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Al Capone: More Than Meets the Eye

Robbie M. Carlson

Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School

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Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899 into a poor immigrant family which came to America seeking a better life.
When Al Capone was a kid he lived with his parents, Gabriele and Teresina Capone, in a very poor apartment.
As a teenager, Capone was recruited by Johnny Torrio, one of the most successful gangsters on the East Coast, for whom Capone did small favors and errands. In 1925 Torrio retired, and Capone became the head of a vast crime empire, operating gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by the gunning down of rivals and rival gangs. …show more content…

Capone was set free in 1930 for his concealed carry crime in Philadelphia and a month later the Chicago Crime Commission released its first ever list of the city’s worst criminals and Capone ranked number one.
The federal government built a case against Al Capone for income tax evasion in 1931 and in June 1931 he was charged for tax evasion.
In May 1932, Capone was only 33 years old when he began his sentence for tax evasion at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta, GA.
In the 1940s, Al Capone became one of the first people to receive penicillin for syphilis, even though it was already too late to cure him.
In January 1947, Capone suffered a stroke and came down with pneumonia and later died at his Florida home on January 25th.
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