Almost everyone knows how Al Capone went down. We’ve seen the movies.

The biggest and baddest gangster in American history extorted and murdered for years. But the feds could never convict him on anything, until the green eyeshade guys went to work. They finally nabbed Capone — on income tax evasion.

The moral of this story? Even the most ruthless of our richest can’t hide what the federal government really wants to find.

We need the green eyeshades back on the job. Today’s wealthy have taken tax evasion to a level that old Scarface never dared imagine. Their network of offshore tax havens is now hiding a significant share of the world’s wealth.

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