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Kidnap Plot by Hank Fine and the Purple Gang
In the 1930s Hank Fine at 19 joined the Purple Gang in a planned kidnapping of Max Karns a major alcohol dealer with illicit interests Karns would be held for a ransom between 50000 and 100000 The gang met at Sally Isaacs apartment where Karns supposedly lived with a prostitute She fingered them and police called it a conspiracy Newspaper reports sensationalized the youths misdeeds
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