rio. Seriously wounded, Torrio left Chicago and turned his personal empire over to his right-hand man, a young gangster from New York named Alphonse Capone.
             For nearly two years, the Capone and Weiss mobs and their allies waged war on each other. Weiss led two attempts to assassinate Capone, but Capone survived and, in the end, it was Weiss who was shot. This left the North Side gang in the hands of George "Bugs" Moran. Capone was now the dominant mobster in Chicago.
             "By 1929, Capone's infamy had reached Washington, D.C. President Herbert Hoover, outraged by reports of the millionaire ganglord living above the law, instructed his secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, to work on putting the mobster behind bars," (Nickel 44). The federal government had two areas to attack Capone: income tax evasion and violations of the Volstead Act. The Feds pursued both avenues with equal vigor.
             "Quietly and anonymously, the IRS agents went about building their case against Capone by proving that
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