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Al Capone is famous for saying, “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” The 18th amendment gave movement to a stronger and more powerful group of criminals in the united states and forever change how the government fought organized crime. There were many different gangsters, but the most popular were Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and Lester Nelson. Al capone was one of the greatest gangsters in american history. Al Capone was born in brooklyn, new york january 17, 1899. Capone and his family lived in a poor house in new york around the brooklyn navy yard (biography.com). Al capone and his family moved to a different part of New york opening young Capone to crime (biography.com). Capone went to a catholic school and was a pretty smart kid but go kicked out at the age of 14 for hitting his teacher (biography.com). Al Capone met a guy named johnny torrio who showed him the ways of being a respectable gangster. “In 1925 Torrio retired, and Capone became crime czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by the gunning down of rivals and rival gangs.”(biography.com). Capones first big job was to get in the election in Cicero and move everything over to …show more content…

Lester started crime at a young age,”Nelson’s early criminal career included stealing tires, running stills, bootlegging, and armed robbery” (fbi.gov). Lester got married to Helen Wawzynak and they gave birth to a daughter and son (biography.com). Lester went to prison for a year for bank robbery. Lester then met up with John Dillinger and they did all sorts of crime from robbery and bootlegging , they hid together from the law and murdered people together. Lester got into a legendary gun fight with the fbi, ending up getting shot a lot and escaping somehow but ended up dying from injuries on november 27,

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A little more unorthodox perhaps, but a very effective way to learn the tricks of the trade, Al began to run errands for Giovanni “Johnny” Torrio (“Al Capone Arrest Records”). Torrio gave Capone small jobs, and Capone received a small amount of pocket money as well as hands-on lessons about the gangster trade (“Al Capone Arrest Records”). Torrio was the lieutenant in the notorious Five Points Gang, and was Al Capone’s major mentor in the gangster business (“Al Capone Arrest Records”). As Al did more and more work for Torrio, Torrio began to trust Al more and more. Some of the other jobs that Torrio had Al do were bartending and bouncing at brothels, as well as running a smaller brothel (“Alcatraz Historical Society”).

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