The Troubleshooter

In the summer of 1934, a new gambling device was sweeping the nation: the punchboards. Even though they were nickel-and-dime games, it added up-- they made more money for the mob than the numbers racket. After Ness and his men smash some of the punchboard manufacturing sites, the 5 members of the syndicate running the punchboards hold a meet at a building by the freight yards: the top mobsters from Chicago (Jake ""Joe"" Petrie), Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit and New York (Max Riegel). Petrie says he can sum up all their problems in 2 words: Eliot Ness. Max says in New York, they aren't losing so much-- they have Nate Selko the Trouble Shooter to make sure money goes to all the right places: police, judges, the legislature. Nate Selko walks into the room, to offer his services to the Chicago boss. Later, in a private room at a restaurant, Selko tries to bribe Ness, with a Swiss bank account with $500,000 in it (the deposit in the bank book is dated Feb. 26).* Selko says it would ta

Les Incorruptibles s'attaquent à un nouveau jeu clandestin et la mafia fait appel à un 'dépanneur', spécialiste de la corruption en tout genre. Ne pouvant pas acheter Ness, il organise un coup monté pour faire tomber l'agent fédéral mais son ambition au sein du syndicat finira par le perdre.

Cuando Ness pone en aprietos a la mafia del juego, los hampones contratan a un especialista para frenar al federal… con un soborno.