Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was a major U.S. newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1936. Annenberg began his career as a rough-hewn Chicago newspaper salesman for the Hearst Corporation. He eventually built a fortune and a successful publishing company called Triangle Publications, Inc. Moe's fortunes waned when, during the Roosevelt administration (to which his papers had been less than kind), he was indicted, like Capone, for tax evasion and, after pleading guilty, was sentenced to three years. His health failed during that time. In 1942, shortly after his release from prison, Annenberg died at age 65. He and his wife, Sarah, were the parents of the publisher and philanthropist, Walter Annenberg, who inherited his father's business eventually founding the Annenberg Foundation.
Further reading
- Cooney, John E. The Annenbergs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
- Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
- Johnson, Curt and R. Craig Sautter. The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8
- Reppetto, Thomas A. American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-8050-7798-7
- Schatzberg, Rufus, Robert J.Kelly and Ko-lin Chin, ed. Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0-313-28366-4
- Winter-Berger, Robert N. The Washington Pay-Off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government. New York: Dell Publishing, 1972.
