"Scarface" Capone
...nd turned the vast empire over to Capone. Soon after Torrio left Capone reported an estimated $100,000,000 a year. Capone was different in one way than other mob bosses, he would socialize in public and go to county functions so it was not like he was running away…they just couldn’t find any evidence that he did something wrong. One thing Capone did that many other wealthy mob bosses did was that the bosses would think out the killings or missions but they would never take part in the killing that is why they always found them innocent…. they didn’t really do it. Capone and his gang did many small killings, some to take out mob leaders, some to take out people that were not cooperative but the killings would only be a one or two person killings a lot of the time they would kill a family member to get the point across either one nobody could have expected the infamous St. Valentines Massacre. The goal of the massacre was to kill Bugs Moran a gangster that made several attempts on Capone’s life and threatened him and his gang. The plot of the massacre was for Capone’s gang to dress up as police and bust up Moran’s gang while making an illegal alcohol deal. Capone’s gang went in the garage took Moran’s weapons and asked them to step against the wall the Capone and his gang opened fire on all seven of the gang members. Capone was getting cold in Chicago so he went on vacation in Miami, Florida when he went he enjoyed it so much he bought a fourteen room Spanish style house. Capone became a law enforcer number one enemy. Since he owned the government in Chicago they wouldn’t arrest him so the president Herbert Hoover assigned a military unit that watched after him. They couldn’t find anything Capone did until Elliot Ness an IRS worker saw that Capone hadn’t paid his taxes in years and sent Capone to a trial for 22 counts of tax evasion and a totaling over $200,000. On June 16, 1931 Capone faced his first jury he dragged it out for over four months. They sent Capone to prison after the long layoff and finally on October 17, 1931 for 11 years and an $80,000 fine. Capone started out his sentence in the United States penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. There were reports that because of his fame he was getting off easy, not having to follow rules and even sneaking people and money in and out of the prison. He was getting publicity in the prison so the Attorney General said no more and in 1934 they transferred him to Alcatraz Island where he couldn’t get to see anybody get any letters even receive current events in the newspaper. The best inmates at Alcatraz could only write a letter once a week and be visited once a month. After a couple of years in Alcatraz the Federal Government let Al get off easy they reduced his sentence to only 6 years 5 months. ...