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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 85882, member: 44"]Just stumbled on an interesting connection of Browne Vintners - Zwillman, the mobster - Joe P. Kennedy! Maybe Kennedy did import this bottle! It seems...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Browne Vintners Co. was one if not the largest liquor importing firm in the USA in the late 1930s with offices in Rockefeller Center.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Abner "Longie/Longy" Zwillman was a partner in the Browne-Vintners Co.</p><p><a href="http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Investigation_of_Organized_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce_v12_1000870905/635" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Investigation_of_Organized_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce_v12_1000870905/635" rel="nofollow">http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Investigation_of_Organized_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce_v12_1000870905/635</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=zwillman+interest+in+Browne+vintners&source=bl&ots=IJJ2phEz9S&sig=e0ivzh0lv4mb-cfV_6ct0Y9ZV20&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBWoVChMIzfCZ576-yAIVy6MeCh3yNwid#v=onepage&q=zwillman%20interest%20in%20Browne%20vintners&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=zwillman+interest+in+Browne+vintners&source=bl&ots=IJJ2phEz9S&sig=e0ivzh0lv4mb-cfV_6ct0Y9ZV20&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBWoVChMIzfCZ576-yAIVy6MeCh3yNwid#v=onepage&q=zwillman%20interest%20in%20Browne%20vintners&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=zwillman+interest+in+Browne+vintners&source=bl&ots=IJJ2phEz9S&sig=e0ivzh0lv4mb-cfV_6ct0Y9ZV20&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBWoVChMIzfCZ576-yAIVy6MeCh3yNwid#v=onepage&q=zwillman interest in Browne vintners&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>3. Longie Zwillman was one of the top mobsters along with Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Collier's" named Zwillman as one of the Big Six among the mobsters, the others being Louis Buchalter, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Jacob G. Shapiro and Luciano. Zwillman was protector of</p><p>Waxey Gordon's brewery syndicates operating during Prohibition in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York."</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Longie Zwillman bought a large liquor import business from Joe Kennedy!!!</p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedy-wealth/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedy-wealth/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedy-wealth/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"Joe Kennedy’s money may have had unsavory sources as well. He is rumored to have imported liquor during Prohibition, working with mobsters in that industry (he later sold his legitimate liquor importing business to a known mobster named Abner “Longy” Zwillman). Joe Kennedy never publicly revealed his wealth, but the New York Times estimated his net worth at $500,000,000 when he died in 1969."</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 85882, member: 44"]Just stumbled on an interesting connection of Browne Vintners - Zwillman, the mobster - Joe P. Kennedy! Maybe Kennedy did import this bottle! It seems... 1. Browne Vintners Co. was one if not the largest liquor importing firm in the USA in the late 1930s with offices in Rockefeller Center. 2. Abner "Longie/Longy" Zwillman was a partner in the Browne-Vintners Co. [URL]http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Investigation_of_Organized_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce_v12_1000870905/635[/URL] [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=zwillman+interest+in+Browne+vintners&source=bl&ots=IJJ2phEz9S&sig=e0ivzh0lv4mb-cfV_6ct0Y9ZV20&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBWoVChMIzfCZ576-yAIVy6MeCh3yNwid#v=onepage&q=zwillman%20interest%20in%20Browne%20vintners&f=false']https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=zwillman+interest+in+Browne+vintners&source=bl&ots=IJJ2phEz9S&sig=e0ivzh0lv4mb-cfV_6ct0Y9ZV20&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBWoVChMIzfCZ576-yAIVy6MeCh3yNwid#v=onepage&q=zwillman interest in Browne vintners&f=false[/URL] 3. Longie Zwillman was one of the top mobsters along with Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, etc. "Collier's" named Zwillman as one of the Big Six among the mobsters, the others being Louis Buchalter, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Jacob G. Shapiro and Luciano. Zwillman was protector of Waxey Gordon's brewery syndicates operating during Prohibition in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York." 4. Longie Zwillman bought a large liquor import business from Joe Kennedy!!! [URL]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedy-wealth/[/URL] "Joe Kennedy’s money may have had unsavory sources as well. He is rumored to have imported liquor during Prohibition, working with mobsters in that industry (he later sold his legitimate liquor importing business to a known mobster named Abner “Longy” Zwillman). Joe Kennedy never publicly revealed his wealth, but the New York Times estimated his net worth at $500,000,000 when he died in 1969." --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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