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Ness got all the credit, but it was actually forensic accountant Frank Wilson that was the real hero.

>These nerds were supercool, not just supersmart—enduring near-misses of mob hits. “Wilson fears nothing that walks,” his boss Elmer Irey observed. “He will sit quietly looking at books eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, forever, if he wants to find something in those books.” He “sweats ice water,” a criminal interrogated by Wilson sighed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bean-counter-who-put-al-capone-in-the-slammer

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