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Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and Cleveland’s Torso Murderer

Criminal

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The Prohibition Team and the Trial of Al Capone

Ness understood his role as part of a larger effort to bring down Capone. In June 1931, Al Capone was charged with 23 counts of income tax evasion. A week after that, he was charged with prohibition violations. Ness describes it as 5,000 violations of the liquor law.

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