Booze Badboys & Bootleggers

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What Grandpa Never Told You... A Lot of Northern New York Families Made a Shady Living As Smugglers Bootleggers and Booze Runners During Prohibition </span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1920 - First Year of Prohibition: A Watertown police officer leaped from a moving taxi onto a fleeing car to arrest Massena bootleggers. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Federal agents raided Ogdensburg by land and sea to crack down on rum-running. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2 Potsdam ministers helped federal agents conduct righteous speakeasy raids. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ogdensburg's Fred Lassail: Bootlegger and Dad. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A high-speed chase down the streets of Massena led to the arrest of Potsdam bootleggers. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An Ogdensburg mayoral candidate defended the city's leading speakeasy owner.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>12000 quarts of liquor were seized on a ship docked at Cardinal Ontario by Prescott Customs agents after the booze showed up in Ogdensburg. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An ALCOA crane operator's suicide in Massena was blamed on bootlegging smuggling and gambling. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gouverneur's Fred Scozzafava crashed into the New York Central train in DeKalb while hauling a load of smuggled booze. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ogdensburg's Joseph Rish's colorful career as a speakeasy owner. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Burglars robbed the U.S. Customs House for Booze at Rouses Point. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cranberry Lake Norfolk Pyrites and others raided. </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Federal G-Men Led Raids Across Northern New York.</span></li></ul>