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Al Capone: More Than Meets the Eye
Robbie M. Carlson
Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School
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Abstract
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.
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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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Prohibition led to the bootlegging of liquor and the gang wars of the 1920’s. The most notorious gangster of all time, known as Al Capone, was the most powerful mob leader of his era. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931. Capone grew up during the roaring 20s in Chicago. He joined the James Street gang, lead by Johnny Torrio. In 1920, Torrio asked Capone to move to Chicago and work with his uncle who controlled the city’s largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time. Capone had liked that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and Capone became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Al Capone was America's best known gangster and greatest
Al Capone was for a time, an Underboss, and eventually the Boss of the Chicago crime outfit, which had criminal activity for bootlegging. Al Capone was a very under the radar man when it came to making money and keeping it his. Jay Gatsby made the claim that he inherited it from his family, however we know that cannot be true. Al Capone secured his money by never even having a bank account, nor even registering property in his name. Al Capone was the boss of the Chicago outfit from 1925-1931, which during that time, bootlegging was popular and was very easy money.
Once the organized crime families were established they were the main contributors to the illegal “Bootlegging” of alcohol. During the 20’s there was a great deal of violent crimes. Most of them could be connected back to the organized crime families. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone was a gangster who led illegal activities such as the smuggling and the bootlegging of alcohol during the prohibition. Even though he had a tough exterior he was a caring man he was the first to open up a soup kitchen in Chicago (hammer). Capone’s estimated annual revenue was around 100 million dollars. He had many men working for him such as Frank Nitti, August Pisano and Louis Morganno. He supplied Chicago with most of its alcohol. (Capone: the man and his era).
In 1927 the Supreme Court ruled that illegal money is taxable giving the government a strong case of income-tax evasion. When Capone went to trial he bribed and intimidated the jury, but at the final moment the jury was switched to a new one and on June 5, 1931 Capone was convicted of 22 counts of income tax evasion (History.com). He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Two years of his prison sentence was served an an a prison in Atlanta, but he was caught using bribery, and he was sent to the notorious Alcatraz
Al Capone form Wikipedia was born in January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York.20 years ago Capone moved to Chicago because a friend Johnny Torino invited him to move there. He lived in the south side of Chicago. Capone’s name was soon in the newspaper because he use to sell illegal liquor to Iowa State. Wen Capone was small he would not go to school some times because instead he would go do bad stuff. If he saw that someone took something from another person he would bet them up and take the object back to its owner. In 1928 Capone was addicted to beer so what he did was he paid $40, 0000 dollars on just beer. Capone had the most powerful gang in Chicago state for more than 3 years he also had the most expensive automobile in Chicago.
Al Capone was famous for leading the Chicago mafia during the days of prohibition in the 1920’s, 1930’s, and 1940’s. One of his major crime accomplishments was the Saint Valentine's day massacre of 1929 where he wiped out all of the North Side Gang and their leader Bugs Moran to take Chicago's control
In 1925, Torrio escaped the mobster business after rival gangs tried to kill him. This left Capone as the leader of the entire operation. After Torrio left, Capone came into the spotlight. He did not stay out of the public eye, and he moved his headquarters in to the Metropole Hotel in downtown Chicago. Capone spent an enormous amount of money, and his business was booming, with an estimation of generating $100 million annually. The press constantly followed Capone, and some of the public saw him as a hero working against the prohibition.(history.com, Al Capone). Although, the picture of Capone as a hero did not last forever, because the public learned his operations were connected with violence.
Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn New York(“Al Capone”). He was a
Crime is a timeless component of society. For as long as humans have existed among each other, crime has coincided. Throughout time, crime has taken many different forms, some much more subtle than others. Alphonse Capone, a first generation American-Italian born in Brooklyn, would dramatically redefine the nature of criminality. Al Capone was a notorious Chicago mob boss who played a crucial role in the Chicago Outfit as well as the bootlegging industry. Throughout his rise to power in the Chicago, Capone took part in many nefarious dealings that culminated in the creation of a undisputed “King of Crime” until his death in 1947. However, Capone is a timeless figure, his impact on Chicago and influence he’s had on the world of crime, continues to live on.
Similar to the previous outcry of the public, the government became engaged in ending Capone and his violence. The documents that the police found while raiding Capone’s business were being used charge Capone with income-tax evasion, and President Herbert Hoover commanded that the government increase its efforts to end Capone. The federal government was able to indict Capone, because of the Supreme Court decision in 1927, which ruled that income from illegal activities was taxable. It would not be Capone’s murderous acts that ended his empire, it would be the government indicting Capone on 22 counts of income-tax evasion on June 5, 1931. (Kennedy, Adrienne A., Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, January, 2016)
As he kept doing the most notorious crimes all over Illinois he soon won the election in office because Capone kidnapped one of the election writers and throated voter with violence but his brother frank had died in a shootout with the chicago police force while Capone was busy trying to win election. ( Al Capone biography.com). After this incident Al Capone gave himself up to the police Capone soon enough became a role of peacemaking,He managed to brother asn amnesty between rival gangsters escalated into street violence and frequently started hijacking Capone's whiskey transportation so it ruin Capone's business so Capone found a new partner from yale but soon enough capon had figured it out that
Al Capone, who was born in New York in 1899, was one of the most prominent gangsters in America in the 1920s. He was the son of Italian immigrants, and after leaving school at a young age, became a small-time criminal. Known as ‘Scarface,’ he had links to the leader of the Five Points Gang, Johnny Torrio, and moved to Chicago in 1920, where he gradually rose through the ranks as a partner in saloons, gambling and brothels. They moved their operations to Illinois after an offer to work with Jim Colosimo, a central figure in Chicago’s brothel business. Gang rivalry heated up after a dispute between Torrio and Colosimo over whether to begin in the bootlegging business, and in 1920, Colosimo was murdered allegedly by Al Capone. After this, Torrio’s criminal empire expanded massively throughout Chicago, before leaving in 1925 and handing over operations to Capone. After taking over, Capone expanded operations even further, and was able to control Chicago’s Mayor, ‘Big Bill’ Thompson and fix his elections. A local newspaper from the time reported
Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York to couples, Gabriele and Teresina Capone. two typical Italian immigrants who traveled to America to seek a better life. His family stayed in a poor tenement as Alphonse
By late 1928 Al Capone was the most flamboyant and successful criminals in the United States. His power was arguably unmatched by any criminal to date. Capone’s
Before arriving at Alcatraz, Capone had been a master at manipulating his environment at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Despite strict convictions from the courts, Capone was always able to persuade his keepers into procuring his every whim, and