AL CAPONE

EARLY LIFE

• Born Alfphonse Gabriel Capone
• Born and raised in Brookline New York
• 1 of 9 children
• Dropped out of school at 14- hitting a teacher

EARLY CRIME LIFE

• Part of numerous gangs when he was young
• Employed by famous gangster Frankie Yale- Five Points Gang
• Received three scars on his face from a bar fight
• Earned him name "Scareface" even though he hated it
• The attacker would later become his body gaurd

EARLY CRIME LIFE

• Was married at 19 to Mae Josephine Coughlin
• Had his first child one month later: Albert Francis Capone
• Moved to Chicago in 1923
• Became involved bootlegging
• Mentored by Johnny Torrio

CAPONE IN CHICAGO

• The Capone-Torrio crime family v. Genna crime family
• Afterbeing arrested and released from prison then injured in a fight, Torrio left for Italy
• Gave Capone full power
• Capone's gang earned over $100 million a year- gambling, prostitution, bootlegging
• His wealth and power allowed him to control political and law enforcements in Chicago

CAPONE IN CHICAGO

• Ran his operations out of Lexington Hotel
• Nicknamed "Capone's Castle"
• Many assassination attempts by North Side Gang
• Viewed as a celebrity

ST. VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE

• February 14 1929
• 7 people killed in a garage in the Lincoln Park neighborhood
• Believed that "The Outfit" was behind it
• Recruited by Capone to dress as police and raid North Side Gang
• The faux cops lined up the men after the "raid" and shot them

IMPRISONMENT

• FBI couldn't get him for gang related activity
• Convicted him for tax evasion
• Capone tried to bribe the jurors but was caught
• In 1931 he was sentenced to 11 years for three counts of tax evasion
• Sent to Atlanta US Penitentiary in 1932 then Alcatraz in '34

LATER LIFE AND DEATH

• Spent the last year of his term in prisom hospital suffering from syphilis
• He was paroled in 1939
• Capone was not involved in organized crime after he was released
• Spent his last years in his Florida mansion while his brain deteriorated
• Within 4 days, he had a stroke, contracted pneumonia, a heart attack and then died

WORKS CITED

• Chicago Historical Society, "Al Capone", chicagohs.org. 1999. Web. 17 May 2014
• FBI, "Famous Criminals: Al Capone". Fbi.gov. N.d. Web. 17 May 2014
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• "Al Capone". Wikipedia.org. 14 May 2014. Web. 17 May 2014