If the mob could be said to have anything resembling a golden age, it was in the 1930s, when Prohibition rendered bootlegging and various other vices very profitable. But all of that criminal activity—and associated murder—made having fingerprints and recognizable faces very inconvenient.
This led to a brief uptick in a very unusual occupation: plastic surgeon for the mob.
When the Mob Turned to Plastic Surgeons to Erase Their Fingerprints
