616. Blum, Dunbar smuggled opium by the shipload

The story of William Dunbar, Nat Blum, and the Merchants Steamship Company is one of the weirdest. Most drug smugglers this incompetent don't operate at this kind of scale -- you can't get big enough to have a fleet of steamers by being this dumb.

But most successful middle-aged businessmen don't turn to crime as a side hustle either ... or adopt an orphan boy who grows up to help start World War II either.