He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).

That sort of braggadocio, for that sort of reason, in the view of Torrio and Capone, was a nonsense.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

What the authorities never seemed to grasp was that to a significant group of Americans, Capone was symbolic of a populist hero.

Capone was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion, and sentenced to federal prison.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

During this time, Capone was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio, whom he came to regard as a mentor.

After he inadvertently insulted a woman while working the door at a Brooklyn night club, Capone was attacked by her brother Frank Gallucio ; and his face was slashed three times on the left side.

Capone was called " Snorky " by his closest friends.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

As Capone was under the age of 21, his parents had to consent to the marriage in writing.

Capone was suspected in the murders of Colosimo and two other men.

For Capone, the election victory was also marred by the death of his younger brother Frank at the hands of the police.

In 1925, Torrio was severely injured in an attack by the North Side Gang ; he turned over his business to Capone and returned to Italy.

Al Capone was the most notorious gangster of his generation.

Capone was imprisoned for tax violations and eventually died on January 25, 1947, due to a heart attack and pneumonia.

This massacre was allegedly planned by the Capone mob in retaliation for an unsuccessful attempt by Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter to murder Jack McGurn earlier in the year and for the North Side Gang's complicity in the murders of Pasqualino " Patsy " Lolordo and Antonio " The Scourge " Lombardo – both had been presidents of the Unione Siciliane, the local Mafia, and close associates of Capone.

Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1899 to immigrant parents, Capone was recruited by members of the Five Points Gang in the early 1920s.

The band later recruited Tom Capone ( Beyond / Shelter / Quicksand / etc.

In 1926, Jack " Machine Gun " McGurn, one of the toughest hitmen of Outfit boss Alphonse Capone (" Big Al ," " Scarface Al "), recruited Accardo into his crew in the Outfit.

Over the years, Kelly recruited youths who later became prominent criminals, such as Johnny Torrio, Al Capone and Lucky Luciano.

Torrio was the first to establish his style of racketeering in Chicago, and recruited Capone to join him there.

Capone departed New York for Chicago without his new wife and son, who joined him later.

Capone cried at his brother's funeral and ordered the closure of all the speakeasies in Cicero for a day as a mark of respect.

Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster Al Capone.

* 1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

** American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago.

Bugs Moran's muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs, his takeover of several Capone-owned saloons that he insisted were in his territory, and the general rivalry between Moran and Capone for complete control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging business were probable contributing factors to this incident.

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.

In 1931, Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and was sentenced to eleven years in a Federal institution, plus one year in the Cook County Jail for attempted jury tampering.

Bolton claimed that Capone was furious with him for his mistake ( and the resulting police pressure ) and threatened to kill him, only to be dissuaded by Fred Goetz.

Mrs. Winkeler revealed that her husband and his friends had formed a special crew used by Capone for high-risk jobs.

One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department ’ s long-held theory that Burke, and by extension Al Capone, had been responsible for Yale's death.

The example of alcohol prohibition in the US, which led to huge bootlegging profits for the likes of Al Capone, is often cited.

Bảo Đại had given the Bình Xuyên control of the national police for $ 1, 250, 000 USD, creating a situation that the Americans likened to Chicago under Al Capone in the 1920s.

It was owned by a Jewish gangster, Moe Gale, who some say was a front for Al Capone.

Among the people he performed for was notorious gangster, Al Capone.

Along with its Bathhouse Row, one of downtown Hot Springs ' most noted landmarks is the Arlington Hotel, a favored retreat for Al Capone.

Guests, such as Al Capone, Connie Mack, Babe Ruth, and singer Kate Smith were able to utilize the hotel's airfield for arrival.