Criminal Enterprise Dismantled Using The Al Capone Method

About Indiana State Police - Special Investigations

The Indiana State Police (ISP) is a full-service law enforcement agency with a mission covering traffic, criminal investigations, and forensic services for the entire state. Detective Jeff Coffey serves in the Organized Crime and Corruption Unit within the Special Investigations Section. With over 30 years of experience, including extensive work with the IRS Criminal Investigations, Detective Coffey focuses on complex financial crimes, public corruption, and large-scale money laundering. His unit's ethos is to be highly strategic and efficient, maximizing finite government resources to get results.

The Challenge: Neutralizing a Criminal Enterprise

Detective Coffey's unit received a tip regarding a fraudulent 501(c)(3) animal rescue organization, "K9 Plantation," used by a violent con artist to solicit donations. The team decided to adopt the "Al Capone theory," going after the money, but faced a major internal time barrier:

• ‍Financial Fraud: The suspect solicited a $35,000 donation from a businessman before the charity was legally created and before a dedicated account was established, violating IRS guidelines.
• ‍Manual Bottleneck: The detective's status quo was to spend laborious hours manually going "line by line with a highlighter" across pages of checking account statements, a task that is "extremely laborious" and "not fun."
• ‍Limited Scope Pressure: Prosecutors required a highly conservative approach, limiting the investigation to a very short three-to-four-month window of records. The evidence needed to be precise and highly damaging to be effective.

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