Italian immigrant family. By the age of 12 he had dropped out school and joined a notorious street gang belonging to Johnny Torrio‚ the Five Points Gang. Due to introduction of prohibition‚ he became arguably the most successful and well-known figure in organised crime. After murdering two and hospitalising one rival gang members‚ in 1919 Capone moved to Chicago. He intimidated Johnny Torrio’s rivals within the city to try and get them to hand over their territory. A year after he had moved Prohibition
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of prohibition in 1920. When he arrived‚ he was mentored by Johnny
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with no other choice but to work at an early age associating himself with the street gangs. During that time he met a famous well-known mobster at the time Johnny Torrio who hired him. Capone began working for him and associated himself to Torrio’s gang the James Street Boys‚ who were later the Five Points Gang‚ biggest gangs in Chicago. Torrio lead Capone to meet other mobsters such as Frankie Tale‚ which Capone started working for in his Inn. Al Capone was actually nicknamed “Scarface” in 1917 at
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Feared by many‚ followed by most. Who would’ve thought someone coming from a religious household would soon make the world sense the wrath of Al Capone‚ the criminal mastermind. The man who showed no remorse towards anyone that interfered with his principles. The one who took a different perception on life and eventually composed his own set of rules. Certainly in doing so would lead others and their lives. The most notoriously known gangster‚ Alphonse Capone was the first from his family to be born
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(Al Capone”s LIfe )Al Capone was born in Brooklyn‚NY in 1899.His parents were Poor immigrants(Gabriela and Tressa Capone).He was among eight children of the parents.His childhood was typical for an italian immigrants.His father was a barber and mother a seamstress nothing could have predicted his rise to the most notorious gangster.Capone was a good student in grade school but started to fall behind and had to repeat the sixth grade.Around that time had begun to hang around the docks
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Al Capone was a complicated man; even though he scammed many people‚ Capone gave back to his community by creating soup kitchens and other forms of charity. Despite all this he appeared on up and coming gang leader‚ Johnny Torrio’s‚ radar. Capone went to Chicago to work for Mr. Torrio. “Capone was twenty-one years old and new in town. He worked in Chicago’s Levee District‚ south of downtown‚ a neighborhood of sleazy bars and bordellos‚ where a man‚ if he cared about his health‚ tried not to stay long
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The Crimes The first mobster job of Al Capone was a crackdown on racketeering in Chicago that involved moving operations to Cicero. His brothers‚ Frank and Ralph‚ assisted him in infiltrating the police and the government departments. They took leading positions between them within Cicero city government in addition to running gambling clubs‚ brothels‚ and racetracks. Al Capone kidnapped the election workers of the opponents and threatened the voters with violence. Capone’s brother‚ Frank was shot
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Chicago in the 1900’s were deadly. Open shootings‚ muggings‚ and illegal breweries‚ all started with Mobsters. Most people do not know who Johnny Torrio is‚ but gangsters would not be the same without him. Born in Italy‚ then traveled to New York‚ but his life as a big time gangster started in Chicago. Johnny Torrio lived a rough life. His dad died when he was two years old‚ and his mother brought him to New York. His mother remarried a man who owned a grocery store that was secretly a illegal liquor
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seemingly clean record ‘till his involvement with Torrio (friend of Capone) and his gang. (FBI) Capone then worked with Torrio until Torrio killed the current mob boss to claim what he had‚ which Capone then started working cooperatively with him. They worked initially to make connections with plenty of organizations. Eventually they stopped when they saw the economic opportunity within prohibition. Because of the equally illegal consequences‚ Capone and Torrio would have to had many influences to avoid
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infamous gangsters in American history. Capone was born from an Italian immigrant family in Brooklyn‚ New York in 1899. He was associated with gangs since he quit school in the sixth grade‚ in the street gang he associated himself with he met Johnny Torrio‚ who was the gang leader at the time‚ and Charles “Lucky” Luciano. At this time many criminals had come from impoverish backgrounds‚ but this was not the case for Capone. Capone came from a professional and respectable family. It is believed the
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