Al Capone, the notorious gangster of all time caught for tax evasion

His name is her synonym and gangsters. Few “nonics” enjoyed Capone’s glamour and political and judicial connections that became America’s No. 1 boss in organized crime mainly at the time of Prohibition. The legendary history of the notorious Al Capone and his “golden” jobs with the mafia have been immortalized a multitude of times in cinema and literature but most aspects of it continue to be covered by the paleness of his dark myth. The great boss of the Chicago underworld managed to climb the highest scales of the American mob but stepped on it from where he did not wait and ended up a prisoner, but a zambrich, in Alcatraz in 1931 for tax irregularities! Very quickly he became the lord of everything and managed to control all illegal activities of the time: smuggling alcohol, pimping, betting. Named after the terror of rival gangs and a real headache for police authorities, Al Capone was never convicted of murder and if he got into jail, he owes it to a tax evasion conviction. The story of the “Signed” Alfonso “Al” Gabriele Capone is born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, within a family of Italian immigrants. It was the fourth of the total nine children. At 14 he leaves school, after having already entered the cycles of illegality and is a member of gangs. Capone will meet the notorious gangster Johnny Torrio, his crime mentor, the one who will teach him the tricks of having a permanent front when you work in illegality. Torrio will put teen Capone in his boys’ gang (James Street Boys), who will soon climb into the Manhattan Five Points gang! In 1917 18-year-old Capone was found at the nightclub of mobster Frankie Yale and will get a job. There he also acquired the scars on his left cheek, which gave him the nickname “Scarface” (Scarface). Cause was a bold comment about the sister of a regular, who did not hesitate to carve his cheek. The nickname loathed it, so in the photographs it always showed the right side of his face, so that the marks from the lens could be hidden. Whenever he had to report to the scars, he said he was injured in a World War I battle. Torrio had expanded his activities to Chicago and in 1919 he called Capone near him. He was probably the ruthless Capone – or Frankie Yale, in another version – who took Torrio’s boss out of the way, “noon” Jim Colosimo, in 1920, wide open the way for Torrio’s hegemony to organized crime in Chicago. Capone will be number two in the gang leadership. In 1925 Torrio retired from his throne, after an assassination attempt, and a new “tzar” was now Capone who took over the reins of the criminal operation. Capone taking advantage of Prohibition managed to multiply his profits and become one of the most powerful gangsters in the United States, perhaps all time. In 1927 his fortune was estimated at $100,000,000 by checking bets, clubs, brothels, etc. He did not even hesitate to bribe Chicago mayor William Heilly Thompson, whom he even helped get elected for the second time in the 1927 election. Meanwhile, she’s married to Irish Mary Cafflin and has had a son. Despite his notorious reputation, Capone never armed, although he did not go anywhere without at least two bodyguards. He only traveled at night and incognito, restricting his daily movements only when it was absolutely necessary. But he had already been targeted by tax authorities and in May of the same year the Supreme Court concluded that he had to pay taxes on his illegal activities. Capone took his family and went to Florida where he bought a huge area, which he began to radically renovate. This enabled the IRS to closely monitor Capone’s expenses. With Capone out of Chicago, the situation escaped control and outbursts of violence were now a daily phenomenon. His other families stole the job and Frankie Yale’s ever partner was now opposite him. The Valentine’s Day Massacre On February 14, 1929, it was intended to commit the crime left in history as the . Men of Capone, disguised as police officers, stormed a Clark Street garage 2222 in order to kill or even warn George Moran, leader of the Northern Chicago gang. Seven people were in the garage at the time, who thought it was a police raid. George Moran was across the street preparing to cross the street when he saw Capone’s men disguised as police officers. Seeing them, he fled. But his six men didn’t have the same luck after being filled with at least 150 bullets. In addition to the six murdered there was another, unrelated to the gang, friend of Moran’s. After this incident the police began systematic efforts to arrest Capone. In May 1929 he was arrested for illegal gunship, sentenced to two years in prison but released nine months later, on March 16, 1930, due to good conduct. Meanwhile, procedures had begun to bring him to trial on the occasion of the Valentine massacre. But the charges fell into the void and Capone was simply called on to pay a $5,000 financial guarantee for disrespect to the court. In 1930 he was the most dangerous criminal in Chicago. “The massacre of seven people in broad daylight raises the question about Chicago: Is it really helpless?” . This is how the Chicago Tribune welcomed the Valentine’s Day Massacre on the February 15, 1929 leaf, simply relaying a question that was in the mouth of all citizens. Public opinion was shocked by the brutality of execution and also the outspoken blow, brought great pressure on police officials, who had to at all costs resolve the case. Investigations were drastic. In the wake of the blow, Capone had now been targeted by American President Herbert Hoover who wanted him at all costs in prison! At the same time, the police began to break up their union, confiscating distilleries, equipment and destroying valuable alcohol, causing millions of damage… On 13 March 1931 the federal court completed its investigation into gangster’s finances for the period 1925-1929, accusing him of 22 tax evasion cases now. Capone and 68 members of his spiral were charged with 5,000 separate violations of the law. Capone’s lawyers came to a secret deal with the government and the “Godfather” pleaded guilty to eating 2 to 5 years. Underground negotiations reached the press and then public outcry changed things. On October 6, 1931, 14 detectives accompanied Al Capone to the Federal Court, but he appeared optimistic. And why not? He had bribed the jury, and he knew he’d go soft. He was wrong Once the judge entered the courtroom, the first thing he did was order the jury to change! “Signed” was found guilty of 7 tax evasion cases. The judge sentenced him to 11 years in prison, a $50,000 fine, and another $30,000 for court expenses. In August 1934, Al Capone was transferred from Atlanta state prisons to the notorious rock of Alcatraz, San Francisco. The days he enjoyed privileges in prison belonged to the old days. His health had been burdened by the syphilis that had been distressing him for years. His sentence dropped to 6.5 years and came out due to good conduct and after paying $37,617,51 in November 1939. After his release and with his health quite burdened he retired to his mansion in Florida. There he will leave his last breath on January 25, 1947, from a heart attack.