j edgar hoover was blackmailed by ed murphy. ed murphy did use the stonewall. the mafia honors had an apartment on the second floor. they use the waiters who were mostly straight. so, when the police investigated, it centered around the stonewall. what happened is only pine and his copartner, this was supposed to be a secret. only they knew about that part of the raid. even their men didn't know they were rating to bust a blackmail ring. so, that was the reason for the raid. >> that is fascinating. the different layers behind it. >> but they did the same thing that they always did. they arrested the kids were in there and they were busting a blackmail ring. they were blackmailing wall street guys. taking their pictures and threatening them saying that we are going to show to to your wife or your boss. in there with a good motive. it may have been the only gay with a goodhistory motive. all the rest of them were just because it was gay people in the bar or because the mob wasn't paying off. one of the things we are not discussing here, all the problems you got i

edgar hoover was blackmailed by ed murphy. ed murphy did use the stonewall. the mafia honors had an apartment on the second floor. they ran a prostitution ring and used the waiters who were mostly straight to gather information from the patrons of the stonewall club. so, when the police investigated, it seemed the blackmail ring was centered around stonewall. pine was ordered to shut it down. what happened is only pine and his copartner, this was supposed to be a secret, so only they knew about that part of the raid. even their men and women from the morals squad did not know iding to bust a blackmail ring. so, that was the reason for the raid. >> that is fascinating. the different layers behind it. >> but they did the same thing that they always did. they arrested the kids that were in there and they were busting a blackmail ring or they were blackmailing wall street guys. threatening them, taking their pictures, and saying we will show them to your wife or your boss or whatever. so they went in with an actual motive. it may have been the only gay bar bust i

one of the managers of the criminal,was a career ed murphy, a gay man, who was arrested in the mid-1960's for running operation blackmailing homosexuals murphy found the a prostitution ring. he used an office above the late 1960's toe run a prostitution ring. these stonewall's leaders also customers,nformation especially those with more lucrative careers. when the new york police department received a query them , -- from interpol, and they investigated and determined that it was stolen by a wall street employee who was blackmailed because of his homosexuality. further investigation showed stonewall as the likely origin of the blackmailing operation. at a time of extensive investigation into police corruption in new york city, seymour pine, who had a wastation to be honest, transferred against his objections to be the head of the public morals squad. he was summoned by his captain and order to put the stonewall out of business because of its connection with the mafia operation. after routine raids on the a raidll, pine organized , 1969,morning of june 28 book to the real reason for the