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“Release the Onions!”: the Vincent Kosuga story

Ridiculous Crime

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Casuga's Onion Cartel Lawsuit Is Going Well

In 1956, Vincent Casuga made about $94 million off of onion futures. He called together an onion cartel and then betrayed those same men to bankrupt them. The Chicago mercantile exchange is against free trade so they file a lawsuit trying to block it. In 1959, the Supreme Court has to decide the onion futures case in a 1959. Can you guess which one? No. Give me another hand, not Nixon. I don't know.

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