Alphonse Capone: The Most Infamous Gangster

Alphonse Capone was the most infamous mobster in the 1920s. He was “like any other man. ‘All I do is supply a demand’” (brainyquote.com ). During the prohibition era, Capone was the boss and co-founder of the Chicago Outfit. Although he is known for the horrific things he was involved in, his childhood was not all that amazing either.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1899. Capone and his family were hoping for a better life when they moved to America. He eventually stopped going to school after his principal beat him for skipping, and this is around the time in which he moved out of a very small apartment. After moving out, Alphonse soon met his mob mentor Torrio and his future wife Mary. Soon after his father’s death from a heart attack in 1920 (history.com), Torrio invited him to Chicago.
While in Chicago, Torrio got Capone into bootlegging. Bootlegging is the making or selling of liquor without registration or payment of taxes. Capone started drinking more even after Torrio warned him to keep a low profile. Their operation came to a halt when he was caught driving drunk after hitting a taxi. He decided he was going to change his ways after his son was born. Capone’s wife and son moved to Chicago from Brooklyn so they could be with him. Little did they know, he would fall back into his old ways later that year.
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Two of the five counts are misdemeanors, failure to file income tax in 1924 and 1928, each carrying possible maximum sentence of one year imprisonment and $10,000 fine.” (nytimes.com), as said by a news article from around this time. Although he attempted to bribe the jury and did his best to only receive a minimal sentence, the judge switched to a different jury and Capone was sentenced to eleven years in prison for failure to pay his