Atlantic City’s Alcohol Beverage Control chairman owns home once used for illegal liquor delivery
Tom Forkin, chairman of the Atlantic City Alcohol Beverage Control Board, purchased a home two years ago known as the old rum runner house in the Bungalow Park neighborhood.
Forkin wanted to live in the home he now owns for years, but one of his neighbors, John Devlin Sr., 82, a lifelong resort resident, knows more about the history of his house than he does.
During the Prohibition era of the 1920s, illegal alcohol used to be delivered to the dock underneath Forkin’s house. Gangster Al Capone and the resort’s political boss Enoch Lewis “Nucky” Johnson used to meet up Forkin’s house, Devlin said.
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