“Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness, I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not how you’ll remember me!”Said by Al Capone. Capone is known to be one of America’s most famous gangsters in the prohibition era. His crimes are still much known in today’s time like the “St. Valentine’s day Massacre”. Al Capone was arrested for tax evasion and not for the many of crimes he was suspected of committing like murders and bootlegging.
Besides most other gangsters Al Capone was born into a poor Italy immigrant family. His father was a well respected Italian barber. After getting expelled at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher he never went back to school (http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#early-life). Even though he never finished the sixth grade Al Capone was very intelligent and by the age twenty-six he was running Chicago’s criminal underworld. He began his career under the wing of criminal boss Johnny Torrio
…show more content…
It was hard to find investigators to work the case, because a lot of police officers would take bribes from Al Capone and his gang to stay quit, many were afraid for their lives and the safety of their families. Thanks to Elliot Ness, The Untouchables, Bureau of Revenue, investigator Frank Wilson, and a federal judge James Wilkerson, was the reason for the conviction of Al Capone. To convict Capone they needed an inside job the only one who took it was Eddie O’Hare giving information to the government for two years and later was gun down by two men (Linder). Another agent pretended to be a gangster from Philadelphia to get inside information from Capone’s men named Michael Malone (www.myalcaponemuseum.com).The United States government decided to go with the tax charges because they felt that tax evasion would stick better than prohibition violations