Cedric Chin on Twitter: "The thought that recurs the most whenever I read history, even recent history like this, is “wow they weren’t kidding when they said the past is a foreign land, huh”" / Twitter

Ingenious.

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1/ The Mafia made $80-100M/year after they muscled in on a tax theft scheme called “gasoline bootlegging” pioneered by Brooklyn Jews in the 80s & 90s. It began with the predictable laziness of bureaucrats & their perennial quest for legibility. Here’s how it worked:

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