Jukebox Empire
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7259-9 (ISBN)
Jukebox Empire follows the many twists and turns in one man’s pursuit of the American dream, from a self-taught electronics genius to money launderer for the mob. This book exposes how the jukebox industry became the vertically integrated business model for organized crime at a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen throughout the country. Anyone can afford a nickel for a song and every week the jukeboxes generate millions of dollars in cash, untaxed income, that needed to be laundered.. Beneath this wholesome veneer lies a seamy underworld of juke joints, operators’ routes, smoke-filled showrooms, and violence. Rabinovitch reveals the details of the mob’s international money-laundering scheme to finance running guns to Cuba. The investigation pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”
David Rabinovitch is a winner of the EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini awards. Significant films include the documentary Politics of Poison, which was screened for a Congressional committee and resulted in the suspension of the domestic use of the chemicals Agent Orange, and the mini-series Secret Files of the Inquisition, which dramatized a thousand years of intolerance by the Catholic Church, based on newly accessed archival files. David hails from the town of Morden, Manitoba.
Illustrations
Cast of Characters
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One – Origins
Chapter Two – Pay to Play
Chapter Three – Coin Men
Chapter Four – Crimebusters
Chapter Five – Biggest Bank Robbery in the World
Chapter Six – Dollye
Chapter Seven – Air Chase
Chapter Eight – Front Page
Chapter Nine – Biggest Burglary Solved
Chapter Ten – Wheels of Justice
Chapter Eleven – Scheme and Artifice
Chapter Twelve – Shoot the Moon
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-7259-3 / 1538172593 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-7259-9 / 9781538172599 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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