Smugglers & Bootleggers

Everybody has to make a living, and sometimes, that living is illegal. These gutsy women survived on grit and punishable goods.

Amy covers Marm Mandelbaum, a criminal "fencer" to many of the street gangs and criminals of New York's underworld. Shelby talks about Gertrude Lythgoe, one of the most prominent female rum-runners, or bootleggers, in the 1920s.