George Remus from the start was a guy who made friends quickly was intelligent, and full of talent. When he became a lawyer his clients were more often then not bootleggers and he briefly met Al Capone. His defense of murder-charged clients and resulting death sentences made him against capital punishment.
George Remus was friends with his associated. Those who helped run his drugstores that he opened and closed after a certain amount of his whiskey was sold. He eventually employed 3,000 people: drivers,bodyguards, shippers, accountants... eventually even the Chicago Police Department. His associated often were in contact with gangster bootleggers. Violence was not at all uncommon later on.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1864521_1864524_1864554,00.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
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