The End of Mr. Means
Gaston Means had already gotten away with a lot: a lot of money, and possibly murder, when he landed in Washington and went to work. Officially, he was an agent of the Justice Department. Unofficially, he was a fixer. He could make your troubles go away, or put you in touch with people who could get things done. The sort of things that got done were permits to sell medicinal alcohol when it was illegal for any other purpose. Means had started out as an investigator, but the sort of things he found out were likely to cost you.
His last con was inside information on the location of the kidnapped baby of Charles Lindbergh. He got $104,000, but spent the rest of his life in prison.
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