Roger Touhy
Irish-American mob boss and bootlegger
Died when: 61 years 89 days (734 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
He is best remembered for having been framed for the 1933 faked kidnapping of gangster John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor Sr.
Despite numerous appeals and at least one court ruling freeing him, Touhy spent 26 years in prison.Touhy was released in November 1959, and murdered by the Chicago Outfit less than a month later.
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