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What was the undoing of the Purple Gang? Was it the repeal of Prohibition?

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What was the undoing of the Purple Gang? Was it the repeal of Prohibition?

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No. The Purple Gang self-destructed. Jealousy, betrayal, not being cohesive — they weren’t like the Italian Mafia, a very tight group — were all reasons they imploded. Between 1927 and 1935, 18 Purples were murdered, and I could find no evidence of them being murdered by anyone else except by other Purple members. One of the important things about the Collingwood Massacre is that the guys who were killed were [fellow] Purple Gang members. These were Purples cleaning house. Also, the Purples did very little rumrunning. They had a group called the Little Jewish Navy that did some rumrunning, but the Purples controlled the rackets. They controlled all the horse-betting parlors, and there were about 700 of them in the city. They controlled all the bookmaking operations in Detroit. They controlled prostitution, narcotics, and gambling, which was a huge financial boon. Did the Italian Mafia and the Purple Gang lock horns? No. I think it’s a Hollywood myth that the Jews, Irish, and Italians a

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