IRS Criminal Investigation: A unit that targets financial crimes in Utah
Posted on AllSides May 13th, 2015
The Internal Revenue Service's intelligence unit honed its reputation by providing the evidence to convict Public Enemy No. 1 Al Capone of tax evasion in 1931.
Long after the Chicago gangster went to prison and almost a century after the unit's founding, the little-known division — now called IRS Criminal Investigation, or IRS C.I. — is still going strong. Other high-profile defendants convicted of tax evasion in the years since Capone include Vice President Spiro Agnew, hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, baseball star Pete Rose and televangelist Ji
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