Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream
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Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream

Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream

By
David Rabinovitch (Author)  

Hardback

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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." Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
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.
  • Contributor: David Rabinovitch
  • Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN13: 9781538172599
  • Number of Pages: 248
  • Packaged Dimensions: 160x236x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 481
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date: 2023-12-15
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: 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.

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