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As the title says, without the cash the bootleg booze brought in, would the organized crime mobs(Capone etc...) taken off in the late 20's? Or would they remain in the background? I was watching a show on the St Valentines massacre and was wondering if without prohibition would that shoot out happen? I guess what im getting at would the mobs get as much influance as they did in our time?
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