Elmer Lincoln Irey
Elmer Lincoln Irey (March 10, 1888 – July 19, 1948) was a Postal Inspector, United States Treasury Department official and the first Chief of the Internal Revenue Service Intelligence Unit, that would later become Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Irey led the investigative unit during the federal tax evasion prosecution of Chicago mobster Al Capone.
Elmer Lincoln Irey | |
|---|---|
| Chief Internal Revenue Service Intelligence Unit | |
| In office July 1, 1919 – January 26, 1943 | |
| President | Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | William H. Woolf |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 10, 1888 Kansas City, MO |
| Died | July 19, 1948 (aged 60) |
| Residence | Washington, D.C. |
| Alma mater | Georgetown Law School Bachelor of Laws |
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