Well, I lived in Detroit and I heard that Joe was importing booze from Canada, which is only across the
but this does not mean necessarily that he was bootlegging. only that he was not willed to pay the gang [/quote]
Joseph Kennedy imported booze from Canada through Detroit, which was illegal, regardless of how you put it, if you got caught you were labeled a bootlegger. But it's not just that, it's almost public record now that he sold that booze through Italians who were connected to various Crime Families all over America, the Detroit Families being one of them. He also had deals set up with Frank Costello in NY.
