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The Triaca Company was a brewery and distributor located in Baltimore, Maryland.
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History
The Triaca Company was founded in 1882 by Marcello Triaca on 98 Light Street and Camden avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Triaca gained some national notoriety in 1884 for losing $5,600 to a fellow Italian in an elaborate swindle involving money handling.
With prohibition pending, all distributors were given until January 16, 1920 to sell or export their stocks out of the country. In December 1919, Triaca company president Charles Vincenti shipped thirty six thousand cases and twelve thousand barrels of whiskey to Bimini. Vincenti was taken by force in boat raid by revenue agents and taken back to Baltimore for trial before the British Colonial Government demand his return for capture in their territorial waters. In 1920, Whiskey was distributed to cooperative households throughout the Baltimore area like the A.T. Caroza Ingleside Mansion in Catonsville. Carozza, a road contractor bought a steamship from the Navy and sued the government to return his 500 case whisky gift from Vincetti. After agents seized cases of Whiskey, a trial against the owners, drivers, salesmen, and holders of the Whisky in 1922. The trial became part of the Triaca Conspiracy, also known as the "Million Dollar Whiskey Conspiracy".