Randa Abdelfattah and Ramteen Arablui

This small band of elite financial investigators just took down one kingpin after another.

And they got so good at it that the media called them the giant killers.

In between chasing down kingpins, Elmer and his men also managed to help the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh solve the kidnapping and killing of his one-year-old son by tracing the ransom money.

Everyone in America had been following the kidnapping.

And now, a lot more people knew Elmer Irie.

And they loved him.

The public viewed Elmer as Uncle Elmer.

He's this unassuming, church-going, all-American family man that had this immense courage and competence to take down these organized crime figures.

And he did it in such a fair way, you know, he became the brand.

The brand of the IRS.

And with life getting harder every day, the public was starting to wonder if maybe Capone had been right about something.

Why don't they go after all those bankers?

Weren't they just gangsters by a different, supposedly more legit name?

Some papers even started calling them banksters.

And so in the early 1930s, a lot of politicians are looking hard at that to try to figure out what role did finance and did the Wall Street bankers play in causing this depression?

Coming up, the banksters are put in a hot seat.

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It's Tuesday, May 23rd, 1933, about four years after the stock market crash.

Unemployment is at 25%.