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 Pablo Edronkin
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The history of George Remus, a lawyer turned a bootlegger, turned into something else is a wonderful example of a person who wins despite all odds. During the first years of the twentieth century the United States was tasting and trying an absurd prohibition of production, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages that naturally proved to be more counterproductive than anything else, and during that period of virtue imposed by short sighted moral pundits, all sorts of entrepreneurs turned crooks emerged. A lawyer by the name of George Remus that began his career as yet another naïve young man seeking justice for the world soon found a lot of customers among bootleggers and gangsters, from whom he learned the trade and soon enough the very just Mr. Remus began his new career, at which, as a highly educated man, he proved not only good but equally respectable. His booze was better than that of most traffickers - he didn't water it down - and his deliveries were always on time. So everyone liked Mr. Remus and he made a lot of money following basic marketing principles in the illegal market. However, he eventually got caught and his beloved wife suffered much to see his husband, a respected lawyer, being sent into jail with common crooks. However, she soon made a partnership - imagine to what level - with yet another very respectable man of law and justice: the very same federal agent, Frank Dodge, who had Mr. Remus sent to prison, and both spared no time beginning with their own adventures: they systematically sold all Mr. Remuss' assets using the power of attorney that Imogene Remus - the heartbroken wife, you guessed right - had. And by the time Mr. Remus got himself out of prison, three quarters of his considerable capital had vanished, so in order to stop the sale of the rest, he simply shot his bellowed wife right outside a taxi cab, in the middle of dozens of witnesses. Naturally, he was arrested and sent to a respectable court of law; he defended himself and the jury concluded that the man could not be held accountable for reason of insanity. So he wasn't sent to prison but the madhouse; however, he appealed and the insanity verdict was overturned yet, he couldn't be tried twice for murder. Mr. George Remus had lost most of his fortune yet what was left was still good money; he left the court as a respectable citizen, satisfied that justice was finally made. |
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