Al Capone was a very popular gangster who had five kids; one boy and four girls. Al Capone was a criminal and went to prison numerous times. He had a normal childhood with rough times here and there. The soon-to-be criminal went to a normal public school like any other kid. Al may have looked and sounded normal, but in the end he became a criminal. Al had an average childhood life. He was in a family of nine children and his two parents. He also had two sisters and six other brothers. he also had two poor immigrant parents. Capone went to a public school, but school was hard for him. Al was expelled from school when he was 14 years of age. He went to a Catholic institution but was expelled because he lost his temper with his teacher. She hit him and he hit her back. When Al was a kid there were very few indications that he would venture into world of crime. Capone as a kid didn't seem like a criminal. However, looks can be deceiving. When he got older he brutally assaulted a low-level member of a rival gang and left him for dead. Capone started out as a normal kid, but in the end he came known to the criminal life. …show more content…
He spent 10 months in Philadelphia prison in 1929. He was put in prison after being convicted of possessing a concealed handgun. He was also sentenced to 11 years in prison on October 17th, and was sentenced a week later to 11 years in federal prison. He was fined $50,000 plus $7,692 for court cost, and was held liable for $215,000 plus interest due on his back taxes. He also had a hard time with his health conditions. He also survived brain surgery for a disease but was left partially deaf. Al also had congenital syphilis, a serious mastoid infection. Even though Al was a criminal with some problems, he still had a family including a wife and five
Al Capone also known as Scarface was a 1920’s mob boss in the city of Chicago, Illinois. He came from a family of Italian immigrants and he was raised in New York City. Capone was part of a gang in New York until he got a invitation from Tarrio in 1920 to come to Chicago and join his mafia. But in 1925 Tarrio was almost killed in a shootout with a rival gang so he steps down from mob boss and hands the mafia to Capone. Once Al became the boss he started to sell whiskey which at the time was illegal because of Prohibition.
Al (Alphonse) Capone was born on Tuesday the 17th January 1899 in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were called Teresina Capone and Gabriel Capone, and they were poor Italian immigrants, and he was one of 8 siblings. They had immigrated from Naples, Italy to Brooklyn, New York City. He was the fourth of five sons and two daughters. His brother names were Salvatore (Frank) Raffaele (Ralph "Bottles") and Vincenzo.
Who was Al Capone really? Many viewed him as a hero while others saw him as a terrorist. Whether or not he was a hero or villain, his life played an important role in Chicago in the 1920s. He was born on January 17, 1899 a pair of Italian immigrants and given the birth name Alphone Caponi which he later changed. Al was the fourth child out of a total of nine children.
Later Torrio left the gang and now Capone was in charge, he was more organized than Torrio in the gang. After, he got involved with the St. Valentine's day massacre killing the Moran’s gang members to destroy the Moran’s gang. Later was in jail from a tax evasion from hundred million dollars was a evaded. These were the reasons why Al Capone was a villain and was a criminal in the U.S. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York as an immigrant.
Alphonse Capone, also known as ‘Al’ or ‘Scarface’ rose to fame in the early 1920’s as an American Gangster and Co-founder (later boss) of the Chicago Outfit, an organized crime unit based in Chicago, Illinois. Born in 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Al was the fourth of eight children. His parents Gabrielle and Teresina had immigrated from Naples, Italy just five years before his birth. During this time, many immigrant families would face prejudice, especially in big cities. Al would often claim that he was an ‘American, born and bred’, and he was, though his Italian roots were often blamed as the reason he became such an infamous gangster.
They had one son together name Albert Francis Capone. Albert grew up nothing like his father, who was always seeking power and money. Albert was always trying to stop the crimes in the city by being recruited by the police but had no idea that his father was the one leading crimes that were occurring throughout the city. Al Capone became part of the Chicago Mafia in 1910. Johnny Torrio, Capone’s crime mentor, resigned as the head boss of the mafia in 1914.
Bang! Bang! Al Capone, though looked on as a business man who gave the people what they wanted, was really a murderer who was leading the bootlegging business in Chicago. Doing anything and everything to earn that title, Capone would not stop his mastermind business for the merest bit of resistance. Though the times of being a criminal were challenging, Capone some how made it work.
He killed two men, but no one ever said they heard or saw it, so Capone never got tried in court. He kept up his violence by, beating up a rival gang member and sending him to the hospital. After sending him to the hospital the police looked for someone with his description, so Yale sent him to Chicago to wait till things settled down there in Brooklyn ("History Files - Al Capone, 1999"). Yale didn't just send him there to have nothing to do. Once Capone got to Chicago he helped with a big brothel business.
Al Capone was born an immigrant family in Brooklyn. At a young age Capone joined a mob with Johnny Torrio. He quickly grew as a notorious gangster and rapidly built his reputation. (1) He was notorious for multiple brutal killings and making millions off of bootlegging illegal alcohol in chicago. The government tried carrying out many different Investigations on Capone, but never got enough to prosecute Capone.
The 20’s hit American history in many ways. Ranging from harmless flappers to dangerous mobsters and gang violence. During this time period, Al Capone was the master of selling illegal drugs, controlling brothels, and tax evasion conviction. Born in 1899, Alphonse Capone’s family migrated from Italy to the city of Brooklyn. Growing up, his family was extremely poor.
Al Capone was one of the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s and 1940s. The violence that Al Capone was capable of and the fear he invoked in the general public, drastically changed the history of Chicago. This endless list of crimes that Al Capone committed left a deep cut in the history of the United States. Alphonse Capone was an Italian-American.
Besides most other gangsters Al Capone was born into a poor Italy immigrant family. His father was a well respected Italian barber. After getting expelled at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher he never went back to school (http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#early-life). Even though he never finished the sixth grade Al Capone was very intelligent and by the age twenty-six he was running Chicago’s criminal underworld. He began his career under the wing of criminal boss Johnny Torrio
Al Capone was in a mob that often caused a lot of trouble. The mob was interested on illegal brewing, and distilling and distribution of beer and liquor. Even though they caused a lot of trouble, they were never investigated, no matter how many people they killed or laws they broke. (“Al Capone”) He was responsible for one thousand or more murders, certainly hundreds.
Al Capone was one of the most notorious gangsters of the first half of the 20th century. Based mainly in Chicago, Capone made hundreds of millions of dollars in various illegal businesses such as bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, racketeering, and various other mob activities. Although also a philanthropist, Capone was a ruthless killer who believed in eliminating his competition. A true understanding of this crime czar’s career can be gained from studying his beginnings after sixth grade in New York, his relocation to Chicago, the growth of his empire, his arrests, and prison time, and his deathbed in Florida. Beginnings Mr. Capone started his career in violence at a very young age.
The 1920s was a decade of prosperity, jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, flappers and marathon dancers. It was also the first decade in history to have a nickname: “The Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age." During the 1920s, Crime was not like it is today. Gangs and mobs didn’t occur as often in the 20th century as they do today in the 21st. This is one of the very reasons why Alphonse "Al" Gabriel Capone became known as the definer and one of the most recognizable figures in the history of organized crime in the U.S. Trouble started for Alphonse Capone around the age of 13 or 14 just after he quit the seventh grade. He became a member of the junior branch in a notorious gang called the Five Point Juniors.