Al Capone's Accomplishments

He was feared by many, but people did not fear Al Capone himself: they feared what he could do more than anything. Capone was ruthless, just like when he ordered the assassination of seven rivals. Al Capone earned the title of the most infamous gangster in American history because of his gang life like by ordering assassinations and running a bootlegging empire (“Al” History). Capone was a family man; he married an Irish-Catholic woman named Mae Josephine Coughlin(“Al” History). They had a son named Albert Francis “Sonny” Capone(Al). Al Capone was feared, loved, and everything in between, a family man and career criminal with a good life, but all of this ended his thuggery with something so simple one would not have guessed it. What ended Capone

As a kid, he was badly cut up on his face and was given the nick-name Scarface(“Al” chicagohs). Unlike many gangsters of the twentieth century, Capone was not a poor immigrant who used crime to make a living; he was from a great family who was respected by many. Capone’s schooling was not an easy ride for him at all; he went to a brutal Catholic school where there was violence that turned Capone into a promising young student even though when he was at school when he was fourteen years old he hit his teacher and got kicked out of school and never went back. When Al Capone was young, there were few signs that he would one day become America’s most infamous gangster even though he was in a street gang when he was just a young boy(“Al” Biography). Before he started his extraordinary life of crime Al Capone had just normal jobs when he was a kid like a clerk in a candy store, a bowling alley pin boy, and at one point he worked in a book bindery as a cutter (“Al”

Like one when President Herbert Hoover said,” Have we got this Capone fellow yet? I want that man in jail”(Al” Biography) Then Hoover ordered the federal government to try and catch Capone on his unpaid income taxes. Capone was not caught on the countless murders and the bootlegging that he committed, no the thing at brought Al Capone down was all the income taxes that he never paid. In 1931 in the federal court house in chicago Al Capone’s trial was held. He walked into the courtroom in his multi colored suit and smiled at all the jurors in the courtroom(Linder). He was sat down and the trial began but during this trial he was accused of twenty three charges and only was guilty of five(Latson). It was not until June that Capone pled guilty to only tax evasion charges and prohibition charges(“Al” fbi). Capone sentence was eleven years in jail he also had a 50,000 dollar fine he owed 7,692 dollars in legal fees and to top all of that off he owed 215,000 dollars in back taxes(“Al” fbi). Capone spent his jail time in Alcatraz prison which also he was one of the first federal prisoners in Alcatraz(“Al” fbi). Capone got off early on good behavior and only had to serve a sentence of just six years instead of eleven. Capone was released from prison while he was suffering from paresis which was caused by untreated syphilis. Capone spent his final days in Florida. Capone died on January 25, 1947 due to