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The Untouchables (1959 – 1963)

1959 • 4 seasons • Documentary • TV-PG
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Season 2

The Untouchables · S2E27 — Stranglehold

May 4, 1961 · 60 min

Synopsis

New York, 1933. The grip of racketeers had spread like a stain across the nation’s commerce. The Fulton Fish Market, a vital artery supplying the East Coast with seafood as far west as the Mississippi, handled seven hundred million pounds of fish annually, a business worth two hundred million dollars. When Captain Joe McGonigle, owner of the fishing vessel *Margie Mac*, refused to pay protection, two of Frank Mercouris’ men, Lenny Shore and Swede Kelso, drowned his deck hand. The incident made t