Since it was common knowledge that Moran was hijacking Capone's Detroit-based liquor shipments, police focused their attention on the Purple Gang.
A second reason Yale was allegedly killed was because Capone found out that Yale was stealing Capone's liquor shipments and then selling them back to him.
The Supreme Court added a further decision upholding the law in its next term in a case involving a North Carolina statute requiring railroads to maintain records of liquor shipments and recipients.
On February 13, 1929, seven North Side gunmen waiting for the liquor shipment were instead killed by Capone gunmen at that warehouse.
Member Ralph Sheldon formed his own group and began hijacking rival liquor shipments.
Nucky makes a deal with mobsters Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Big Jim Colosimo, and Johnny Torrio to let them purchase his seaborne liquor shipments exclusively.
Dalton's mentor, legendary but aging cooler Wade Garrett (Sam Elliott), arrives in town after a disconcerting phone call from Dalton and helps him defend a liquor shipment from Wesley's thugs.
It is thought that Masseria ordered Catena's murder out of suspicion that he was hijacking Masseria's liquor shipments.
Mal was the guy who received the liquor shipments in New York.
The next morning, after Carl finds his liquor shipment destroyed, Lily accuses Elam and Psalms of destroying it, based on the train engineer's (Chris Ippolito) description of two black men.