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  2. Eliot Ness - Wikipedia

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    Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility.

  3. Untouchables (law enforcement) - Wikipedia

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    Harney oversaw the operations of Eliot Ness and the other Untouchables and Dry Agents at Treasury out of the Chicago Prohibition Office. [4] Operating out of Room 308 of the Transportation Building at 608 S. Dearborn Street, in what is now Chicago's Printer's Row neighborhood, the Untouchables planned their activities to stop Capone. [5]

  4. Bureau of Prohibition - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the United States federal law enforcement agency with the responsibility of investigating the possession, distribution, consumption, and trafficking of alcohol and alcoholic beverages in the United States of America during the Prohibition era. [1]

  5. Untouchable - Wikipedia

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    The Untouchables, video game based on the 1987 film; Untouchable, a Japanese manzai comedy duo and winners of the 2004 M-1 Grand Prix; unTouchable, a webtoon by massstar; DGUSA Untouchable, a wrestling pay-per-view event; Untouchables, a fictional organization in comic books, see list of DC Comics teams and organizations

  6. Secret Six (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Of the Secret Six, in his book, The Untouchables, Eliot Ness says this, "These six men were gambling with their lives, unarmed, to accomplish what three thousand police and three hundred prohibition agents had failed miserably to accomplish: The liquidation of a criminal combine which paid off in dollars to the greedy and death to the too ...

  7. Bugs Moran - Wikipedia

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    Prohibition was established in 1920 with the enactment of the 18th Amendment, which banned the distribution of alcoholic beverages, resulting in bootlegging.Among the involved gangs were Dean O'Banion and his mostly Irish group, including Bugs Moran, who became known as the North Side Gang and Al Capone as the leader of the Italian mob on the South Side.

  8. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Rick Pitino's 'Untouchable' 1996 ... - AOL

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    Deemed "The Untouchables," the team only lost two games all season en route to winning the national title, the first for coach Rick Pitino. Fittingly, the majority of players on that team went on ...

  9. Frank Nitti - Wikipedia

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    Still, as he rose in the organization, Nitti's business instinct dictated that he must personally avoid the "dirty work" for which hitmen were paid. [citation needed] Frank and Rose divorced in 1928, and shortly thereafter, he married Anna Ronga, daughter of a mob doctor and former neighbor of the Nittis in the 1920s. [1]