the great-nephew of Napoleon founded the FBI.
Napoleon's nephew married an American but on returning to France was forced to divorce her so Napoleon could marry him to a more important wife and make him a king (Napoleon put his family on all the thrones that he could).
One of the children and grandchildren of this marriage had offspring with celebrated careers, including his grandson Charles: who held positions of reform in the government or in government related organizations.
Fast forward:
In 1905 he took a giant leap when President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him Navy Secretary but only spent a year and a half in charge because he reached a second milestone by becoming U.S. Attorney General. It was in that fate when he processed several antitrust claims, one of which was especially resounding because it would mean the dissolution in 1911 of the powerful American Tobacco Company , which had integrated two hundred minor tobacco companies. These drastic measures earned him the nickname Charlie, the Crook Chaser.
Also then, in 1908, he created the BOI (Bureau of Investigation), a criminal investigation office to prosecute crimes against the United States and with jurisdiction over the entire national territory. It depended on the Department of Justice and although it began with a certain modesty, with only nine detectives, thirteen investigators for civil rights cases and a dozen accountants to investigate economic crimes, it obtained resounding successes and would soon reach great prestige, especially under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover and with the new name that was given to it in 1935: FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
Headsup Tea At Trianon.
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