Friday, February 29, 2008

IRS releases records from Capone tax case


The Internal Revenue Service is granting access to documents related to the successful prosecution of Chicago's Prohibition Era ganglord Al Capone, according to an announcement on the IRS.gov website.
Records were released after a Freedom of Information request for a copy of Special Agent Frank Wilson's report to Elmer Irey triggered a review of the Capone case files. IRS officials reviewed the documents for compliance with confidentiality requirements and decided that the reports could be made available to the public "principally because Capone never filed a tax return."
The website includes five documents:

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Tom has managed the MobNews blog since spring 2006 (first on Bloglines and then here on Blogger). On the web, he also publishes the American Mafia history website (www.onewal.com) and the CagedWolves: History of the Morello Mob website (www.cagedwolves.com), moderates a Yahoo discussion group on Mafia topics and edits organized crime and crime books and authors categories for the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org). He is coauthor of the book, "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia." He has written and co-written articles on organized crime for the On the Spot Journal.
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