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We Followed Capone: Prohibition Laws Case

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February 27 1920 F.B.I agent Morgan got a leak that Capone was falsifying his health to not go to the grand jury to be a witness for a violation of prohibition laws case.He got interested and had agent Jarrett in Miami, Florida to look into it. They soon found that he was completely ok.
Morgan had jerrett follow him around and do some reconnaissance. He found that he has been meeting up with some heads of his crime organization. We had no proof on what they were doing but we had a pretty good gess. With capone’s history we narrowed it down to something to do with the prohibition laws or a murder. We followed him for the next few days to see if we could figure it out and by the information the conclusion was prohibition.

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