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Al Capone's Life And Accomplishments

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Al Capone started off as a teenage thug, but became an intricate businessman who had immense control throughout Chicago. He was seen as a celebrity due to his constant appearance in the media. Capone was born in Brooklyn in 1899 to an Italian family. At age fourteen, he started his involvement in gangs when he was kicked out of school for hitting a teacher. As a result, he started hanging out with boys in gangs and got a reputation as a cruel enforcer. Capone moved to Chicago to avoid a murder investigation in New York and there he joined Torrio’s gang. Once Capone was boss, he had only one enemy, the North Side Gang, who tried to kill him in 1926. Therefore, Capone retaliated in 1929 with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Seven members of …show more content…

He was born in 1882 to a highly regarded Jewish family in New York City. At an early age, he loved numbers which led him to be intrigued by gambling. He was so intrigued by gambling that at sixteen he dropped out of school and started focusing all his time on gambling. He eventually made an adequate amount of money which resulted in him becoming a loan shark and in the 1900s crime became his sole business. He was nicknamed “the Brain” and “the Big Bankroll” due to him being the brains of an operation while others did his illicit work and for always having a huge role of cash with him. Rothstein was the first to open up a casino in Manhattan and ran a successful bootlegging enterprise. He also was involved in fixing horse races where he profited enormously. To help run and teach the youth about the gambling business, Rothstein became a mentor to multiple boys especially to Meyer Lansky. Eventually, he moved from the bootlegging and gambling business to the narcotic operation and also became highly influential in labor unions. However, in 1928 Rothstein lost money for the first time due to his deteriorating health. On November 2, 1928, he was shot in a hotel due to his refusal to pay off his debt. Rothstein is remembered for is involvement in the fixed 1919 World Series, the “Black Sox Scandal”. Multiple Chicago White Sox players agreed to a plan created by gamblers. The White

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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre On February 14th, 1929, five of Al Capone’s gangsters murdered seven of George (bugs) Moran’s henchmen, this was called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In the longtime rivalry between Al Capone and Bugs Moran, Al finally got the upper hand by brutally murdering Moran’s henchmen. The feud between Capone and Moran, the battle of Prohibition and the aftermath of the massacre all consisted in the notorious St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The feud between Al and Bugs started in 1925 when Capone took the lead of his South Side gang.

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Al Capone was born on January 17th, 1899 in New York City, New York. He was a Italian Immigrant and which lead to much discrimination and he decided to join a gang. His family lived in a poor Brooklyn tenement. It was a tough place to grow up but it's what made him to the man he was.

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Al Capone’s crime boss “ Torrio” was the one who had mainly influenced Al Capone into the life of crime in the city of chicago and had “Torrio taught Capone the importance of maintaining a respectable front while running a racketeering business” (History) , After some time Torrio had made Al Capone his second, his “right-hand man”. Al Capone had done many different crimes around the city of chicago with had made his name more popular and notorious around the city, mostly including bootlegging, prostitution and gambling. Al Capone was very much aware of gang war over territories in chicago, so he would often negotiate with rival gangs for territory. Later on one day his boss Torrio was returning back from a shopping trip from the market and was ambushed and had got shot several times.

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Capone at the age of 14 dropped out and eventually met his partner and mentor the infamous Johnny Torrio. Giving him the greatest influence on what the gangster lifestyle was all about. Teaching Capone that he should remain respectable whilst running a illegal and dangerous business. Thus starting it all from his first murder for a friend that was assaulted in the street by a thug, shooting him dead in a bar. Another of Capone’s missions was bootlegging whiskey from the trail in Chicago.

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When Capone was arrested it became one of the major accomplishments of the 1930s. Al Capone’s childhood led to what he became. As a kid Capone joined two “kid gangs” called the Brooklyn Rippers and Forty

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Al capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in the country in the 1920’s. As the prohibition of alcohol was going on he sought to gain a great deal of money by selling alcohol. From 1925 to 1930 Al Capone controlled Speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries. He made approximately 100,000,000 a year from this. Although he was famous for his killings and crime he did many things for the poor.

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Moran was now trying to kill Capone's hit man Jack MgGurn who was also known as "Machine Gun" Jack MgGurn. Capone and MgGurn decided to take action by trying to kill Moran on February 14, 1929, MgGurn's gunmen were dressed up as policemen and they killed seven of Moran's men, but not Moran who managed to escape because he was told of the danger before they got to the garage where the shoot out happened. This event came to be known as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre. " After the massacre Capone was named "Public Enemy Number One." Due to the massacre it caused the federal government to make their efforts greater to try and put Capone behind bars.

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Al Capone was a very feared and notorious mobster. Born into the world on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Al Capone’s past wasn’t very bright, as a matter of fact, Al Capone’s school was horrible. He didn’t have much education, he dropped out at age 14 due to whacking a teacher. While expelled, Al Capone met the infamous Johnny Torrio, who influenced Al Capone to join his gang.

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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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Valentine's Day Massacre was one of Capone's biggest, most notorious, bloodletting of all. His biggest rival was Bugs Moran. He had intervened with so many of Capone's deliveries that Capone decided to take him out. He hired killers and they devised a plan to carry this out and get away with it. On February 14, 1929, Moran had a huge shipment of Canadian whiskey coming in and a few of his members of the gang were awaiting the shipment to come in.

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Capone kept bootlegging and making money. Everything was going good and Capone had everything under control besides the few gangs that kept on trying to take his turf. So eventually Capone got tired of it and ordered them to get executed. Thus leading to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

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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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Bryce Batche Ms. Hogue Composition 8 15 February 2017 Al Capone Many people think Capone got the nickname “Scarface” from a deadly battle or a heroic event. Surprisingly, he got it in a quarrel over a girl. Everybody knew who Al Capone was.

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Who was Al Capone? Who was Al Capone? Alphonse Capone, who became known as “Scarface” was born on January 17, 1899. His parents, along with two brothers immigrated from Italy in 1894.

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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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