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Why Did Eliot Ness And His Men Risk So Much Just To Get Al Capone

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Now why did Eliot Ness and his men risk so much just to get Al capone? Eliot Ness was a very successful guy in his career. He worked as an investigator for the Retail Credit Company, agent in the Chicago branch of the U.S. Treasury department and then transferred to the Justice Department to work for the Prohibition Bureau. That is where he got assigned to bring down Capone. When Al Capone tried to buy him and his men off the case, he let the press know they will be not be bought. That is when the press released an article calling Ness and the other agents “The Untouchables.” From what I have read it states “Seeing the press as an ally, Ness made a habit of calling the media for each raid his crew made on Capone's breweries. (Biography.com
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