Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago. Ness was the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables. Ness and his team inflicted major financial damage on Capone’s operations and led to his indictment on five thousand violations of the Volstead Act in June 1931.
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Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois. Ness was the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables. His co-authorship of a popular autobiography, which was released shortly after his death, launched several television and motion picture portrayals that established Ness’s posthumous fame as an incorruptible crime fighter. Ness’s brother-in-law, Alexander Jamie, an agent of the Bureau of Investigation, influenced Ness to enter law enforcement. Ness joined the U.S. Treasury Department in 1926, working with the 1,000-strong Bureau of Prohibition inChicago. Ness and his team inflicted major financial damage on Capone’s operations and led to his indictment on five thousand violations of the Volstead Act in June 1931. On October 17, 1931, Capone was convicted on three counts of tax evasion. On May 3, 1932, Ness was among the federal agents who took Capone from Cook County Jail to Dearborn Federal Penitentiary—the only time both men are known to have met in person. In December 1935, Cleveland mayor Harold H Burton hired Ness as the city’s Director of Safety, which put him in charge of both the city of Cleveland and the Moonshine Mountains of southern Ohio. Ness died of a heart attack on December 31, 1937, at the age of 48.
He was buried in Chicago’s Englewood Cemetery, next to his wife, the former Barbara Ness, a former Chicago police officer who died in a car crash in 1968. Ness is survived by his three children, two step-children, and a step-granddaughter. He is buried in a plot of land he inherited from his father, which he donated to the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also leaves behind a wife and a son, Michael Ness, who worked for the Chicago Police Department in the 1970s and 1980s. Ness also leaves a daughter, Mary Ness, and three step-great-grandchildren. Ness’ great-grandson Michael Ness is a well-known author and author of the book, “The Untouchable: A Biography of Eliot Ness”. Ness is also the author of a book about the life and times of the Chicago Outfit, “Elliott Ness: A Memoir of a Prohibition Agent” (1998). Ness died on December 30, 2007, at age 98, and is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Chicago, where he also worked as a police officer in the 1980s and 1990s. His great-nephew is former Chicago Police Officer Michael Ness. Ness served in the Army during the Second World War and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Staff. He died on January 25, 2011, in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Illinois, and was buried at Glencoe High School. Ness had a son named Michael Ness and a daughter named Mary Ness.
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