STetc - cheese link didn't work, here's a similar one

[Joseph Tracy]

This branching out is true of most larger scale criminal enterprises, 
and definitely true about the largest Canadian liquor families, 
especially after Capone was brought down on tax evasion, and 
money-laundering became an essential part of organized crime. The CIA's 
criminal  secrecy required the same skills. I saw a cartoon yesterday of 
someone listening to a radio and hearing the message "if you have 
nothing to hide why are you worried about privacy", he was staring 
confused at the one of the CIA's completely redacted documents released 
by a FOIA action.

On 9/13/26 2:06 AM, Michael Bailey via Pynchon-l wrote:
> https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/al-ralph-capone-dairy-industry-milk-cheese
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> Capone’s interests weren’t just relegated to alcohol, though. In the early 1930s, he extended his Midwestern empire by making moves to acquire a milk processor, Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc., along with his brother and other gangsters. According to the Douglas County Museum<https://www.facebook.com/docomuseum/posts/1342306285880457:0> of Illinois, the hustle was that Ralph Capone would ship in milk from neighboring Wisconsin, which was cheaper. They then bottled it in Meadowmoor’s facilities. That way, the Capones could bypass local fixed dairy pricing and also halt the milkmen’s union from distributing only local milk. Former Chicago police officer and mafia associate Fred Pascente corroborates this in his memoir,<https://books.google.com/books?id=ey3FCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=al+capone+meadowmoor+dairies&source=bl&ots=V-t-CwSCWg&sig=jIhFmY5YIsU3y5BcedoePSmj-jg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip4InOvJTZAhXjQ98KHfHFDkg4ChDoAQg6MAM#v=onepage&q=al%20capone%20meadowmoor%20dairies&f=false> detailing how Meadowmoor “was actually a Capone front organization designed to undercut the city’s reigning milk cartel.”
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