Al Capone by Lillian Lam https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm Mad man to mad man en-us 2018-10-11 13:37:14 UTC 2025-11-09 14:51:51 UTC hello@padlet.com In the Beginning... lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291718117 Alphonse Gabriel, more notoriously known as Al "Scarface" Capone,  was born to an Italian immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York in 1899. 
Al got his start in street crime after dropping out of school in sixth grade., he joined and was accepted by an infamous gang run by Johnny Torrio.]]> 2018-10-11 13:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291718117 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291720881 2018-10-11 13:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291720881 Mob Life lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291724679 In 1920, with the invitation of Torrio, Capone joined Torrio in Chicago where he had become an influential lieutenant in the Colosimo mob. 
Torrio eventually rose to power, with the help of Al Capone, and eventually took over the mob.
After an attempted assassination of Torrio that left him terribly wounded,  Al Capone had become the Boss. He had a notorious reputation in the ruthless gang rivalries of the period, struggling to acquire and retain “racketeering rights” to several areas of Chicago]]> 2018-10-11 13:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291724679 Mob Wife lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291724893 Mae Coughlin married Al Capone in 1918, she was a middle-class Irish girl. When they got married, Al briefly took a hiatus from his gangster role and settled down as a bookkeeper.
Mae and Al Capone had one child together, their son named Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone, and the two of them remained married until Al Capone's death.]]> 2018-10-11 13:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291724893 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291729690 2018-10-11 13:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291729690 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291732622 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of 7 members of the George "Bugs" Moran mob, who were machine-gunned against a garage wall by rivals posing as police. It has been regarded as a build up of the violence of the Chicago gang era. The massacre was generally ascribed to the Capone mob, although Al himself was in Florida. 
The George "Bugs" Moran mob was a known rival to Al Capone's own mob]]> 2018-10-11 14:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291732622 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291741626 2018-10-11 14:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291741626 The Police Vs. Al Capone lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291742020 Police and Al Capone didn't have the best relationship ever. They're investigations on Al Capone didn't yield any results that could arrest him, so they turned to raiding his businesses. Al went into hiding for three months, but he took a huge risk and gave himself up to the Chicago police. It proved to be the right decision as the authorities did not have enough evidence to charge him. Capone was a once again a free man, having made a mockery of the police and justice system.
Funny enough, the police weren't the ones to bring Al Capone to his knees, but rather it was those who worked in the tax offices that brought his empire down. Due to his recluse spending of his money, he eventually founded guilty of tax evasion.]]> 2018-10-11 14:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291742020 Sentencing lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291742071 On March 13, 1931, a federal grand jury met secretly on the government's claim that in 1924 Al Capone had a tax liability of $32,488.81. The jury returned an indictment against Capone that was kept secret until the investigation was complete for the years 1925 to 1929.
The grand jury later returned an indictment against Capone with 22 counts of tax evasion totaling over $200,000. Capone and 68 members of his gang were charged with 5,000 separate violations of the Volstead Act. These income tax cases took precedence over the Prohibition violations.
A deal was secretly struck between Capone's lawyers and government prosecutors. Capone was to plead guilty to a lighter charge and would receive a sentence of between two and five years.
When word got out, the press were outraged and campaigned against what they saw as a blatant whitewash. The overconfident Capone, who believed he would receive less than five years in prison, became less cocky when he realized that his plea bargain was now null and void.
]]> 2018-10-11 14:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291742071 Alcatraz lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291747682 In August 1934, Al Capone was moved from a prison in Atlanta to the infamous Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. His days of privileges in jail were gone, and contact with the outside world, even through letters and newspapers, was minimal. However Capone’s sentence was eventually reduced to six and a half years for good behavior.]]> 2018-10-11 14:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291747682 The End of Alphonse Capone lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291748941 Al Capone died on January 25, 1947 of cardiac arrest at the age of 48. During his last years in prison, Capone's declining health was exacerbated by tertiary syphilis, and he became confused and disorientated. After release, Capone slowly deteriorated at his Palm Island palace. His wife Mae stuck by him until the end.]]> 2018-10-11 14:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291748941 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291749621 2018-10-11 14:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291749621 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291750094 2018-10-11 14:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291750094 Al Capone's Favorite Car lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291752721 The Capone Cadillac car was protected by 3,000lbs of steel armour and bulletproof windows.]]> 2018-10-11 14:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291752721 Fancy House lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291754978  In 1928 he bought a palatial, waterfront $40,000 mansion in Palm Springs, Florida designed in the latest Art Deco style. The security minded gangster chose this retreat, 1,300 miles away from Chicago.]]> 2018-10-11 14:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291754978 lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291755572 2018-10-11 14:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291755572 Tried to Pay the Jury lillianlam859 https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291756068 Capone's mob members eventually got the list of names of the jury that was to attend his trial and bribed them.
During his trial, to the shock of Al Capone and his attorney, the judge demanded that the Jury be switched with another. The jury was also guarded at nigh to avoid the bribery.]]> 2018-10-11 14:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lillianlam859/bsbwkkxxu6gm/wish/291756068