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The great numbers phone book caper of 1935

December 9, 2025 / David Rotenstein / Leave a comment

In December 1935, racketeers cooked up an audacious scheme to use a Depression-era federal work program to hire bookies to take bets in Covington, Kentucky. Did they get away with it?

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