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Outlaw of the Month - March

3/27/2012

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AL CAPONE
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Al Capone, aka "Scarface", was born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. His neighborhood was pretty tough and as a child he was a member of two gangs: the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Al dropped out of school when he was fourteen, despite being intelligent. Once he joined the Five Points gang of Manhattan, he became a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn. It was here that Al received his facial scars when he insulted a female patron and her brother attacked him.
Al moved to Chicago and began bootlegging operations and soon after became boss  of his "organization" Al showed his intelligence by reorganizing the infrastructure of the organization and was soon raking in $100,000,000 per year. Capone was continually opening night clubs, brothels, race tracks, and other vice businesses. Violence towards rival gangs of Al's was common. The most famous of which was the St. Valentines day massacre February 14, 1926, when Al had four of his men dressed as police officers gun down seven members of rival George Moran's gang. Despite his apparent savage nature,Capone was a pretty fair individual. During the depression, Capone opened housing for the homeless and soup kitchens, giving much at his own expense. By 1930, Al was ranked as public enemy number one. The government desperately wanted to arrest him but could not find any charges to make stick. They finally found a way by making it clear that illegal income from gambling was taxable, and since Al would not claim illegal income he did not pay taxes either. He was sentenced to eleven and a half years in prison. Al's first prison term was in Atlanta federal prison and began in 1932. He was later moved to Alcatraz and was released on November 16, 1939. While in prison he contracted syphilis and suffered dementia. Although at home now, his condition had deteriorated to the point where he couldn't run the crime organization anymore. He had a stroke on January 21, 1947, but survived. On the 24th of January, pneumonia set in and he died of cardiac arrest on the 25th. Capone was buried in Chicago, one of the most notorious gangsters of all time.

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