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Illegal Activities in the 1920s

Illegal Activities in the 1920s. Police Complicity in Crime - Black Sox Scandal - The Harding Administration Scandals - The Teapot Dome Scandal. Police Complicity in Crime.

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Illegal Activities in the 1920s

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  1. Illegal Activities in the 1920s Police Complicity in Crime - Black Sox Scandal - The Harding Administration Scandals - The Teapot Dome Scandal

  2. Police Complicity in Crime “All over the country police ... were more interested in being paid off well than in trying to fight the increasing criminality.”

  3. Prohibition • The 18th Amendment • Opened up profitable “industry” • Corruption became the norm • Organized crime took over • Few, if any consequences if caught

  4. Very profitable Small Salaries Easy Was the norm Few were held accountable Liked alcohol Dangerous job Ran alcohol trafficking groups Escorted liquor trucks Protected smugglers Accepted bribes Warned speakeasies and bootleggers of raids What the Cops Did Wrong Why What

  5. Al Capone • Ran the most powerful organized crime syndicate • Immune from arrest. • Received police aid. • St. Valentine's Day Massacre • Eventually was put in prison

  6. The Black Sox Scandal “The game of baseball is a clean, straight game. “ --William Howard Taft

  7. Buck Weaver, Fred McMullin, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, Swede Risberg, Lefty Williams, Ed Cicotte, Arnold “Chick” Gandil Charles Comiskey William Thomas “Sleepy Bill” Burns, Abe Attell, Hale Chase "The Big Bankroll" Arnold Rothstein Everyone Else (Well, at least it seemedthat way) The Conspirators

  8. Gandil Jackson+Weaver Williams+ McMullin+Felsch+Risberg+Ciccotte Comiskey Sullivan Rothstein Burns+Chase+Attell Path of Corruption EVERYONE ELSE

  9. Causes • Financial satisfaction • Belief in immunity • Separation of players • Resentment of coach

  10. The Beginning of the End • The betting odds change • The Reds win the World Series • Newspapers begin to print unconfirmed stories that the series was fixed • The Cubs play a questionable series • A Grand Jury investigates the Cubs incident, but it is expanded to include the World Series incident

  11. The Trial • All eight players and some gamblers are put on trial • The trial began in 1921 • The eight become known as the “Black Sox” • The confessions are lost • All are acquitted

  12. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson • Most well known figure of all the “Black Sox” • Attempted to win World Series despite knowledge of conspiracy • Informed coach, but was ignored • The famous “quote” that never happened

  13. The Harding Administration Scandal “ am not fit for this office and should never have been here” -- President Harding

  14. The Ohio Gang • Harry M. Daugherty - Attorney General • Albert B. Fall - Secretary of the Interior • Will H. Hays - Postmaster General • Charles R. Forbes - Head of the Veterans’ Bureau • Jess Smith - Justice Department. • Colonel Miller - Bureau of Alien Property

  15. General Corruption • The Justice Department • The Bureau of Investigation • The Prohibition Bureau of the Treasury Department • The Veterans' Bureau • The Department of the Interior • The Navy Department • The White House

  16. The Veterans’ Bureau Scandal • Run by Forbes • Conspired to choose hospital sites • Accepted Kickbacks • Bootlegging • Improper disposal of medical supplies • Misuse of travel budget

  17. Naval Oil reserves set up by Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Teapot Dome reserve in WY Elk Hill reserve in CA Edwin Denby Albert B. Fall did not support the idea Transfer from Navy to Interior by Edwin Denby and Fall The Teapot Dome Scandal

  18. The Scam • Teapot Dome - Harry F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company • Elk Hills - Edward L. Doheny's Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company • $ 400,000 in “loans” and gifts

  19. Getting Caught • Thomas J. Walsh • Sen. Robert M. Lafollette • The Press • Fall of Daugherty • Atlee Pomerene and Owen Roberts • Supreme Court Trial

  20. Aftermath • Oil back to government • Fall - $100,000, 1 year in prison • Sinclair - Prison • Forbes - Prison • Jess Smith - Suicide • Daugherty - Lost office • Embarrassment to Administration

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