[Olog-hai]

You are right as far as the BLS inflation calculator is concerned; $100K in 1931 dollars works out to $1,557,473.68 in today’s dollars, and Sharpton’s bill is about double.

[catfish1957]

And if you count the deaths (mafia vs. riot incitement), the body counts probably aren’t too far off either.

[marron]

You are right as far as the BLS inflation calculator is concerned; $100K in 1931 dollars works out to $1,557,473.68 in today’s dollars, and Sharpton’s bill is about double.

With Obama as president, Capone would have been tap-dancing in Ferguson Missouri rather than serving time in Sing Sing. Or Sandford Florida. Or where ever the regime needed muscle.