January
27

Al Capone (Dead Jan 27th 1947)

Posted In: History Geek by Patrick at 8:36 pm

Al “Scarface” Capone was an American gangster who rose to power during the Prohibition era  when the United States banned the production and sale of alcohol. His vicious career demonstrated the power and influence of organized crime in the United States.  Despite popular beliefs, Capone did not bring Italian strongarming over to the US; during his rise in the streets of Brooklyn, he stylized his own code of ethics, using criminal activities to achive his own widespread success.

Al Capone

Eventually due to tax evasion, treasury agents took him into custody and he was duly sentenced to ten years hard labor in a prison at Atlanta, Georgia, and ended in Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.  After release, he lived out the rest of his days in his estate on Palm Island, Florida, where he eventually died on January 27, 1947.

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