William McCoy (rum runner)
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title:
William McCoy (rum runner)
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William Frederick "Bill" McCoy, was an American sea captain and rum-runner during the Prohibition in the United States. In pursuing the trade of smuggling alcohol from the Bahamas to the Eastern Seaboard, Capt. McCoy, found a role model in John Hancock of pre-revolutionary Boston and considered himself an "honest lawbreaker." McCoy took pride in the fact that he never paid a cent to organized crime, politicians, or law enforcement for protection. Unlike many operations that illegally produced an
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American bootlegger and captain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(rum_runner)
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2024-04-02T20:15:08Z
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