8.
Joseph Kennedy
Number 8 is a character that is pretty hard to believe that he maintained a life of crime, but the facts are telling us different.
Joseph Kennedy, the father of president John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy, made the list of the most successful gangsters of all time due to his day in the liquor business.
It is a fact that the Prohibition affected Joseph Kennedy’s business and with a fortune standing to disappear, he did something to change that.
After inheriting the whiskey-importing business from his father, he managed to raise his first million by the age of thirty when times got tough he got into the business of bootlegging with some gangsters from New York and Chicago.
He made a fortune and maintained his ties with the crime world, using them to influence the political world and fixing elections.
Even though his sons were pretty much the perfect cover for him, representing the United States at the highest level, he managed to raise $300 million from his ties to the mod world.
