You’d Think They’d Know Better, But These Politicians Committed The Wildest Crimes Of The 20th Century

Jerome Epstein Was Exposed As An Oil Pirate

Observer via Google

Jerome Epstein was a Republican member of the New Jersey Senate from 1972 to 1974. In 1977, Epstein was sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted of pirating oil with an estimated worth of $4 million. According to the Observer in what was apparently a “systematic series of thefts that began in 1968,” Epstein — whose family owned fuel companies and gas stations — rented a barge, recruited a crew, and stole 12 million gallons of oil from Exxon tanks. Epstein got away with it at first by rigging the gauges on the barge to make it look like he only siphoned 2,000 gallons of oil as opposed to 4,000.

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