Busted! 5 years in federal prison for coloring margarine in 1911
Joseph Wirth (above), his brother Toney Wirth, and Patrick Raidy were each fined $5,000 and sentenced to five-year terms in Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas in 1911 for coloring margarine in violation of the Oleomargarine Act of 1886. The U.S. Congress passed the Oleomargarine Act to protect the butter industry by taxing margarine and banning …
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