Jonathan Eig

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American History Tellers · St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3 · 18 Feb 2026 podcast

Well, one of the great things about accountants is that they love the books and they'll dig through books and paperwork and receipts until their eyes go bleary.

And Frank Wilson, along with some of the other people on his team, were just relentless.

And there was a bust of a brothel or a casino.

in the suburb of Chicago.

And during that bust, a bunch of books were seized.

And late one night, going through file cabinets, just looking for something he might have missed, Frank Wilson came across this ledger from the casino that had been busted earlier.

And in that ledger, he found mention of payments being made to Al.

And that was it.

That was really the only hard evidence they had showing money flowing to Al Capone.

But Frank Wilson wasn't just an accountant.

He actually, in this case, got to do a little bit more traditional police work because they needed to know whether this Al mentioned in the ledger was actually Al Capone.

So Wilson arrested the bookkeeper at the ship, this bar that had been busted where they found the ledger.

And the guy wouldn't talk, you know, as everybody knows in the underworld, you know, you don't talk or you're going to face problems with the big guy.

But Wilson put this guy in a cell far away from home and just sweated him out until finally the guy agreed to start talking and to cooperate as a witness.

And they made a deal where they would protect his identity.

And finally, that was some of the key evidence that led to the indictment of Capone.

It was a close call, and George Johnson was under a lot of pressure.

He was under heat from Washington.

He had two days before the statute of limitations would expire on those tax evasion charges.

So he was able to get an indictment on one count for just one year of unpaid taxes, and he was able to squeeze that in

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