The Law That Broke the Still
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The Law That Broke the Still
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Sixty-six days into Prohibition, the sheriff of Hennepin County was under arrest. The county attorney was next. A bootlegger, a brothel owner, and the highest law enforcement officials in Minnesota's most populous county had been running Canadian whiskey through Minneapolis in railroad cars full of scrap metal — and a federal court was about to hear exactly how it worked. Today's episode traces the Winnipeg Liquor Conspiracy of 1920, the Norwegian-American congressman from Granite Falls who wrote the law they broke, the Stearns County farmers who turned moonshine into a matter of survival and pride, and the city across the river that became the safest place in America to be a criminal — as long as you did your dirty work somewhere else.
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