One of the famous crime masterminds, Al Capone dodged all other laws for crimes he had committed only to be humbled by tax law. In the 1920’s Al Capone virtually controlled all the gambling, prostitution, liquor and extortion rackets in Chicago USA. According to Forbes magazine he made vast amounts of money from these ventures estimated at 100 Million dollars. Al Capone exclusively dealt in cash with no bank account to his name. In criminal proceedings against him, no one was willing to testify against him. For all the crime he had committed no admissible evidence was available to pin him down. Tax law came in handy to eliminate the criminal architect
Despite his public and extravagant lifestyle, Capone never filed a federal income tax return, claiming that he had no taxable income. On the fateful day June 5, 1931 Al-Capone was indicted on 22 counts of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. (Clark 2008).