He was the King of organized crime in the roaring twenties he ruled most of the crimes in Chicago, gambling, bootlegging, prostitution etc. but the law could never prove that he was guilty of those crimes so how did the famous Italian mafia end up serving prison time?
Al Capone was born on the January 17, 1899; he was a famous gangster who gained fame from his 7 years reign as a crime boss
Well in source E we are given the idea that Al Capone was sent to jail all because an accountant decided to go through his financial papers and found evidence that was enough to put Al Capone away for several years 17 years to be exact. Source C and D gives you an idea of how many crimes he committed and in source D you can see that he was responsible of the famous ‘St Valentine Massacre’ that took place on the 14th of February 1929. Even though it was pretty obvious that he was the mastermind behind the massacre there was not enough proof that he was guilty; it was swept under the carpet due to Al Capone’s great way of getting into the law officials heads and being able to bribe them. It also took long for them to gather enough evidence to send him away, source B tells you us that early bureau (FBI) couldn’t get their case to stick even though they had enough evidence on the infamous ‘St Valentine Massacre’ to put him
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Al Capone and his gang members tried bribing the man but he refused the bribery; he was able to come up with enough evidence of tax invasion committed by the gangster Al Capone to build up a valid case. When the case began on the 6th of October 1929 Al Capone saw that he stood no chance of getting away with this, so he attempted to bribe the jury not knowing that the judge would change the entire jury on the day he received his final verdict. The judge replaced the jury with common famers who did not know anything about the