When the Rackets Reigned
Taggert, Ed![When the Rackets Reigned](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/382/3828437/CHSBZCOP033828437.jpg)
At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. Af...