beginning as a two-bit bootlegger
Alphonse scarface Capone goes to the ranks of the Southside [rackets] to become king of the underworld before Al capone planned the St.
Valentine's day massacre one of the bloodiest in American history and was dubbed public enemy number one
Speakeasies Gambling Joints racetracks smuggling and bootlegging would bring in over a hundred million dollars annually
Before Al Capone would be portrayed by many an actor and film and television
1920 during the Height of Prohibition Al's multi-million Dollar Chicago operation and bootlegging prostitution and gambling
Dominated the organized Crime scene Al was a ruthless killer responsible
for many Brutal acts of violence
Mainly against other gangs an early scuffle resulted in him getting sliced in the face which would earn for him the nickname of scarface
he opened one of the nation's first soup kitchens and fought for
Expiration dates on milk even wrote love songs to his wife while he was in prison. [what's] going on guys?
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alphonse Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17th 1899
He's one of nine children of recent Italian Immigrants Gabriel and [Teresina] Capone Al's
Parents came from the province of Salerno and were among the thousands of Italians who arrived to New York in 1894 at the time
[Teresina] was pregnant and already bringing up two sons
Two-year-Old Vincenzo and Rabbi out gabriel he earned a living as a barber while [teresina] [while] she was a seamstress
Now if I pronounced any of those rungs incorrectly, please don't put out a hit on me now
They were a poor family that came to America seeking a better life the Capone's and their nine children lived in a New York
tenement
Little more than a slum near the navy are the crime-filled neighborhood was a tough place to raise a family and they moved to Brooklyn
When L was 10 L was initially a good student but struggled with the rules in his strict Catholic school
Eventually he began falling behind and had to repeat the sixth grade it was around that time
He started playing hooky hanging out at the Brooklyn docks and joined two gangs the Brooklyn Rippers and the 40 thieves
Juniors yeah, he was getting up to no good
extremely up
but hey
that's what boys do one day during a rare appearance at school Al's teacher hit him when he stepped out of line and
It was in the park slope neighborhood of Brooklyn that I would be both his future wife Mary Coughlin and his mob mentor racketeer
Oh Johnny Torrio though racketeering
It's essentially when you offer a fraudulent
solution to a problem
That you cost like offering to protect people if they pay you and then beating the shit out of them if they do
not
[Turia] was running a number of gambling
Operation near Al's home when he began running small errands for him he thought al the importance of business sense in Crime and made way
[for] a new [don] [and] criminal Enterprise early on Al stuck to legitimate employment until torrio introduced him to the gangster frankie yeah
He gave [allen] job at the bartender and a bouncer on coney Island and it was his first real taste of the crooked lifestyle it
Was one night then when allen up to a woman at the bar and said honey
You got a beautiful ass and I mean that as a compliment
[he] said it loud enough that her brother at the next table
Will he heard him and he defended his sister's honor by slashing all across the face with a nut
Leaving the man with three scars now this would later inspire the nickname scarface
And he would typically try and hide it or be photographed from the other side al capone tough guy he had his own [little] complex
when Al was
[19] he decided to Marry mae Coughlin just weeks after the birth of their child
Albert now a husband and a father [ally] to support his family that things were about to change [in]
1920 the Prohibition Act came into effect banning the sale production
Import and Transportation of alcohol drinks torrio invited Al to come to Chicago [where] he had booming business and gambling and prostitution
[but] the prohibition in the place well he was focusing on a new more lucrative
He died of a heart attack and Al brought the rest of his family to Chicago
He supported his sisters and got his brothers into the racket
I began to develop a bit of a reputation as a lush drinker who went whoring and partying all the time [after] [hitting] a park?
Taxicab while driving drunk he was arrested for the first time
But his boss quickly used his connections to get him off
And with all the partying and whoring sounds like he was getting off quite a bit if you know what I mean
God do love women
I was also an incredible business man who earned a lot of respect from the public [too] real recognized Al skills and quickly promoted him
to partner when he was only 23 years young as
Algebra mutation grew so did the number of enemies he never went anywhere with at least two?
Bodyguards by his side even while. He was driving he also had a beast of a car a custom-made
1928 Cadillac that was one of the first armored cars in history
The Dark Green Caddy had reinforced steel and weighed 7 tons it was painted to look like a police car and had a siren
Allowing for a quick getaway and also had one inch thick bulletproof glass yeah
You couldn't fuck without pull have another means of safety
The [Cohen] had equipped in this car one of the first
Regulations police pick up radios has ever been installed an automobile
I'm starting to think I need a little bit of protection myself because my dog buster. He nearly took my finger off
true Star in 1923 when Chicago
elected a reformist Mayor who announced that he planned to rid the city of corruption to real and Al
decided to move their base to the suburb of Cicero the small area of
60,000 was perfect for their organization to flourish and expand soon with the assistance of his brothers, [Al]
Infiltrated the government and police departments, but not before his brother frank had been killed in a shootout with Chicago's Police force
They probably didn't like that. He'd been ripping off their comm you know soon
They were running hundreds of brothels gambling clubs and racetracks after being shot several times in
1925 by Rival Mobsters Torrio decided to leave the business and return to italy
Turning over his legacy to out the pub al moved his headquarters to downtown Chicago
Where [he] would give orders to take out anyone who stood [in] his way?
Don't [you] [I] guess we'd love to worry about this
Let's get back the bets the Chicago out the pone had entered was as volatile and cunning as he was from there
He began living a luxurious and public lifestyle he would be seen at places [like] the opera and loved
virgie in particular all adults [in] custom suits Cigars Gourmet Foo
Prostitutes and booze his favorite liquor was templeton [drive] from Iowa. He was [a] very flamboyant
Also wore some expensive jewelry also
newspapers of the time
estimated that house operations generated one hundred million dollars in Revenue
Annually, so Daddy's a lot of cash to throw around always being smartly dressed
He set out to be viewed as a respectable businessman and pillar of the community has been Celeb
Status and Philanthropy had gained in public sympathy many even considered him to be a kind of Robin hood figure
But then he would go [on] and do things that were not so popular like having jazz legend fats Waller
Kidnapped to play at a private gathering and well after that [I] [was] popularity it wouldn't get so hot
People didn't like him his name became associated with Brutal violence
You can't dress that good and have people not know when you're killing everybody it just doesn't work awesome
Something fishy about them hats don't you agree in?
1929 [I] went to his Florida Getaway to mastermind one of the most intricate and famous mob hits in history
I'm talking about the Valentine's day massacre
Al's longtime Rival bugs Moran Ran a gang in the North side of Chicago
And was out to get Al top Hitmen machine gun Jack McGurn
on February 14 1929
McGurns gunmen posed as police and raided the rival gangs garage the men faced the wall with her hands up and Al's [man] they opened
immediately blamed him for the massacre
He was [dug] public enemy number one, but [al] he didn't like that, and he wanted the public's favor back
That's when he decided to help out the community
Now many were feeling the effects of the great depression
So Al said the Nation's first soup kitchen on top of that he also set up a citywide program giving free milk to school kids
But still there was an outcry over the st.
Valentine's day massacre and president Herbert Hoover [he] ordered the federal government to step up efforts to put al Capone behind bars with
Insufficient evidence to book him on murder charges [they] had to get a little creative [in]
1927 the Supreme Court had ruled that income earned on illegal activities was taxable
So on June 5th 1931 the us government indicted Al on 22 counts of income tax evasion [now]
We got your book your records the next thing
We're gonna get is here Al was found guilty and sent to prison for 11 years
He then spent his first two years of jail time in a federal prison in Atlanta after we was caught bribing the guards well
Then he was sent packing to a brand-new prison that had just opened up known as Alcatraz
Yeah, this was in 1934 around this time prohibition had become something of the past
But al Capone he [couldn't] enjoy the party because well
Alcatraz it's on an Island and [it's] prison maximum security you wouldn't even know what's going on
You know he was in himself writing. Love letters to was what apparently al isolated from the outside world
He could no longer wield his still considerable influence
He was also suffering withdrawal symptoms from his cocaine addiction and a long untreated case of syphilis
Well that was slowly affecting his brain
he's bent the last year of a sentence in the prison hospital confused and
Disoriented until they finally released them the condition was so [bad]
He actually had a degenerative impact on his brain and the doctors will they ruled that he was no threat [to] society
they just let him go he lived out his last his life in his palm island mansion in Florida with his wife an
exam by a physician
Concluded that at the time he had the mental capacity of a 12 year old and he would often fish in his swimming pool
Yeah, apparently syphilis can do that to a man he died [of] cardiac arrest January 25th
1947 at the age of 48 he was surrounded by his family and the rest of the story who lives on [his] legacy
Because this is before their death you tell them in comments. Yeah like honestly al capone
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