# John Monaghan

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District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1928 and 1929, as the newspaper reports call him. He led the 1928 grand jury inquiry into bootlegging and police graft and prosecuted Al Capone's 1929 weapons case.

A public official named in newspaper reports. His office is given in the summary as the papers print it; no role line is set, because no federal record on this page states it. The given name John is as printed in the May 1929 Evening Star report. The claims attributed to him on these pages are his statements as reported.

## Sources

- Evening Star, 17 May 1929, page 4 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America): https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1929-05-17/ed-1/?sp=4