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The LaMontages brothers
Group of 1920s bootleggers
Group of 1920s bootleggers
The LaMontages brothers -- Rene, Montaigu, William and Morgan—were high society bootleggers who made $2,000,000 annually through their illegal business during the early years of alcohol Prohibition in the United States.
A tip from a disgruntled employee led to their arrest and conviction, although the U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Mabel Willibrand, reported that "every conceivable political and personal appeal, including an appeal by a Cabinet officer, was made to squash the case." On February 9, 1923, the federal court fined each brother $2,000 and sentenced three of them to four months in prison and one to two months. However, it was 1929 before their listings in the Social Register were dropped.
References
References
- Cherrington, Ernest Hurst. (1924). "The Anti-saloon League Year Book: An Encyclopedia of Facts and Figures Dealing with the Liquor Traffic and the Temperance Reform". [[Anti-Saloon League]].
- (1959). "Repeal Review". Repeal Associates.
- Gordon, Ernest B.. (1943). "The Wrecking of the Eighteenth Amendment". The Alcohol Information Press.
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