Jeff Cohen
Appearances
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Yeah, as crazy as that sounds, it is actually true that most of the time drugs was not their business. For a variety of reasons, I guess. I think it was more difficult for them to control, I think is one of the elements that was typically a problem. You had large amounts of money moving between people that they couldn't necessarily keep their fingers on.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
It was also a real area of heat back, especially in the 80s, when you had sort of the war on drugs. It just was not a clean business for them. It wasn't something that they could run tightly, make sure stayed under the radar. They could get reliable money out of it. It was none of those things. It could go sideways in a minute. You had major federal heat on it all the time.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
And it was just more trouble than it was worth, I think, a lot of times for them, even though it was big, big money. But whorehouses, chop shops, any kind of illegal business that's along that line definitely would have been within the outfits purview at that time. Whorehouses especially, anything related to sex and vice, they typically had a piece of it across the Chicago area.