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Become wealthy or perish in the attempt

 1915          'So he's in there?' Dan Foley asked the young man. 'Yup, big fella like you said, sitting at the end of the bar. He was talking to the old guy behind the bar, real loud the big one.' The young man replied.                Dan took out his wallet, pulled out a 5 and handed it to the young man, 'Thanks kid.' He said. 'Sure thing.' The kid replied, putting the bill in his pocket before walking off into the night. Dan Foley was on the porch of his girlfriends apartment building, which was across the street from the small hole in the wall bar he was watching where a man inside, Bill Murphy, owed him 500 dollars.          It was almost 2 in the morning, in the Flats section of Warner, near the bridge with Franklin. The bar in question, called Jim's, was down an alley, and down an additional flight of stairs. There was no other way in or out. According to Foley intelligence, which ...

A dirty, Mercenary Spirit pervades the whole

 1927               'So right now Angelo has us all keeping a low profile, conduct business as best we can until we get some intel about where to strike.' Henry Cohen explained to Ginny. They were on the top floor in the presidential suite of the Warner Mansion Hotel. Ginny said some boyfriend of hers had paid for the suite, so she might as well use it right?           They had met over at Chapman's where she told him she might have some information that could help them. At this stage they need all the help they could get. Eli and Jake Kaufman, with the help of a bootlegger out of Detroit known as 'Big Red,' had killed 40 of Dan Foley's men in their bid to take  control of Warner's rackets.           Foley's men had killed twice that number, many of them by Angelo Berardi personally. Still the  war continued with the most recent casualty being the boss, Dan Foley himself sh...