ABSTRACT
When Isidor Einstein walked into the New York Prohibition Agency and asked for a job, the supervisor thought Izzy was joking. Izzy didn’t look anything like a federal agent. He was short, fat, and middle-aged. One of Izzy’s first busts happened just as he suspected— because he didn’t look anything like the big, muscled federal agents. He walked into a speakeasy wearing wrinkled pants and a rumpled shirt. He walked right up to the bartender and asked for a pint of whiskey. The bartender Izzy and Moe would do anything to arrest the bootleggers and illegal whiskey sellers. He took his friend Moe Smith in to meet the hiring agent. Moe was a little taller than Izzy, but he was even fatter. He looked about as much like a federal agent as Izzy. Moe was hired. For the next 5 years, Izzy and Moe were an amazing team of revenue detectives.
