The Internal Revenue Service likes to prosecute celebrities, partly because celebrities often have large financial liabilities and partly because the publicity attendant to skewering the famous helps to spread the warning to humbler citizens. Among the notables accused:
> Al Capone, the Caesar of the Chicago gangland, was never convicted of murder, robbery, kidnaping, extortion or even bootlegging. But Treasury agents nailed him for evading payment of $1.2 million in taxes from 1924 to 1929, and the mobster was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison in Atlanta.
> George M. Cohan, Broadway's premier...
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