Izzy and Moe operated between 1920 and 1925 in New York. In 1925 they were both sacked. They were known for using disguises and made 4,392 arrests, of which 95% ended in convictions.
Izzy Einstein was married to Esther Einstein and they had four sons, Joseph, Charles, Edward and Albert.
Izzy (Isadore) Einstein (1880–1938) and Moe Smith (died 1961) were American policemen during the first years of the alcoholprohibition era (1920–1925).
Izzy once tossed his agent's badge on the bar of a Bowery saloon and — this fat, unkempt individual — asked for a pint of whisky for "a deserving prohibition agent." The bartender sold it to him, thinking him a great wit.
Izzy and Moe, rotund and cheerful men, made life so miserable for the prohibition-law violaters, that waiters, bartenders and speakeasy proprietors feared to sell liquor to anyone if a "rumor" circulated that "they" were in the area.
"Izzy and Moe belong on the vaudeville stage." [Cited by by Joan Rapczynski Florence Zywocinski in Prohibition As A Reform.
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