https://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/annual2006/CFO.htm
Louis Shumway was an FBI snitch and an accountant whose valuable information led to a conviction of "Public Enemy No. 1" in 1931.
A notorious mobster, Al Capone was suspected and accused of numerous crimes throughout the early twentieth century. However, for one reason or another, Capone could not be convicted of anything and remained free to continue his nefarious enterprises.
When criminal charges failed to stick, the government turned a suspicious eye toward Capone's financial operations. Shumway, an accountant for Capone's liquor business, became the informant who helped Eliot Ness and the "Untouchables" finally obtain a conviction against one of America's most notorious criminals, not for racketeering but for tax evasion. Ever since then, being an "accountant with conviction" has been an attractive calling for many young men and women in America.
https://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2017/07/using-witness-protection-programs-to.html
In the 1920s and ’30s people such as Chicago mob boss Al Capone were able to literally get away with murder by threatening or killing witnesses. But when authorities found bookkeeping ledgers meticulously detailing Capone’s ill-gotten profits, Leslie (some sources say Louis) Shumway, one of the men responsible for keeping the ledgers, was hidden away and brought to court under police guard. He became a material witness in a case for tax evasion. Capone was convicted in 1931 and sent to prison, after which police broke his control of his crime organisation, freeing Shumway of any fear of retribution. Shumway lived the rest of his life in seclusion but by the ’40s Capone was losing his mind due to late stage syphilis. Capone died in 1947 in Florida and Shumway died in 1964, also in Florida.
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