Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America's Criminal Elite

by Robert G. Folsom

Book Overview

As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't and Eliot Ness couldn't. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution of the ruthless, murderous bosses who ruled American cities without fear of the law. Irey's takedown of Al Capone is still the landmark law enforcement achievement in U.S. history. Those whom Irey and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597974889
• ISBN13: 9781597974882
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"