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Jukebox empire : the mob and the dark side of the American dream / David Rabinovitch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]Description: xx, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538172599
  • 1538172593
Subject(s): Summary: "From the biggest bank robbery in the world to the largest money laundering scheme in history, Jukebox Empire follows the many twists and turns in one man's pursuit of the American dream"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 364.1552 R116 Available 33111011195720
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David Rabinovitch's investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called "the biggest bank robbery in the world."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From the biggest bank robbery in the world to the largest money laundering scheme in history, Jukebox Empire follows the many twists and turns in one man's pursuit of the American dream"-- Provided by publisher.

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