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The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America's Criminal Elite
Robert G. Folsom
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hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 372 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 704.
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 his branch brought to justice reads like a Who’s Who of mid-twentieth-century crime and crooked politics: Boss Tom Pendergast in Kansas City, the Huey Long gang ... Read more
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 his branch brought to justice reads like a Who’s Who of mid-twentieth-century crime and crooked politics: Boss Tom Pendergast in Kansas City, the Huey Long gang ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Potomac Books United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597974882
SKU
V9781597974882
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About Robert G. Folsom
Robert G. Folsom, the author of The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America’s Criminal Elite (2010), is a former reporter and editor with more than thirty years’ experience on daily newspapers and a freelance writer on intelligence, counterintelligence, and law enforcement. He served as the director of information services at Florida International University before returning to journalism. ... Read more
Reviews for The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America's Criminal Elite
“From Al Capone, to Lucky Luciano, to Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast and Hollywood’s racketeers, Robert Folsom chronicles America’s unholy mid-century ménage of politics, crime, and business—and the long federal effort to develop and use the one legal tactic that consistently brought down such kingpins. By focusing on the Treasury Department’s crack investigator Elmer Irey, he brings a moral center to ... Read more