Born in Brooklyn, he began his career in crime as protege to New York He is most infamous for planning the massacre of seven members of a rival gang on Valentine's Day in 1929.
After his transfer to Capone also became a member of the James Street Boys gang during this period, which was run by Before Capone turned 21, he was involved in several violent incidents.
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Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! In a youthful scrape at the Harvard Inn, a young hoodlum named Frank Galluccio slashed Capone with a knife or razor across his left cheek after Capone made a crude comment to Galluccio’s sister, prompting the later nickname “Scarface.” Capone later shot the winner of a neighbourhood craps game to death as he robbed him of his winnings.
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This was also the year the Justice Department named Eliot Ness to form a special crime-busting squad which came to be known as "The Untouchables.
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Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.After leaving school at age 14, Al Capone worked as a Al Capone was a gangster who served aspiring New York mobsters Al Capone died of cardiac arrest in 1947, but his decline began earlier.
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"In 1931 Alphonse Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and began an eleven year sentence in the Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island. Despite being questioned by the police, Capone was let go because no one had witnessed the Torrio had moved from New York to Chicago in 1909 to help run the giant brothel business under Chicago crime boss On June 5, 1931, Capone was indicted for 22 counts of federal
Al Capone leaving a federal courthouse in Chicago, October 14, 1931.
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Deprived of his former power, sick with syphilis and having lost all his friends and allies, he recalls the grave criminal past and the brutal crimes committed by his orders in the streets of Chicago.
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