Crime Writers of Canada’s Podcast Interview by Erik D’Souza
Interview with Erik D’Souza: Jukebox Empire by David Rabinovitch is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid
An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money-laundering scheme in history.
By David Rabinovitch
Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro’s revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. Rabin’s trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob’s growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David Rabinovitch’s investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”
With a background in investigative journalism, David Rabinovitch unearthed trial transcripts and classified documents to reveal the secrets of the Mob’s involvement with jukeboxes and the largest money laundering scheme in history. An EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini Award-winning film maker, he has filmed on five continents and screened his work for a committee of Congress. Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream is his first book.
EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini Award-winning film maker
Politics of Poison
Interview with Erik D’Souza: Jukebox Empire by David Rabinovitch is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid
‘Jukebox Empire’ at Book Passage
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Jukebox Empire is nominated as a finalist for The Brass Knuckles Award Best Nonfiction Crime Book Award; 2024 Awards of Excellence from Crime Writers of