Al Capone was a legendary gangster. It might have been because of the amount of cash
his mob pulled in every year. Al Capone was one the most remarkable gangsters in all of history,
but why was he so great?
According to the History Channel website, Capone was even in a gang as a
child. It says in the article” Capone belonged to a street gang as a boy and dropped
out of school in sixth grade, later joining the Five Points Gang in Manhattan and
working as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn, a Coney Island bar owned
by mobster Frankie Yale.”Although, when Al went to jail he was only convicted of tax
fraud. However, the authorities did not do enough digging to find him guilty of all the
murders he was behind, or maybe
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After he was found guilty, he was sent to Alcatraz
which was the worst prison in all of America. Capone made an escape attempt, but it
failed. He got released early because he was diagnosed with syphilis. He ended up
dying of a heart attack on January 5th, 1947 (“ Al Capone- Scarface”). According to The University of Michigan's article on Capone, “Alfonsi Capone
came to America as a young child in 1894 with his family, from Naples, just one of
42,977 Italians immigrated that year. His family moved to Brooklyn, where Capone
eventually made his stomping grounds for the beginning of a life of crime. As a
teenager, Capone was recruited by Johnny Torrio, one of the most successful
gangsters on the East Coast, for whom Capone did small favors and errands. In his
early adolescence, Capone contracted Syphilis, likely from one of a number of the
neighborhood prostitutes, he slept with. The symptoms disappeared a few weeks
after the contraction, Al assumed the disease had been cured somehow.” When
he was a child one of the reasons he dropped out might have been because he
could have been expelled for hitting a teacher in the 6th grade. When Al was
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According to the History Channel website, Capone went to prison in May of
1931 for tax fraud. According to the History Channel article on Al Capone” In
response to the public outcry over the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, President
Herbert Hoover ordered the federal government to step up its efforts to get Capone
on income-tax evasion. The Supreme Court ruled in 1927 that income gained on
illegal activities were taxable, which gave the government a strong case for
prosecuting Capone. On June 5, 1931, the U.S. government finally indicted Capone
on 22 counts of income-tax evasion.” He was in Federal prison for 2 and a half years
until he was caught bribing guards and sent to Alcatraz. He died on January 25, 1947.
According to the History Channel” Capone had contracted syphilis as a young
man, and he now suffered from neurosyphilis, causing dementia. After serving
six-and-a-half years, Capone was released in 1939 to a mental hospital in
Baltimore, where he remained for three years. His health rapidly declining,
Capone lived out his last days in Miami with his wife. He died of cardiac arrest
on January 25, 1947” ( Al Capone - Scarface