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tiburon
24 February 2014
Re: PepingBonuan – An accountant did it
With an eye for the truth, I would have to do some filtering on what PepingBonuan wrote, which is high in rhetoric but low on facts.
THE 18TH AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION . . .
This correction in the US Constitution, was ratified on January 16, 1919 and enacted on May 17, 1920, by the majority of the states except Connecticut and Rhode Island. Its major purpose, was the prohibition of all alcoholic beverages; the transport, sale and production of alcohol were declared illegal.
THE VOLSTEAD ACT . . .
A separate congressional legislation to enforce the 18th, in defining what’s intoxicating liquors prohibited in the amendment e.g., for religious and medical purposes.
THE US TREASURY AGENTS . . .
To enforce the law in Chicago, to curb the criminal distribution of alcohol, special agents of the Treasury … not the FBI … were unleashed to do battle with Al Capone, headed by Eliot Ness (portrayed by Kevin Costner not Sean Connery in the Untouchables).
THE TEFLON DON . . .
With the might and power of the Federal government, it came to the point the Feds became weak and insignificant in proving the illegalities of liquor distribution and murder, which nothing could be pinned on Al Capone.
With the judicial system, the police, the politicians in his pocket, he was on his merry way, undaunted unbothered by Federal agents breathing down his neck, making $1 million bocquo money a month in 1930′s standard.
But nothing can be done even the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) couldn’t be relied upon at this time.
THE PROSECUTION OF SCARFACE AL . . .
On August 1927, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, that a bootlegger had to pay taxes on his … bootlegging … activities. With such ruling, it gives teeth to a toothless hound dog, now ready to take a bite out of Al … the Special Intelligence Unit of the IRS under Elmer Irey, was tasked to go after the man himself.
“No evidence no crime.” ___ Thus the predicament the IRS had on Al, where all his transactions were done with cash. Not until he built a mansion in Palm Island, Florida – although made with crispy federal notes, the IRS proved the tangible value of the house, was more than what he got in his wallet.
He was indicted for income tax evasion for not declaring income tax in the years; 1925; 1926; 1927 and 1928 – and got convicted, served time and died of syphilis.
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