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**Eliot Ness**

[|Eliot Ness' Biography]

Due to the fact that even politicians were breaking the laws of Prohibiton, US District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson had a difficult task when asked to create a team of trustworthy investigators. Ness' outspokenness impressed the DA, so he gave Ness the job of finding the right men to lead.



The main focus of the new team was to hit Al Capone in his wallet. If he lost all his sources of income, namely his illegal breweries, the whole criminal underground would suffer. However, this task would prove to be difficult, especially with Capone bribing the group. After one occasion, where Ness was bribed $2000 (and denied it), Ness began involving the media, who penned the name "The Untouchables."



After Capone was thrown in jail, Ness moved to Cleveland, Ohio to help clean up the crime problem there. Over the years he worked there, Ness started revealing the crooked policemen in the force, putting fifteen officials to trial and forcing 200 other cops to resign.



Ness' main impact in Cleveland was the institution of traffic laws, a traffic court, and more drunk driving consequences. However, two events overshadowed Ness' great achievements. The first was a car accident where Ness was drunk. The second took place during the Torso Murderer's reign of terror. Eliot, suspecting that the murderer was hiding in a homeless area, swept into the area, and not finding any evidence, Ness arrested all the homeless and burned down the residents' things, from makeshift homes to possessions.

media type="youtube" key="_61X4_RL3CU" height="344" width="425" A montage of scenes from the movie "The Untouchables"