Book

Prohibition Made The Mafia: The Men - The Money - The Mob

2019

Synopsis

T. Warren Wyndham, with a Southern Baptist upbringing, spent 40 years in the wine and spirits industry. The timing of his career allowed him to witness and chronicle many of the legal and illegal practices in effect at the time. His career path, starting in 1964, would include meeting some of the major players from the Prohibition era and the Roaring Twenties, including Meyer Lansky, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Ola, Sol Weinstein, and the colorful Joe Sonken. Here are some of the stories. Some names have been changed to protect the "innocent" and also to protect T. Warren.

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