Al Capone: Gangster In The World

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Wanted Al Capone Reward; 6,000,000 million dollars "Scarface" Al Capone was paroled and released from Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California, in 1939 due to the ravages of syphilis, which he had caught earlier while running whorehouses. For many years, he was considered the most notorious gangster in the world, managing Chicago's gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets with impunity. . Nicknamed “Scarface” In 1918, Capone got into a bar fight over a girl with a hood, who slashed the left side of his face three times with a knife, resulting in Capone's nickname, “Scarface,” by which he would be known for…show more content…
Valentine's Day Massacre," the biggest gangland slaying in history. His underlings discovered the location of the warehouse of his chief rival, George "Bugs" Moran, and learned that Moran would attend a meeting there at a set time. Capone dispatched a carload of his henchmen dressed as police officers to the…show more content…
The men were machine-gunned and shot-gunned to death, each with 15 to 20 or more bullets. But Moran was not among them. After the widely publicized massacre, including shocking photos, public opinion about Capone started to change, prompting federal law enforcement to focus more closely on investigating his activities. Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began a successful probe of Capone and his business. He closed many of Capone’s breweries and speakeasies, and slowly brought his empire down. Convicted of Income Tax Evasion The federal government finally managed to arrest him by prosecuting him for income tax evasion in 1931. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced the next year to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. But he was still able to oversee his criminal empire from his cell. In 1934, he was transferred to the new federal prison at Alcatraz Island, built to hold the country's worst criminals, in San Francisco Bay. Five years later, he was paroled, and lived out the last eight years of his life at his Florida estate, his brain almost totally destroyed by syphilis. In the movies, Capone was portrayed by Rod Steiger in “Al Capone” (1959), Ben Gazzara in “Capone” (1975), and Robert De Niro in “The Untouchables”

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