Al Capone's Accomplishments

Alfonso Capone was the symbol of the prohibition era lawlessness. Born to an immigrant family, Capone had a rough start. He started his career in a gang and it ended in Alcatraz off the coast of California. Throughout his life he committed murder, helped in a massacre, and went to jail a number of times.

Al Capone’s childhood led him directly into the gangs and a criminal career, and set him on the path for the rest of his life. “Born to an immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York in 1899, Al Capone quit school after the sixth grade” (“Al Capone”). His poor family caused him to live in an impoverished part of the city, especially because their family was running off of a barber's paycheck (Horan). Being in the presence of these types of people,

His dubious behaviour and sketchy alibis hinted at his false innocence. He missed his original court date on March 12, 1929 because he had a doctor's note claiming he had bronchial pneumonia in Miami and was confined to bed and the date was rescheduled to March 20 (“Al Capone”). His pneumonia in Florida was very sketchy because there was no reason why he was in Florida in the first place. Also the FBI got statements saying that on the court date Al “made a plane trip to Bimini and a cruise to Nassau” (“Capone, Al”). Bimini and Nassau are both a part of the Bahamas in the tropical Caribbean Sea. Capone finally appeared before the court on the reset date and as he left “he was arrested by agents for contempt of court, an offense for which the penalty could be one year in prison and a $1000 fine. He posted $5000 bond and was released” (“Capone, Al”). It took four seizures before he finally quit crime and left Chicago. Next, Capone was arrested, but for concealed carry and he went down with his bodyguard on May 17, 1929 and was released nine months later to the day (“Capone, Al”). Again Capone was arrested on February 28, 1931 and again it was for contempt of court, although this time the “charge was subsequently dismissed” (“Al Capone”). The final time Capone went down the court prosecuted him to the furthest extent the law would allow. The U.S. treasury themselves led

He suffered from paresis which he got from syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, which he contracted at Alcatraz (“Al Capone”). Paresis is a partial paralysis caused by muscle weakness. After Alcatraz, Capone never publicly returned to Chicago. ‘he had become mentally incapable of returning to gangland politics” and while having the mentality of a 12 year old, after being examined by a Baltimore psychiatrist and his physician (“Al Capone”). Capone finally died on January 25, 1947 “due to a stroke and pneumonia” (“Al Capone”). Capone faked the same disease that would later take his