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Cabin on Hungry Jack Lake rich with history of former mobster, bootlegger

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Liquor from Tommy Banks remains at the Hungry Jack Lake cabin. All photos by Joe Friedrichs
Liquor from Tommy Banks remains at the Hungry Jack Lake cabin. All photos by Joe Friedrichs
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A cabin on the shores of Hungry Jack Lake was once owned by a notorious Minnesota mobster and bootlegger.

WTIP’s Joe Friedrichs has this report on the Tommy Banks cabin up the Gunflint Trail. 
 

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