Throughout the summer of 1926, the Coast Guard stations on Long Beach Island were the location of a series of secret federal trials. Members of the Coast Guard were accused of taking bribes to allow rum runners to land cargoes of liquor on the beaches, in violation of the prohibition enforcement law known as the Volstead Act.
Word of the trials first leaked to the public in a special Asbury Park Press report.
“BEACH HAVEN, Aug. 17. – United States coast guard headquarters at Washington last night let down the bars of secrecy…
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