Word: donough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers $180,000; total take...
...retired police sergeant. His two sons, Pete and Thomas, tended bar. The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar. When they learned that the lawyers were charging their clients for these bonds, they began charging too. After old man Mc Donough died, Pete ripped out the bar, dealt solely in bail bonds, soon became a millionaire...