American gangster Al Capone with US Marshall Laubenheimar.
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American gangster Al Capone with US Marshall Laubenheimar.
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Gangsters, banksters, and politicians. At this time on the present, how the hunt for Al Capone helped flip the IRS into one of many U.S. authorities’s strongest instruments — and simplest weapons.
Visitors:
Joe Thorndike, historian for Tax Analysts and writer of Their Truthful Share: Taxing the Wealthy within the Age of FDR.
Paul Camacho, retired particular agent for the IRS Legal Investigation Division and member of the board of administrators on the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
Jason Scott Smith, historian at The College of New Mexico and writer of two books about FDR and the New Deal.
Lawrence Reed, president emeritus of The Basis for Financial Training.
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