Al Capone The prohibition era was the time of a lot of great mobsters in American history. Al Capone and Johnny Torrio were two of the most important gangsters to make an impact on organized crime in America. The most influential, however, was Al Capone. Al Capone had an influence on organized crime in the 1920’s by taking over Johnny Torrio’s gang, the St. Valentine’s Days Massacre, and by building a criminal empire in Chicago before dying of Syphilis. This symbolic crime figure began his days in Brooklyn, New York where he was born to poor Italian immigrants on January 17, 1899.
Al worked faithfully at a munitions factory and a paper cutter. At eighteen Al met another gangster by the name of Francesco Loele who called himself Frankie Yale who was both feared and respected. Yale opened a bar called the Harvard Inn. He hired the young Al Capone as a bartender under the recommendation of Johnny Torrio. Capone’s time as a bartender would be his second brush with violence.
Al Capone’s greatest crime was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on February 14, 1929. Four of Capone’s men entered a garage at 2122 N Clark Street. Two of his men were pressed as police so the men at the garage propped their guns thinking it was a police raid, but then Capone’s men shot over 150 bullets in their victims. 6 out of the 7 were part of the Moran gang, but the last was an unlucky friend. Al Capone’s alibi was that he was in Florida.
Records show mob-linked companies have been subcontractors on most of the major projects of the last few years, including highway repair, the midtown office tower boom, the massive water treatment plant in the Bronx, even the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. While wagering on sporting events and races across state lines is illegal. Seeing an opportunity, the Mafia set up Web sites in Costa Rica—one of several South American and Caribbean countries where online sports betting is legal—to process online bets placed back home in New York. “It's not that the Mob is necessarily branching into new industries. It's just that they've pushed age-old breadwinners—prostitution, gambling, and money laundering—to new levels (or depths) in order to compete in an increasingly globalized economy.”(Bonner, Stayton.)
This man has an American background so the people started to wonder where it all went wrong. We interviewed some people in New York to find out about what they think is the cause of this major problem. Surprisingly they all jumped to the same conclusion: the narcotic world is the product of the American society. One of them said: “I think we are responsible for La Barbie’s career. The American society is the cause of the rise of the all the Mexican drug cartels, who brought their own government, but also partly our democracy, to it’s
US History 11 6 October 2010 2nd block Alphonse Capone: The American Gangster Alphonse Capone, as known as "Al Capone" or "Scarface", is an American gangster during Prohibition, which was the time period (1920s) in the U.S. that alcohol was banned, but did not stop this bootlegger. This criminal had a rough, violent life since he was a boy all the way to his death. Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. The hard life started for him at such a young age, possibly from his surroundings and where he lived. He was a smart kid but ended up dropping out of his 6th grade year after violently attacking his female teacher.
In the 1930’s there was a group of hit men called Murder Inc. One of the hit men was Martin “Buggsy” Goldstein who was one of the Jewish members as opposed to the Italian hit men, who were normally affiliated with the mafia. Born Meyer Goldstein, Goldstein grew up in East New York, Brooklyn, New York, and initially led the crime group Murder, Inc. together with Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Thanks in part to testimony by Reles, who turned informant in an effort to escape the electric chair, Goldstein and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss were convicted of the murder of Irving "Puggy" Feinstein and sentenced to death. When given the opportunity to speak before receiving the mandatory sentence of a date with the electric chair, Goldstein,
Over the next four months Dillinger's escapades -- daring robberies and narrow escapes from the law -- were popular newsreel features and he became something of a folk hero. After a tip from informant Ana Cumpanas (a.k.a. Anna Sage), federal agents ambushed Dillinger on 22 July 1934 outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, where he had just seen the movie Manhattan
"He made us laugh hard, every time you saw him on television, movies, nightclubs, arenas, hospitals, homeless shelters, for our troops overseas and even in a dying girl's living room," Crystal said of Williams in a carefully measured tribute. "The brilliance was astounding. The relentless energy was kind of thrilling. I used to think if I could just put a saddle on him and stay on for eight seconds, I was going to do okay." "Well, as genius as he was onstage, he was the greatest friend you could ever imagine: supportive, protective, loving.
I don’t regret anything I’ve done in your presence and absences. Like that time when I knew you liked Jeremy but I moved in on him anyway. Or the many times I held your hair for you while you threw up after a big night. My goodness that was gross! However I will always remember the nights watching the breakfast club with our favourite men, Ben and Jerry.