What Were Al Capone's Accomplishments

Al Capone was a criminal that did many crimes and other bad things in his life. He most likely was one of the main reasons why alcohol is legal today. He gave Chicago its reputation as a ‘lawless city’ and put Chicago on the map. The nickname “Scarface” came from him being a bouncer and getting into a fight after flirting with a girl. His favorite drink was Templeton Rye whiskey. Al’s car was a Cadillac was seized by the U.S. in 1932 and later used as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s limo. Al Capone’s life of crime began early in his life and eventually led to his

     The ultimate symbol of a gangster rule, is a guy by the name of Al Capone, who dominated the Chicago underworld by committing many crimes: such as illegal gambling, extortion, prostitution, and alcohol distribution during prohibition. Capone’s life of gang activity started at a very young age. He created a multi-million dollar empire of crime in Chicago. He has been referred to as one of the most ruthless men of all time (Stockdale 45). He was a smart businessman, good family man, and a generous person, that lived a life full of murders and other crimes.

Al Capone’s attempt to murder leader of the Chicago gang, George (bugs) Moran-Dean O’ Banion yesterday in February 14th, 1929 was a failure after Al Capone had come to the realization that Moran was not yet in the garage where Al Capone had thought that Moran was in. Although, Moran was not killed Al Capone’s four men that were sent to kill and murder Moran successfully killed seven members of his northern Chicago gang, also, known as one of the most brutal massacres in the city’s underworld.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone also known as “Al Capone” was an American gangster, born in Brooklyn New York on January 17 1899. His parent were immigrants from Italy, his father was a barber and his mother a seamstress. Al Capone had seven brothers, and two sisters. Capone went to a catholic school, but had behavioral issues. He was expelled from school at the age of fourteen for punching a female teacher in the face. Capone’s family was very involved in criminal activity, his two older brothers and step father ran a bottling company that sold legal and illegally. Al Capone was born into a crime family, and I think this influenced him to become one of America’s most notorious criminals.

Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. Back then when you heard about a violent or brutal incident it was probably Al Capone . The most well known occurrence was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, when he ordered his people to kill seven of gangster rivals . Capone believe it or not was not ever charged for his gangster acts, but instead for income-tax evasion in 1913. After serving six-and-a-half years in the penitentiary, Capone was released in 1939. He died from cardiac

     Capone was able time and time again to avoid criminal charges, and became a true racketeer, an art of its own. Ironically, the government finally was able to put Scarface behind bars on charges of federal income tax evasion. He was sentenced to eleven years in prison. Eleven years that couldn’t even be saved by the four million-dollar bribe offered by Capone’s attorneys.

Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, he is the son of poor immigrants Gabriel and Teresina Capone, there were eight children in his family, and Capon was the fourth one. He didn’t like how his parents were poor so in the sixth grade and he dropped out of school and decide to join a gang. In 1918 he married Mae Coughlin they had a child named Albert Francis. They made Johnny Torrio the boy’s godfather. Capone wanted the best for his family so they moved to Baltimore so he could take an honest job to be a bookkeeper for a construction company that his dad owned. When Capone’s father had a heart attack Torrio invited him to go to Chicago so he could help him stay out of trouble so Capone went for the opportunity. When Torrio caught on to what Capone was doing he promoted him to be his partner but instead of keeping a low profile Capone began to develop the reputation of a drinker and a rabble-rouser after hitting a taxicab while driving drunk.

      Al Capone was one of the most notorious gangsters during the 1920’s. He was a self-made business man. He had a ready smile and a quick handshake, which if you did not play your cards right, could turn out to be fatal. It took 500 gangland murders to make Capone the boss of Chicago. He was public enemy number one. Capone single handedly gave Chicago the nickname “The Lawless City.”

Throughout America's history there have been many famous criminals, John Dillinger, John Gotti, Lucky Luciano, just to name a few. However, due to his extreme wealth and Godfather like status, the most notorious and famous one might have been Al Capone.

Capone had power over the city for so many years, but eventually the police were able to pin a petty crime on him: tax evasion. President Herbert Hoover started to focus his efforts on Capone. After he sent out an arrest order for Scarface, a government group was created called the Untouchables. Led by Eliot Ness, the Untouchables were dedicated to capturing Capone. They could not pin anything on him at all because of the various ways he evaded the police. Finally, one of the members of the Untouchables, Frank Wilson, an accountant who observed Capone’s expenses, discovered that he was not paying any taxes. He had an enormous house in Miami, had expensive clothing, shopped expensive clothes, and stayed in extremely fancy hotels. It was discovered that that there were about $100,000 taxable income between 1928-1929, but that was never payed. It is ironic how they could not arrest him for bootlegging or murder, but they could only arrest him for the money he earned doing so. He was sentenced to 11 years in the Atlanta Penitentiary and later became one of the first prisoners at Alcatraz. After

Al Capone is America's best-known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.

The most infamously known mobster and gangster, Alphonse Capone better known as Al Capone or Scarface, was born in poverty and worked his way up to get power. His mother, Teresina, immigrated from Italy to New York where Al Capone grew up poor. He ended up quitting school and worked in a bowling alley. Al Capone grew up in a bad neighborhood and ended up being a gangster at the age of eight-teen. He then made some choices based on what his gang leader told him. Al Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities occurring in Chicago which gave a sense of a lawless city. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931. Prohibition led to the bootlegging of liquor and the gang war’s of the 1920s. Al Capone one of the world’s most feared gangster started his life in poverty and ended up making millions from the sell of illegal liquor, prostitution, gambling, and extortion.

The mafia is one of the most notorious and most misunderstood myths to most people in the western world, which have no real understanding of what the mafia truly is. This must, however, be considered excusable since the very existence of the mafia has been hard to prove, even for authorities. The example of Al Capone, a mobster from Chicago during the 1920-1930s, is textbook for showing how hard it really is to convict people belonging to the mafia. Al Capone was a ruthless mobster that was involved in mainly smuggling alcohol during the prohibition era, as well as involved in the violent gang rivalries of the time. For instance, the St. Valentines massacre of February 14th 1929 were accredited to the Capone mob, even though Al Capone himself

Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York and quit school in sixth grade to join a gang. After murdering two people in New York, he fled to Chicago, (-) where he joined a gang run by James Colosimo. Johnny Torrio, a friend of Capone’s who invited him to join the gang, had Colosimo murdered and took his position of running the gang. Al Capone was then put in second command of the gang. Once Torrio was shot by a rival gang, Capone became the leader of the gang. Capone quickly became the most feared crime boss in Chicago, organizing machine gun attacks and paying off politicians and police officers. One of Capone’s most well known attacks was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, Al Capone had organized a hit on a rival gang. Two of his gang members dressed up as police officers and pretended to arrest seven members of the other gang. While the seven gang members had their hands raised, facing a wall, the police officer imposters open fired on them with machine guns. Although the whole nation knew Capone was behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, he was never charged with the crime because there was a lack of evidence against him. Later in his life, Capone was convicted of tax evasion. After being in prison for eleven years, Capone was released and spent the rest of his life in Florida until he died in

Known as one of the most notorious mafias in america in the 1930’s, Al Capone was born Alphonse Gabriel Capone on, January 17, 1899(Britannica.com). He grew up with his parents who had just moved from Italy. At one point in his career Al Capone made an estimated $100 Million Dollars a year(Simon). Most mafias aren't really popular amongst civilians, right? Well not Capone. He was popular amongst the civilians unlike most other Mafias. One of Capone’s most famous quotes was, “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone”(brainyquote.com) . The quote describes Capone because it assembles who he was a person. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was an american mafia in the 1918-1947 who used his role as a mob boss and a social influence to the benefit of greater things. He did this by donating he his money to the homeless, creating food booths that the homeless could use for free and by helping out the