Posted: 2/10/2014 4:05:36 AM EDT
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OK what is with the liberal media? I will only post a paragraph from the Huffington Post
The mansion was built in 1922 by Clarence Busch, a member of the Anheuser-Busch brewing family. Capone, who made a vast fortune importing and selling liquor during prohibition, bought it in 1928 for $40,000 after being chased out of Chicago and later Los Angeles, according Ron Chepesiuk, a journalist and author of the book Gangsters of Miami.
"A lot of the booze he was marketing was coming through Miami and south Florida," said Paul George, a leading Florida historian. Marketing? Importing? It was against the Law... a kinder gentler criminal? |