never know the full details about.)