The IRS also nailed Al Capone, when regular police wouldn't do shit.
Fun fact: The FBI's main purpose was to take down Al Capone and stop there. Instead, the IRS did it instead and now we're stuck with the FBI all these decades later. Yay.
Apparently the longest jail sentence you can get for tax evasion is like 5 years which is peanuts to a vampire I'm sure. Sucks she's losing all her stuff though.
The IRS also nailed Al Capone, when regular police wouldn't do shit.
darkspire91 said:
Fun fact: The FBI's main purpose was to take down Al Capone and stop there. Instead, the IRS did it instead and now we're stuck with the FBI all these decades later. Yay.
Another fun fact: the main reason Al Capone went down to tax evasion is it was the only thing the Feds could make stick; he kept getting off for his racketeering via various chicanery, but the IRS could point to his lavish lifestyle, well in excess of what his declared income could support, and claim that he was making money that he wasn't paying taxes on. Even the news media burned a fair amount of page count and screentime on this reasoning.
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Incidentally, in the US, the IRS can insist that you pay taxes on money you earn via illegal enterprise. They can't ask how you made it, because that'd violate the 5th Amendment, but they can ask how much you made and charge taxes on it. If you rob a bank, for example, the IRS won't bother you so long as you pay taxes on your share of the take. (This won't stop other law enforcement agencies from pursuing you, but you'll be in the clear with the taxman.)
