Chicago mobster Al Capone attends a football game in 1931. (AP File Photo)ColumnistMy Friday column suggested that President Trump might want to cool it with all the references to Al Capone, who famously went to prison for tax evasion when the feds couldn’t get him on more serious crimes. This does not fit in with the government’s picture of a miserly effort to evade income tax. A tinhorn or a piker might try to defraud the government, but not Alphonse Capone. Eugene Robinson: Trump the mob boss wants protectionNeely Tucker: Eliot Ness and Al Capone: The men, the myths and the Bad Man in the Dark

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2018 21:33 UTC