Al Capone

1899 – 1947

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who served as boss of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era, building a bootlegging empire estimated to generate $100 million annually. He orchestrated the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of February 14, 1929, in which seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang were lined up and machine-gunned in a Lincoln Park garage, and was implicated in dozens of additional murders of rival gangsters, journalists, and witnesses. He was convicted of federal income-tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to eleven years, serving time at Atlanta Penitentiary and Alcatraz before neurosyphilis-induced dementia ended his criminal career.

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