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Al Capone, the most notorious gangster in American history, was born to Italian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899. He was given the nickname Scarface as a young hoodlum after being cut in the face during an altercation. (His friends, however, called him Snorky, which means elegant.) As a member of New York's Five Points Gang, Capone went west to serve as muscle for Chicago crime boss "Big Jim" Colosimo. When Colosimo was murdered, Capone's friend Johnny Torrio took over as Chicago's top mobster, and when Torrio barely survived an assassination attempt, he fled Chicago and left Capone in charge. The fortunes to be made from alcohol sales during Prohibition led Capone on a vicio...
Al Capone, the most notorious gangster in American history, was born to Italian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899. He was given the nickname Scarface as a young hoodlum after being cut in the face during an altercation. (His friends, however, called him Snorky, which means elegant.) As a member of New York's Five Points Gang, Capone went west to serve as muscle for Chicago crime boss "Big Jim" Colosimo. When Colosimo was murdered, Capone's friend Johnny Torrio took over as Chicago's top mobster, and when Torrio barely survived an assassination attempt, he fled Chicago and left Capone in charge. The fortunes to be made from alcohol sales during Prohibition led Capone on a vicious campaign to eliminate his competition. Capone's reign of murders culminated in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. He often avoided conviction through jury tampering and witness intimidation, but he was finally brought to justice in 1931 on charges of federal income tax evasion. After seven and a half years in prison, Capone was freed in 1938 as his syphilis grew worse. He died in 1947.
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