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Eliot Ness and his Untouchables were agents of what specialized Treasury Dept. unit?

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The Untouchables were a special unit created by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon to take down Al Capone on 2 fronts:

The first front was a special unit of criminal investigators organized by the IRS to examine Capone's bank and ledger records to find anything that can be used to arrest him for tax evasion.

The second front was organized by the Bureau of Prohibition, which was part of the Department of Justice, to take down Capone's beer and liquor empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untouchables_(law_enforcement)
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