Episode 5: Repeal

in 1933 the gangsters of New York were riding high. After a decade of increasingly violent liquor wars, the criminal landscape had reached a relatively peaceful equilibrium. However, while the underworld was experiencing a golden age of good governance in the early ‘30s, legitimate, financial and political institutions were failing. Badly. This combination caused the end of Prohibition and the beginnings of serious investigations of our friends in the burgeoning mob.