Although they were supposed to be upholding the law, during Prohibition both the House and the Senate had their very own bootlegger, George L. Cassiday, keeping them supplied with whiskey and other spirits.
The problem wasn’t finding customers, Cassiday wrote in The Washington Post in 1930. It was meeting the demand. Clients got tired of waiting when he could bring in only as much as he could carry hidden in his coat.
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