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Roger Touhy (September 18 1898 – December 16 1959) was an Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago Illinois. He is best remembered for having been framed for the 1933 faked kidnapping of gangster John Jake the Barber Factor a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor Sr. Despite numerous appeals and at least one court ruling freeing him Touhy spent 26 years in prison. Touhy was released in November 1959.
