When President Herbert Hoover issued the order to bring down Chicago bootlegger and racketeer Al Capone, it wasn't the blazing Tommy guns of Eliot Ness and his so-called "Untouchables" that brought the gangster to justice.
Instead, it was a mild-mannered but incorruptible U.S. Attorney with ties to Berrien County who found a way to topple Public Enemy No. 1.
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