Takeover for TorrioĪfter an attempted assassination of Capone's friend and mentor Torrio, the frail man left his legacy of nightclubs, whorehouses, gambling dens, breweries and speakeasies to Capone.Ĭapone's next mission involved bootleg whiskey. Due to a lack of witnesses, Capone got away with the murder, but the publicity surrounding the case gave him a notoriety that he never had before.
He eventually won office in Cicero, but not before his brother Frank had been killed in a shootout with Chicago's police force.Ĭapone prided himself on keeping his temper under wraps, but when friend and fellow hood Jack Guzik was assaulted by a small-time thug, Capone tracked the assailant down and shot him dead in a bar. Between them, they took leading positions within Cicero city government in addition to running brothels, gambling clubs and racetracks.Ĭapone kidnapped opponents' election workers and threatened voters with violence. With the assistance of his brothers Frank (Salvatore) and Ralph, Capone infiltrated the government and police departments. His wife Teresa was pregnant and already bringing up two sons: two-year-old son Vincenzo and infant son Raffaele.Ī crackdown on racketeering in Chicago meant that Capone's first mobster job was to move operations to Cicero, Illinois. He was 30 years old, educated and from Naples, where he had earned a living as a barber. His father, Gabriele, was one of the thousands of Italians who arrived in New York in 1894.
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Capone was from a respectable, professional family. Many New York gangsters in the early 20th Century came from impoverished backgrounds, but this was not the case for the Capone. Early Life and EducationĬapone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate. Who Was Al Capone?Īl Capone was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. All I did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular.”Īl Capone, also known as "Scarface," rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit, an organized crime syndicate during the Prohibition era. My booze has been good and my games on the square.” “All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people. Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.” “Public service is my motto. Whoever heard of anybody being run out of Los Angeles that had money?” “I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. I have a lot of money to spend that I made in Chicago. Nobody's really on the legit when it comes down to cases.” “I thought that you folks liked tourists. What do you do? Do you sit back and let him go over the road without trying to help him? You'd be a yellow dog if you did. Your brother or your father gets in a jam. She offered to pay my passage to London if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with.” “Nobody's on the legit. I guess maybe I owe the government this stretch in jail, anyway.” “Today I got a letter from a woman in England. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.” “They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.” “Sure, and some of our best judges use my stuff."” “If the United States government thinks it can clean up Chicago by sending me to jail, well, it's all right with me. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. “I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat.
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