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Archived [ARCHIVED THREAD] - if prohibition never happened, what racket (if any) would the mob have turned to?
Posted: 12/21/2016 11:41:32 AM EDT
And would they have been as powerful/influential through the middle of the 20th century as they were IRL?

Link Posted: 12/21/2016 11:47:29 AM EDT
[#1]
Would have focused even more on what they already did.

Prostitution/Human trafficking
Extortion/"Protection" rackets
Smuggling non-taxed Tobacco and other taxed items for profit (ETA)
Bribery/Political Corruption
Union Rackets
Gambling (ETA)

Link Posted: 12/21/2016 11:49:50 AM EDT
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They'd be into the same things they were into before prohibition & after prohibition.

Prohibition didn't make organized crime, nor did its end break them.

Link Posted: 12/21/2016 11:50:02 AM EDT
[#3]
they went to drugs as they became illegal.
Link Posted: 12/21/2016 11:50:42 AM EDT
[#4]
Other illegal drugs and gambling, nothing different.
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