Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Al Capone
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{Short description|American gangster and businessman (1899–1947)}} {{About|the gangster}} {{Redirect|Capone}} {{Good article}} {{Pp-semi-indef|small=yes}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Al Capone | image_name = Al Capone in 1930.jpg | image_caption = Capone in 1930 | birth_name = Alphonse Gabriel Capone | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|01|17}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|01|25|1899|01|17}} | death_place = [[Palm Island, Florida]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois)|Mount Carmel Cemetery]], [[Hillside, Illinois]], U.S. | conviction_penalty = 11 years imprisonment (1931) | occupation = {{hlist|[[Organized crime|Gangster]]|[[Rum-running|bootlegger]]|[[racketeer]]}} | spouse = {{marriage|[[Mae Capone|Mae Coughlin]]|1918}} | children = 1 | alias = {{hlist|Scarface|Big Al|Big Boy|Public Enemy No. 1|Snorky}} | known_for = {{hlist|Boss of the [[Chicago Outfit]]|[[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]}} | signature = Al Capone Signature.svg | allegiance = Chicago Outfit | successor = [[Frank Nitti]] | relatives = {{ubl|[[Richard James Hart]] (brother)|[[Ralph Capone]] (brother)|[[Frank Capone]] (brother)|[[Charles Fischetti]] (cousin)|[[Rocco Fischetti]] (cousin)}} | conviction = [[Tax evasion]] (26 U.S.C. § 145) (5 counts) }} '''Alphonse Gabriel Capone''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|p|oʊ|n}} {{respell|kə|POHN}};<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/al-capone |title=the definition of al capone |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=October 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618152253/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/al-capone |archive-date=June 18, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{IPA|it|kaˈpoːne|lang}}; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "'''Scarface'''", was an American [[organized crime|gangster]] and [[businessman]] who attained notoriety during the [[Prohibition era]] as the co-founder and boss of the [[Chicago Outfit]] from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year reign as a [[crime boss]] ended when he was imprisoned at the age of 33. Capone was born in New York City in 1899 to [[Italian Americans|Italian immigrants]]. He joined the [[Five Points Gang]] as a teenager and became a [[bouncer]] in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, Capone moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard of [[Johnny Torrio]], head of a criminal syndicate that [[rum-running|illegally supplied alcohol]]—the forerunner of the Outfit—and was politically protected through the [[Unione Siciliana]]. A conflict with the [[North Side Gang]] was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Although Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, his mutually profitable relationships with Mayor [[William Hale Thompson]] and the [[Chicago Police Department]] meant he seemed safe from law enforcement. Capone apparently reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at baseball games. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many as a "modern-day [[Robin Hood]]".<ref name=vintage /> The [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]], in which seven people from rival gangs were murdered in broad daylight, damaged the public image of Chicago and Capone, leading influential citizens to demand government action and newspapers to dub Capone "[[Public enemy|Public Enemy]] No. 1". Federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and charged him with twenty-two counts of [[tax evasion]]. He was convicted of five counts in 1931. During a highly publicized case, the judge admitted as evidence Capone's admissions of his income and unpaid taxes, made during prior and ultimately abortive negotiations to pay the government taxes he owed. He was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in [[Federal Bureau of Prisons|federal prison]]. After conviction, he replaced his [[Defense (legal)|defense]] team with experts in [[tax law]], and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling, although his appeal ultimately failed. Capone showed signs of [[neurosyphilis]] early in his sentence and became increasingly debilitated before being released after almost eight years of incarceration. In 1947, he died of cardiac arrest after a stroke.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)