| GangsterAl Capone or Scarface, ran Chicago with blood and guns. Capone was born in Brooklyn in 1899 to two Italian immigrants. From the beginning, he never responded well to authority. Late in December 1918, Capone killed a man in an argument. Rather than face the charges, he called his old friend Torrio, who was now in Chicago. Capone moved to Chicago on the invitation of Torrio. He carried his rough style of dealing with people to Chicago. As the bartender at Torrio's club, he broke the bones the arms, legs, and even skulls of those he evicted from the establishment. As Torrio's right hand man, he received the job killing off "Big Jim" Colosimo, who ran Chicago's underground. Torrio had him killed by Capone on May 11, 1920. Torrio became boss of Chicago, and Capone became the manager of alcohol for the city. Al Capone became head of the Chicago mafia after Torrio was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt and stepped down from the head spot in 1925. Throughout his reign he ran the streets of Chicago with his mob. When his mob with at its prime, Capone had city aldermen, mayors, legislators, governors, congressmen, and over half the Chicago police force on his payroll. In 1929 he made his biggest blunder by ordering the shooting of Bugs Moran, part of another Chicago underground faction, on February 14. In what is known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Capone's men killed a group seven people, but Moran was not in the group. The even, however, changed the public mind about pursuing organized crime. By now, the IRS had been gathering tax evasion information on Capone for some time through a hired agent, Eddie O'Hare. O'Hare ran Capone's dog and race tracks and told the IRS where they could find Capone's financial records. On November 24, Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in Federal prison, fined $50,000, charged $7692 for court costs, and $215,000 in back taxes for tax evasion. He was released in 1939, after serving seven years and paying all of his back taxes. His mental and physical condition had severely deteriorated and he entered Baltimore hospital for brain treatment immediately after his release. He died of a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947, having killed Eddie O'Hare before he died.
the bodies for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
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| Al Caponecall me crazy but i like Al Capone yea what he did was bad............ |
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| the thing called LOVEwhen i tell you i love you i mean it. you may not think so, you may think im crazy, you may even think i dont know what love is. but to tel you the truth i do. are you surprised? now your all thinking what is love than? love is something you have to learn. i see ppl telling eachother that they love them but do they really mean it? see ive have that happen to me a lot and you really can learn for all that stuff. k short love story that really a half a love story. ive known this guy for about 5 years and ive loved him for 2 years now. love....love takes time. ive tried everything cause i wanted love but i wasnt happy than i found real love and im happy. |
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| O my cow, I got a job and im happy. old time pottery. now im gonna buy my truck.
list for the summer
1. help out at church
2. truck (F150)
3. another job
4. auto boddy classes
5. kick boxing classes
6. try to hang out with jon |
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............what should i do???? being happy for the first time in along time is awsome
..........but being in love is so much BETTER
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