Supports treating medicinal-whiskey privileges and bonded inventory as capital and administrative infrastructure that shaped who could profit under Prohibition.
This record deliberately excludes the later murder narrative and focuses on the whiskey-distribution system.
George Remus exploited the legal and logistical infrastructure of medicinal whiskey—distillery ownership, bonded stocks, warehouse documents, withdrawals, transport, and diversion—rather than simply operating an isolated illicit still. His empire demonstrates how Prohibition-era illegality could be built from control of legitimate inventories and paperwork.
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September29 fresh audit: sequential supplied text read1–249, all-page visual survey and selected enlarged details. This is a source-attributed paraphrase, not independent factual validation. Exclude speculative Gatsby identification,1923Pontiac claim and romantic moral framing.
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