Al+Capone+(gangster)

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====Alphonse Capone, better known as Al "Scarface" Capone was one of the nation's most notorious gangsters in the 1920's. He was born in the mischievous city known as Brooklyn, in 1899. By two Italian immigrants. From the time he could remember, he never responded well to authority. In sixth grade he beat his female teacher, then left school after being verbally punished by his principle. These actions put him in the wrong directions, whitch led him to join a street gang ran by Johny Torrio and Lucky Luciano.====

====In December of 1918, Capone was faced with an argument that soon ended due to the fact that Capone killed the victim. Al then took the easy way out by contacting his old companion Torrio, and moving to Chicago. He then landed a job as a bartender at one of Torrio's nightclubs. He used his brutal ways to escort people out of the club.====

====As Torrio's right hand man, he was given the task of taking out "Big Jim" Colosimo, who had Chicago's underground on lock. He then completed this task on May 11, 1920. After this tragedy Torrio soon became the big cheese in Chicago, leaving Capone with managing the cities alcohol.====

====Torrio's reign as the boss in Chicago soon came to a halt, as he was seriously wounded after an attempt to be assassinated. This gave Al Capone the opportunity to run Chicago in 1925. He ran the city with his mob. When his mob had reached its peak, Capone had accomplished to have city aldermen, mayors, legislators, governors, congressmen, and over half the Chicago police force on his payroll.====

====He soon started taking out the competition by ordering the death of Bugs Moran, who was affiliated with another Chicago underground faction, on Feb 14. He managed to kill 7 people, whitch is now known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre. With doing so he still didn't accomplish his goal whitch was to kill Moran. This act changed a lot of criminal minds to starting crime organizations.====

====Capone was surely blinded by the betrayal of undercover agent Eddie O'Hare. Who led Capone's dog and race track, by giving the IRS a lead as to where they could find Capone's financial records. On November 24, Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in Federal prison, fined $50,000, charged $7692 for court costs, and $215,000 in back taxes for tax evasion.====

====He was let go after 7 years and paying all of his back taxes. His mental and physical state were drastically devastated. He was soon admitted into Baltimore hospital for brain treatment. He did accomplish killing O'Hare after finding out he snitched on him. He then died from a stroke on January 25, 1947.====

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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 led Chicago to its reputation as a lawless city. Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. He joined after he quit school in the 6th grade at the age of 14. He became part of the notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Brooklyn dive, the Harvard Inn, as a bouncer and bartender. While working at the Inn, Capone received his infamous facial scars and the resulting nickname "Scarface" when he insulted a patron and was attacked by her brother.

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 **Al Capone**


 * Born:** January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York.
 * Died:** January 25, 1947, Palm Island, Florida.

**Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone**

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Al Capone, a Mobster who ran the streets of Chicago in the 1920s, was born into an immigrant Italian family, grew up in the tough Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY, Capone became involved in drug activity at a young age when he first got expelled from school at age 14. He saw new advantages on how to make easy money, such as smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition.

For Capone it all started when he had got expelled from school, and joined a street gang called "James Street Gang", is where he started to pick up his street smarts from. Later on he was awarded a higher rank from his leader Johnny Torrio, to move up into the Five points gang, where he started to actually make some noise. Capone started out smuggling alcohol and getting into bar fights, to become a mob leader and involved in many crimes as well as ordering hits on enemies or people who dared to get in his way.

When in 1925 Torrio retired, Capone then took leadership and became crime boss of Chicago. He ran gambling, prostitution, bootlegging rackets, and to expanding his territories by gunning down other gang rivals, he was becoming so successful at the time that in 1927 his earnings reached up to $100,000,000. He was also involved in one of the most notorious massacres in gang history. The "St. Valentine’s Day Massacre" in which one of Capone's rival gang members were gunned down in a north side garage in Feb. 14 1929. Capone at this time was a big shot who was feared by many people during his time.

But unfortunately his reign over Chicago started to slow down, he wasn't the Capone he had always been. Especially when in June 31st he was indicted for federal income tax invasion, and in October he was sentenced to 11 years in jail. That’s when Capone's mobster years ended, because after he transferred to his second prison he started to suffer from the general deterioration of paresis, which is a late stage of syphilis. He then died died in 1947 in Florida, where he retired from his real estate.