It's not completely off the deep end by any means. It was the IRS that
brought down Capone and I'd bet that lesson wasn't soon forgotten.

(The NY/NJ area was run by five la cosa nostra families from at least
the 40s (possibly earlier) on through modern times, though since the
early 90s they are but a small shadow of what they were in their glory
days. Gotti's conviction was the beginning of the end.)

C J Campbell wrote:
I don't remember his name, but he was supposed to have been the head of the
Mafia in New Jersey during the 1960s. More likely he was head of some
family, rather than head of the Mafia in all New Jersey. The story was told
me in 1973 by my income tax professor at the University of Washington, so it
could well be the CPA equivalent of an urban legend. But I like it anyway.