Al Capone is a villain because he was a gangster in a gang that participated in organized crime in the United States. Al Capone had started to joining gangs when he was fourteen years old he joined the Forty Young Thieves. Crime in the U.S was not his first rodeo. He started by being a bouncer and a bartender at the Harvard Inn. Later joined a Torrio gang and started helping them with bootlegging in the city and making money. Later Torrio left the gang and now Capone was in charge, he was more organized than Torrio in the gang. After, he got involved with the St. Valentine's day massacre killing the Moran’s gang members to destroy the Moran’s gang. Later was in jail from a tax evasion from hundred million dollars was a evaded. These were the reasons why Al Capone was a villain and was a criminal in the U.S.
Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York as an immigrant.
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Once Al Capone joined gangs he started getting recognized in other gangs. Torrio had recognized that Al Capone had the potentials to join Torrio's gang. "About 1920, at Torrio’s invitation, Capone joined Torrio in Chicago where he had become an influential lieutenant in the Colosimo mob.” (FBI) This means that Al Capone turn into a lieutenant and Torrio watched him. Al Capone later was invited into Torrio gang and was working for him for a while. Capone later got respected in the gang and got so much respect that Torrio gave him the leadership to leed the gang. There was another reason why Torrio did this is because he had to hide from the other gang that seriously wounded from assassination attempt. After Al Capone became the leader of his gang Torrio retired to Brooklyn."In 1925, Capone became boss when Torrio, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, surrendered control and retired to Brooklyn.