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Bang! Bang! Al Capone, though looked on as a business man who gave the people what they wanted, was really a murderer who was leading the bootlegging business in Chicago. Doing anything and everything to earn that title, Capone would not stop his mastermind business for the merest bit of resistance. Though the times of being a criminal were challenging, Capone some how made it work. From being in a courthouse multiple times and getting off scot-free, to finally getting nailed and put away for some time. Finally, Capone had fallen, and he wasn’t getting back up from this one. Despite the belief by some that Al Capone was kind hearted, in reality, he was the leading gangster during the Prohibition Era in Chicago. Showing no mercy to those who …show more content…

On February 14, 1929, 7 people from “Bugs” Moran’s mob were said to be killed by Capone’s gang who were dressed as police. The FBI did not have availability to look into during that time. There were limitations in the 1920’s and 1930’s on what the FBI could investigate. Al Capone was really in Florida during this shooting. Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang was a big rival of Capone’s. Moran tried to kill Capone’s friend and colleague Jack McGurn. On Thursday February 14, at 10:30 A.M. McGurn had Moran’s gang com to their garage to buy whisky. Mcgurn and the rest of his gang were wearing stolen police uniforms and had a stolen squad car. Bugs Moran saw the police car and left before anything happened. Mcgurn had the rest of Moran’s gang line up on the wall. Mcgurn’s men took their weapons and opened fire on them. The newspapers said that four men, two in police uniforms, lined seven members of a rival gang against the wall at a beer distributor’s meeting place at 2,122 North Clark Street. They shot at the gang because of illegal liquor traffic. The seven men included James Clark, Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, John May, and Weinshank Albert. Six of the gangsters died on the spot, the seventh one died an hour later with twenty or more bullets in him. In the police investigation Capone’s name was being mentioned quite a bit. There was over 160 empty machine gun shells on the floor of where the men died. Moran remained alive taken away by raiders. The first two men with the police uniforms had sub-machine guns while the other two men who were in street clothes had sawed off shotguns. After shooting the seven men, the four shooters got into their stolen squad car and their fifth man drove off with them into traffic. The police also suspected that Aiello brothers’ gang of North side Sicilians planned this raid, but none were found to be associated with the

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George “Bugs” Moran Mobster and a Businessman he made his millions running booze he lost his millions just as fast as he had made them in his bloody war with one of the biggest mobsters of all time. Bugs Moran mobster turned leader of the North Side Gang of Chicago Its Irish origin was now lead by a Minnesota Polish man. Bugs Moran was a notorious Mobster that came to be single head of his gang when the tragic death of his leaders and co-leaders, he was in a bloody war with Al Capone and his South Side Gang, and he was the target of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre that Al Capone had set up for him. Bugs Moran the surviving leader of the North Side gang after the many brutal murders that came by the hands of Al Capone and his South Side gang. In 1926 Moran became the sole leader of the gang after the “Death

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Two of the men, dressed as police and pretending to conduct an ordinary raid, entered the garage and lined the associates of Irish gang boss George “Bugs” Moran’s up against the wall. Two others in civilian clothes followed with machine guns and, along with the “police,” opened fire on the seven men, pounding seventy bullets into them in what became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The murders were never pinned on Capone, who claimed to be in Florida at the time. When public relief funds became scarce in Chicago during the Great Depression, Capone, playing up his sense of community, fed three thousand unemployed per day. In six weeks, he donated twenty thousand meals at a cost of $12,000.

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The massacre was ordered by Capone and carried out by two hitmen and left seven dead (Lyman & Potter,

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That is one of Al Capone's many stepping stones to becoming one of the FBI’s most wanted. Al Capone soon was given control of the mob because the leader was wounded in an assassination attempt. Al Capone’s mob soon was widely known for their violence. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on February 14, 1929 was when seven members of the

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The 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre led to general uneasyness about Thompson's alliance with Al Capone. The massacre was an attempt on killing Bugs Moran, the new leader of the North Siders. The killers had rented an apartment across the street from Moran's headquarters at 2122 North Clark Street, to monitor Moran's movements. On the morning of Thurday, 14. Ferbruary, 1929, Capone's men disguised their selves as police that were about to do a "raid".

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Capone knew of his and had lookouts across the street. One of them thought they saw Moran himself and told the other members who were nearby. They arrived in a police car and police uniforms and pretended to be raiding the warehouse. They “lined the seven men inside up against a brick wall, and then raked them with machine-gun fire and shotgun blasts” but to bystanders, with the men in uniform, it seemed like it was normal police action during an arrest (Morrow). He was never

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The plan was to get a bootlegger to lure Bugs Moran and his gang to a back alley where Capone 's men would dress like police officers and take the gangs guns then open fire and kill everyone. Just one small hiccup. Bugs Moran saw the Cop car before anyone else and ran away before capone 's men could kill him. Capone being smart planned his vacation and left when this was happening but the police and the media knew it was his planning. This made Capone famous.

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He wasn't one of them who shoot, but he was probably the one who ordered them. The case never got solved, and no one was ever put in jail for it. Actually Capone never got charged for murder, because he payed the police and he always took care of witnesses. The first time he got arrested was in May in 1929, for carrying a concealed weapon (a hided weapon, that were illegal) in Philadelphia, and he carried illegal, because he had to get the gun checked and get confirmed as a legal gun.

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Al Capone was born in Brooklyn New York in 1899. He was born to poor immigrant parents. Al Capone went on to be the most infamous gangster in history. He was the fourth of seven sons and two daughters. He was one of the most feared mob bosses.

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In what has since been tagged as the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,” four killers from Al “Scarface” Capone gang, disguised as police officers, entered the building from where his rival gangster Bugs Moran ruled Chicago’s North Side. Seven of Bugs capos were lined up against a wall and gunned down. Bugs was fortunate enough not to be around. Moran and Capone were at each other’s throats to lord it over Windy City’s criminal kingdom, as a result of which both criminal enterprises suffered many depredations and killings inflicted by the other side. At about.

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It wasn’t unlikely for a bar owner to be forced into buying from Capone from the use of violence. Capone became obsessed with fame and money. He would shoot down anyone who disagreed with his ways without even looking back. His lack of hesitation caused the deaths of around seven hundred Chicago citizens, and the most brutal massacre that Chicago had ever seen. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was an event where Capone sent some of his men to mow down one of his bigger enemies, Bugs Moran.

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But his downfall started on The Saint Valentine Massacre. This was an attempt to kill the new leader of NSG, Bugs Moran. Capone rented an apartment across the road of NSGs headquarters to see all their movements, and habits. Lookouts signaled for gunmen disguised as police to start an attack on the building.

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It was 1920 in America and new amendment had been added to the constitution. It was called Prohibition. Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to sell, produce,import and consume alcohol. Many crimes occurred in 1920 that were alcohol related, so it was thought that if alcohol was banned, then crime rates would drop. How very wrong they were.

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He started his bootleg business very young, he started to build up his business to become more successful This did cause some of his men to die or get injured very bad. Al Capone and his men did not cooperate with the police. But they did not care Al Capone was the best man there was in there eyes. They also did not want to get on his bad side. If they did they were destined to die.

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According to the police report about 200 bullets were scattered on the floor of the warehouse, making this event one of the bloodiest act of gang violence in the 20s. Out of the seven gang members killed, two of them were Moran’s best assassins Frank and Peter Gusenberg. There was only one survivor, Bug Moran. When Moran arrived at the warehouse he saw the four hitmen disguised as police officers enter the building. Expecting it was a raid he left the premises.

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