The Accountant Who Really Took Down Al Capone

On the first morning of Al Capone's 1931 tax trial, his men thought the jury was already bought. Then the judge made one quiet announcement. The movies say Eliot Ness took Capone down. He didn't. This is the real story: the murdered "hanging prosecutor," the comedian who told Capone's hitman no, the Supreme Court ruling that taxed crime money, a forgotten ledger in a box, the nervous cashier who testified, the mob lawyer secretly working for the government, and the judge who swapped the entire jury. 0:00 The Wrong Jury 0:42 The Hanging Prosecutor 1:20 Three Months Gone 1:59 The Comedian Who Said No 2:50 A Ruling Nobody Noticed 3:27 The Banquet 4:09 The President's Question 4:51 The Brother Goes First 5:21 The Ledger in the Box 5:55 The Cashier 6:28 The Man on the Inside 6:52 A Slap on the Wrist 7:34 Twelve Strangers 8:07 Eleven Years 8:48 The Price of Talking 9:27 The Man Who Got the Credit 10:15 The Last Fortune 10:50 Paperwork Images are AI-generated for illustration. Some details rely on contemporary reports and later accounts. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Spy Glass", "Night on the Docks - Sax", "Lightless Dawn" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Watch part one, The Real Al Capone Nobody Talks About:    • The Real Al Capone Nobody Talks About (Doc...   Subscribe to Untold Underworld for the untold stories of the American underworld. #alcapone #truecrime #mobhistory