Research Paper On Al Capone

Al Capone was a legendary gangster. It might have been because of the amount of cash

his mob pulled in every year. Al Capone was one the most remarkable gangsters in all of history,

but why was he so great?

According to the History Channel website, Capone was even in a gang as a

child. It says in the article” Capone belonged to a street gang as a boy and dropped

out of school in sixth grade, later joining the Five Points Gang in Manhattan and

working as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn, a Coney Island bar owned

by mobster Frankie Yale.”Although, when Al went to jail he was only convicted of tax

fraud. However, the authorities did not do enough digging to find him guilty of all the

murders he was behind, or maybe

After he was found guilty, he was sent to Alcatraz

which was the worst prison in all of America. Capone made an escape attempt, but it

failed. He got released early because he was diagnosed with syphilis. He ended up

dying of a heart attack on January 5th, 1947 (“ Al Capone- Scarface”). According to The University of Michigan's article on Capone, “Alfonsi Capone

came to America as a young child in 1894 with his family, from Naples, just one of

42,977 Italians immigrated that year. His family moved to Brooklyn, where Capone

eventually made his stomping grounds for the beginning of a life of crime. As a

teenager, Capone was recruited by Johnny Torrio, one of the most successful

gangsters on the East Coast, for whom Capone did small favors and errands. In his

early adolescence, Capone contracted Syphilis, likely from one of a number of the

neighborhood prostitutes, he slept with. The symptoms disappeared a few weeks

after the contraction, Al assumed the disease had been cured somehow.” When

he was a child one of the reasons he dropped out might have been because he

could have been expelled for hitting a teacher in the 6th grade. When Al was

According to the History Channel website, Capone went to prison in May of

1931 for tax fraud. According to the History Channel article on Al Capone” In

response to the public outcry over the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, President

Herbert Hoover ordered the federal government to step up its efforts to get Capone

on income-tax evasion. The Supreme Court ruled in 1927 that income gained on

illegal activities were taxable, which gave the government a strong case for

prosecuting Capone. On June 5, 1931, the U.S. government finally indicted Capone

on 22 counts of income-tax evasion.” He was in Federal prison for 2 and a half years

until he was caught bribing guards and sent to Alcatraz. He died on January 25, 1947.

According to the History Channel” Capone had contracted syphilis as a young

man, and he now suffered from neurosyphilis, causing dementia. After serving

six-and-a-half years, Capone was released in 1939 to a mental hospital in

Baltimore, where he remained for three years. His health rapidly declining,

Capone lived out his last days in Miami with his wife. He died of cardiac arrest

on January 25, 1947” ( Al Capone - Scarface