The efforts of Ness and his team had a serious impact on Capone's operations ; the main task of the Untouchables was to deprive Capone of the income sources for the graft payments that were his greatest protection, with an ancillary concern being the maintenance of public awareness of the federal government's activity against Capone.

He made his headquarters at Chicago's Lexington Hotel ; after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, it was nicknamed " Capone's Castle ".

Capone's lookouts likely mistook one of Moran's men for Moran himself – probably Albert Weinshank, who was the same height and build.

Since it was common knowledge that Moran was hijacking Capone's Detroit-based liquor shipments, police focused their attention on the Purple Gang.

A terrified Waller realized he was the " surprise guest " at Capone's birthday party, and took comfort that the gangsters didn't intend to kill him.

After Al Capone's 1931 conviction for tax evasion and prostitution, Lansky saw that he too was vulnerable to a similar prosecution.

In April 1986, Rivera hosted the syndicated special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, an ill-conceived adventure where Rivera excavated what he had been told was the site of Al Capone's buried treasure trove.

In November 1939, his father was shot to death, most likely by Al Capone's gunmen.

The first was an attempt on Capone's life.

Another North Sider, Al Weinshank, was misidentified as Moran by one of Capone's lookouts, who signaled for the attack to begin.

In a move reminiscent of Al Capone's infamous conviction for tax evasion, Aiuppa was convicted in 1966 for the unlawful possession and transportation of mourning doves across state lines.

The Grand Terrace was controlled by Al Capone-so Hines became Capone's " Mr Piano Man " with the Grand Terrace upright piano soon replaced by a white $ 3, 000 Bechstein grand.

The weekly series first began broadcasting on October 1959, with the plotline commencing from the power struggle within the mob to establish the new mob boss in Capone's absence ( for the purpose of the TV series, the new boss was Frank Nitti, although this was contrary to fact ).

As a young reporter he was first on the scene of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre when Al Capone's gang gunned down several members of the rival Bugs Moran gang.

Capone's legitimate business was a pasticceria ( an Italian-style cafe serving coffee and pastries ) in Brooklyn.

Police said the assailant was an associate of Capone's in the Plasterers Union who had personal grievances with him.

" Machine Gun " Jack McGurn ( July 3, 1905 – February 15, 1936 ), born Vincenzo Antonio Gibaldi, was an Italian-American mobster and key member of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.

One of Al Capone's top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all strong-arm and ' muscle ' operations.

Al Capone's family lived nearby, and Nitti was friends with Capone's older brothers and their criminal gang ( the Navy Street Boys ).

Nitti was one of Capone's top lieutenants, trusted for his leadership skills and business acumen.

* 1929 – Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

Public outrage over the St. Valentine's Day Massacre marked the beginning of the end to Capone's influence in Chicago.

This war continued until the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Capone's final attempt to kill Moran.

This begins a five year gang war between the North Side Gang, under Hymie Weiss, against Al Capone's Chicago Outfit that would end with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929.

Although Moran suffered a heavy blow, he still managed to keep control of his territory until the early 1930s, when control passed to the Chicago Outfit under Frank Nitti, who had taken control of the Capone organization after Capone's conviction for income tax evasion.

Sullivan is rejected when asking Capone's associate Frank Nitti ( Stanley Tucci ) and Rooney is aware of the meeting.

However, that changed in June 1935 when Alterie was forced to testify against Ralph " Bottles " Capone, Al Capone's brother, on a tax evasion charge.

O ' Banion's murder began a five-year gang war between the North Side Gang under O ' Banion, then under Hymie Weiss, then under Vincent " The Schemer " Drucci ( and later under George " Bugs " Moran ), and Al Capone's Chicago Outfit, that probably started when O ' Banion swindled Outfit head Johnny Torrio out of half-a-million dollars when O ' Banion sold Torrio a Prohibition brewery O ' Banion knew was going to be raided by the authorities.

After several attempts on his life, Tintin meets Capone's rival, the devious Bobby Smiles, who heads the Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago ( GSC ) who tries to persuade Tintin to work for him, but Tintin declines.

* January 6-Theodore Anton, a restaurant manager above Al Capone's Hawthorne Inn, is kidnapped and later killed by the rival North Side Gang.

The organized corruption included the bribing of Chicago Mayor William " Big Bill " Hale Thompson, and Capone's gang operated largely free from legal intrusion.

With the end of the Castellammarese War in 1931, Reles ' and Maione's gangs developed into a network of contract killers that became known as Murder, Inc .. Albert Anastasia, a patron of Capone's restaurant, persuaded the two gang leaders that they could make a lot of money by working together for the Cosa Nostra.

In the early morning hours of December 26, 1925, White Hand gang boss Richard " Pegleg " Lonergan and a few of his men were attacked at Brooklyn's Adonis Club by a handful of Yale's men and a visiting Al Capone ( Capone's son Sonny had just had an operation for a mastoid infection in New York ).

Accardo also claimed that he was one of the gunmen who murdered Brooklyn, New York gang boss Frankie Yale, again by Capone's orders to settle a dispute.

Ricca rose very quickly in the gang ranks, frequently serving as Capone's emissary to the East Coast gangs.

This gang was so successful it was eventually willingly taken in and made a part of Capone's organization by the end of Prohibition.

* July 1, 1928-New York City gangster Frankie Yale was gunned-down, in New York City, by alleged Al Capone mob members after Yale had tried to take over Chicago's Unione Siciliana for his own purposes, and because Capone found out that Yale was stealing Capone's liquor shipments and then selling them back to him.

Both men were personal friends of Capone as well as the head of the Unione Siciliana, the base of Capone's power.

In earlier days, Nitti had been one of Capone's trusted personal bodyguards, but as he rose in the organization, Nitti's business instinct dictated that he must personally avoid the " dirty work "— that was what the hitmen were paid for.

Nitti got down to business almost immediately ; he summoned those close to Capone to a conference, outlining how things were going to operate in Capone's absence, with him as head.

Frankie La Porte, being Sicilian and having the ability to work in confidence with New York gangsters Joe Bonanno and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, who were also Sicilian, is believed to have been Capone's connection to the Commission.

With a thriving red light district during those years ( though modest compared to the activity which existed in the first two decades of the 20th century ), Terre Haute had gambling and prostitution operations that were attractive to visitors of Capone's “ caliber .” A biography of Benjamin “ Scatman ” Crothers seems to be the source of the story that Capone stayed in Terre Haute, but this can neither be confirmed nor denied.