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Capone helped whisky barons beat Prohibition

IT WAS a curious encounter in an exclusive wine and spirit merchants that linked the Scottish whisky industry to the notorious gangsters of Prohibition America.
Jack "Legs" Diamond, one of America's most notorious bootleggers, walked into Berry Brothers & Rudd on London's St James's Street one day in 1920 and ordered several hundred cases of their best Scotch.
His request may have raised some eyebrows, given that the firm had been purveyors of wine and spirits to royalty and nobility for more than 300 years. But he wasn't turned away.
New research by a Scottish author suggests that Berry Brothers & Rudd were secretly involved in smuggling Scotch whisky into the United States during the 13 years it was "dry".
George Rosie, author of Curious Scotland, Tales from a Hidden History, which chronicles the antics of the bootleggers, said the very profitable relationship between respectable whisky firms and American mobsters "is one of......

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