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Our Multi-Talented Federal Prohibition Agents
On June 17, 1922, the New York Times reported on several raids by Federal prohibition agents. Upstate, agents conducted an undercover operation at the Nikko Inn in Harmon-on-Hudson.
The agents—William McKay, Peter Reager, and Leonard Gallante—posed as entertainers. When the inn's proprietor Charles Hase requested a performance, the undercover officer…