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Efforts to curb the mobsters were infrequent, uncoordinated, and often delegated to prosecutors and teams of investigators working in ignorance of each other's efforts and almost always within their jurisdictional limits. The federal government lacked the means and the inclination to coordinate or to give guidance to these investigations, and local governments usually were without the resources to be effective against the mobs and lacked the will, given the existence of links between the politicians and the mobsters, to try. Still there were moments of high drama in the 1930s: Thomas E. Dewey's investigation of the rackets in the East caused considerable hardship for the top mobsters, including Dutch Schultz (who was murdered by "Lucky" Luciano's triggermen for his plan to kill Dewey), "Waxey" Gordon, and "Lucky" Luciano, who was sent to prison. Federal probes of political machines in Boston and Kansas City...
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