Originally Posted by Giacalone
Great read. Capone's Irish foes may have hogged the limelight, but his Irish associates were the silent powerhouses, navigating beneath notice


Big Tim Murphy and Cornelius Shea (the founding president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters) were also notorious.

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Informal portrait of (left to right) Tim Murphy, Fred Mader, John Miller, and Cornelius P. Shea sitting in a courtroom in Chicago, Illinois, during a trial in 1922.

"The king is dead, long live the king!"