[2] In 1933, McClure was found guilty in federal court and sentenced to 18 months in prison for vice and rum-running but his conviction was overturned on appeal.

[5] McClure hand picked candidates for county, city council, mayoral and school board elections.

McClure controlled local and county level officials dependent on Chester's liquor licensing and saloon trade.

[8] The prosecution charged that McClure received protection money and created weekly lists of speakeasies that would be permitted to operate and those that did not pay up and were to be closed.

Between the summer in 1929 and January 1931, one Philadelphia bootlegging gang paid McClure between $65,000 and $70,000 for liquor brought through the Chester port.

McClure lost his reelection bid for Pennsylvania Senate in 1936 to Weldon Brinton Heyburn[1] due to public outcry over his protected status and ability to avoid imprisonment.

[12] Republican party membership was a prerequisite to employment at the Sun shipyard and president J. Howard Pew would call "mandatory meetings" for machine-sponsored political rallies.

[11] In 1941, McClure was indicted for conspiracy to gain a $250,000 profit from the sale of the Chester Water Works to a private buyer.