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Al Capone's Accomplishments

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Do you know how difficult it is to be named public enemy number one? Well it is pretty difficult unless you were the famous 1920’s gangster Al Capone. Capone earned that title while bedridden in Florida for a crime that happened in Chicago. Though he is hands down the most popular gangster of all time.He had a normal early life, then he went on to join gangs, he then started to run many operations with the gangs, the St. Valentines massacre, and a just prison sentence. What many don’t know about him though is that his childhood didn’t show any signs that he would become the most famous gangster of all time. Al Capone had a pretty average childhood. Born in Brooklyn on January 17 1899, he was the son of two Italian immigrants. He was a good …show more content…

They became pretty good friends. Though in 1909 Johnny left Chicago and Capone yet they still remained friends. Capone moved on with his life and got a job at a munitions factory. There were a few small street gangs that he was in but they were all pretty boring with no real action. Then Johnny introduced Capone to his friend and gangster Frankie Yale. Yale then decided to get Capone a job as a bartender at the Harvard Inn. This job is where he would receive his nickname scarface when he made an indecent comment to a lady and her brother cut him across the face leaving 3 scars. He then married Mae Coughlin at the age of 19 after having a child a few weeks …show more content…

He advised Capone to lay low and not bring public attention to the business now that he was the owner of it. Completely ignoring his advice Capone moved the operations to a suite in the Metropole Hotel in downtown Chicago. He lived an extremely rich life with all of the newspapers estimating he was bringing in 100 million a year. The people loved him because he was very public and was seen as a “Robin Hood” figure because of his liquor business. Throughout time his popularity shrunk as his name was being linked with more and more violence. One day people spotted two of Capone's biggest enemies conversing with each other. Capone ordered a hit to kill them both. They killed both of his enemies plus the “Hanging Prosecutor”. The “Hanging Prosecutor” was trying to prosecute him for previous murders and were talking to Capone's enemies at the time. After that the city of Chicago got sick of all the gang violence in their city. The police raided his businesses to try and find some evidence to get him locked up. The only thing they found against him has evidence of tax evasion. This worried Capone and he called a peace meeting between the cities

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Although there have been many gangsters, Al Capone was one of the most notable because he became famous in Chicago during prohibition. He was known to be called “Scarface” because of his scars that were left on his face from a fight. He would also bring violence with other gangsters around Chicago. Al Capone was also known for bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling.

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He grew up living a normal life in Brooklyn, New York unlike other gangsters who lived in poverty but lived in a slum. Living in a ethnically diverse area exposed a young Capone to the different cultures. Still though it was a tough area, where he had to become a man quicker than needed be. His family was the stereotypical italian american family, abiding laws and good working jobs. There really weren’t any big indicators that he would become involved in a life of crime ,and be a target for the rest of his life.

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After Capone’s marriage and birth of his child he wanted to do right by his family and left for Baltimore as a bookkeeper for a construction company, honest job, no illegal activity, only going back to crime and Chicago after the death of his father and the offer of Johnny Torrio. When Capone returned to his life of crime, he used his street smarts and bookkeeping skills to help Torrio’s illegal business operations which led to Torrio promoting Capone to the position of partner. It is rumored that Capone and Frankie Yale killed Torrio’s boss at the time. At one point in Capone’s and Torrio’s criminal career, a mayoral election threatened to jeopardize their business, so they resorted to intimidation and murder to continue on, which led to Capone’s arrest and the brutal murder of his brother Frank. After an attempt on his life by a rival gang, Torrio gave his entire business to Capone and gave him a warning to always keep low profile.

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Capone was known to ruthless as he rose the ranks. When Capone started he was just a bouncer. While he was a bouncer he made a comment to a woman and her brother pulled a knife and cut him. After a while he was sent to Chicago because he wounded a rival gang member. This all led to what Al Capone is known for today.

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On June 5, 1931 they finally achieved it, Capone was guilty of 22 counts of income-tax evasion. Capone tried to escape jail time by trying to bribe and intimidate the jury, but during the last moment the judge switched the jury to an entirely new one. In the end Capone was found guilty and sent to prison for eleven years. Capone was first sent to Atlanta to a federal prison, but was caught bribing the guards so he was sent to famous prison of Alcatraz. After six and a half years of prison Capone was sent to a mental hospital.

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During the 1920’s gang related crime was a serious issue. The leader of all this violence and corruption was a man named Al “Scarface” Capone (“Al Capone”). This organized crime, dehumanization, and corruption, became the ultimate image of Chicago for people throughout the world. He was largely immersed in things like gambling, prostitution, and the illegal sale of liquor. He was not convicted for any of his crimes, even the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929, until he was imprisoned for tax evasion (Horan).

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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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During the 1920’s crime was at an all time high in Chicago due to prohibition and turf wars between rival gangs. One of the most famous gangsters during this time period was Alphonse “Al” Capone. Born in Brooklyn, New York to two poor immigrant parents on January 17, 1899 he grew up being active in two different kid gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. When he got older he started working at different jobs in a candy store, a cutter in a book bindery and a pin boy in a bowling alley.(Chicagohs) When he was a teenager he was recruited by a famous gangster named Johnny Torrio.

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He rose to notoriety as the leader of the Chicago mafia during the Prohibition era. He had a personal fortune estimated at 100 million dollars as the head of the infamous crime syndicate. He was sent to prison in 1934 for tax evasion. He was a significant figure in the world of organized crime. Al Capone was one of the most famous mob bosses, if not “the” most famous.

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Capone was one of both the smartest, and most violent criminal that Chicago, or even the entire country has ever seen. American Decades writes, “During the roaring twenties Capone controlled a multi-million dollar crime organization in Chicago. He gained national recognition for his ruthless business skills and casual use of violence to build his criminal empire.” (“Al Capone” American Decades, 1) Due to his finely tuned skills for running crime, most likely inherited from his mentor Torrio, Capone was able to rise to unbelievable fame.

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After being expelled in 6th grade he decided to drop out of school. During this time Capone started to also joined a street gang called the South Brooklyn Rippers and then later on the Five Point Juniors. During this time, he was able to make association with Johnny Torrio who would later become his boss and his mentor.

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“Renowned as America's first Public Enemy No. 1, Capone came to Chicago in 1919 at the age of twenty and within three years became one of the city's most successful gangsters” (Karamanski). In other words, Al Capone had become in a short time frame become the most dangerous man in Chicago during the 1920s and everyone’s attention was turned towards him. His gang had become the most powerful gang to have ever existed in the city and to do that Al Capone had been able to find ways to stay undetected by the police force and even the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation). Everytime that they came close to catching him he always had an alibi and proof to back up what it was he claimed he was doing or where ever it was that he had claimed to

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He would kill his enemies and friends. Even said, he also killed some of his employers. (Nash 78) The Conferees agreed that Capone would be arrested for carrying a gun and spend a year in jail after what had happened to Moran’s men. After this, Capone bought a whole floor of a hotel and practically took over that hotel on Michigan Avenue.

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When the 18th amendment was passed in 1917, which banned the sale and drinking of alcohol, it was believed to bring only solace to their citizens. Instead crime, especially organized, begun to rise. Infamous mafia bosses such as George “Bugs” Moran, Johnny Torrio and, most importantly, Al Capone. Capone was able to build one of the largest organized crime organizations America had ever seen, and this made him a legend. With the amount of crime he committed in his life he became a legend in American literature because he was an image of a gangster, and writers uses Capone as the prime example for whenever they wrote books about gangs and gangsters.

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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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