The Legs Diamond Legacy

Some say notorious prohibition era gangster John T. "Legs" Diamond got his nickname from his ability to outrun trouble. But trouble did eventually catch up with him in 1931, when he was gunned down in a boarding house in Albany. But for all his notoriety – all the movies and popular culture surrounding him, he had very little in the way of a paper trail...until recently. Times Union reporter Ken Crowe obtained a stash of documents that time forgot in the Rensselaer County Clerk’s Office, and they reveal some interesting tidbits about the bootlegger’s final escapades upstate. Also on this episode, reporter Wendy Liberatore talks about the city of Saratoga Springs' reckoning with racial justice, and Times Union Editor Casey Seiler has the top headlines. *Note, this episode contains the use of explicit language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices