ng was later nicknamed The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Capone's men dressed as police officers and lined seven of OBanion and Morans gang members up across a garage wall. The gang offered no resistance because they thought it was a regular police routine. Instead Capone's men opened up over 1,000 rounds of machine gun fire slaughtering the gang members. Unfortunately for Capone, Bugs Moran was not present among the seven men who were killed. After Capone's failed attempt to knock off Moran, his operations became very sloppy. The man charged with gathering the evidence of Prohibition violations, also known as bootlegging, was Eliot Ness, who began to assemble a team of daring young agents like himself. Elmer Irey of the IRS Special Intelligence Unit, who redoubled his ongoing efforts shortly after Hoovers mandate, led the biggest effort. This team of officials were known as the Untouchables, thus the movie. While there was doubt that Capone could be successfully prosecuted for Prohibition violations in Chicago, regardless of the weight of evidence, Mellon felt sure that with the Sullivan ruling the government could get Capone on tax evasion.Capones eventual downfall was caused by one of his own business agents who ran Capone's dog and horse race tracks. The man's name was Eddie O'Hare. OHare was working undercover under the IRS. He informed the IRS where books containing Capone's income could be taken. Capone had never paid any taxes and for this very reason he was brought up on charges of tax invasion in front of the federal court. Capone tried to bribe the federal government by offering them $400,000 to drop the case against him, but they rejected the offer. Capone was convicted and given the maximum sentence, which was a $50,000 fine, court costs of $30,000, and eleven years in jail. Initially, Al was a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta and quickly became its most famous prisoner. There were charges almost immediate...
