Prohibition Agents

Newspapers of the day referred to him as the Incomparable Izzy, Honest Izzy, and America’s Premier Hooch Hound. Izzy referred to his successful operations as the “Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping.”

Isidor “Izzy” Einstein (1880–1938) and Moe W. Smith (1887–1960) were United States federal police officers, agents of the U.S. Prohibition Unit, who achieved the most arrests and convictions during the first years of the alcohol prohibition era (1920–1925).

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