The Purple Gang was a Jewish criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers based in Detroit, Michigan, during the Prohibition era. Founded in the 1910s, it became Detroit's dominant criminal gang through bootlegging, armed robbery, and extortion. Excessive violence and infighting led to its collapse in the 1930s.
CRIMENET has extracted 30 linkages for this organization, including 23 cooperative ties across 5 organizations, 6 conflicts across 3 organizations, 1 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
They also smuggled liquor in from Canada.