Synopsis

November 1932. The notorious gangster Joe Palakopolous has engaged in a perilous maneuver: he has just had his assassin eliminate Danny Kugan, Frank Nitti’s primary source for Canadian whiskey. And Nitti is deeply angered. Kugan was uniquely capable of importing the Canadian Gold that Nitti desired. The inferior imitations are worthless; Nitti wryly observes that the swill is so dreadful, it “peels the labels off from the inside.” Eliot Ness and his agents launch an investigation into Kugan’s mu