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The Purple Gang («La banda púrpura»), también conocida como The Sugar House Gang, era un grupo criminal de contrabandistas y secuestradores compuesta predominantemente por gánsteres judíos.
The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers composed predominantly of Jewish gangsters. They operated in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1920s of the Prohibition era and came to be Detroit's dominant criminal gang.
The Purple Gang was Detroit’s most notorious organized crime gang in the 1920s and 1930s. Led chiefly by the Burnstein (often misspelled Bernstein) brothers Raymond, Joseph, Isadore and Abraham - the Purple Gang was made up of immigrants from Detroit’s lower east side.
Ambientada en Detroit durante la Ley Seca, este tenso drama criminal narra la lucha de un policía para detener la violencia juvenil y las pandillas que amenazan con destruir la ciudad. La historia comienza cuando él y un idealista trabajador social discuten sobre el destino de un joven violento.
Detroit’s Purple Gang, which operated during the 1920s and 1930s, had its beginnings in the Jewish section of Detroit’s East Side. Originally formed around Samuel “Sammie Purple” Cohen, the leadership of this group of petty criminals was initially assumed by the three Bernstein brothers — Abe, Isadore, and Ray — who had moved to ...
5 de may. de 2022 · Purple Gang: Detroit's Own Prohibition-Era Criminal Gang. Historian Joe Oldenburg dives into the history of Detroit's most notorious gang. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive...
22 de feb. de 2018 · Beginning in the Prohibition Era, the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada, kidnapping, and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of American's most notorious criminal groups.
