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    AL Capone Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit‚ which subsequently also became known as the "Capones"‚ was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor‚ and other illegal activities‚ such as prostitution‚ in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants‚ Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after having been expelled from school at age

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    Al Capone Al Capone was a very dangerous Gangster. He had and ran many illegal businesses like bootlegging‚ prostitution‚ gambling and murders. Being highly known as this big gangster guy‚ knowing there was many gangs in the world Al Capone was at the top. Al Capone was the greatest gangster in the 1920s. Al Capone was a wealthy man because money was made fast and easy. Gambling was a business that paid off‚ there were tons of places to go gamble there were stations set up all over the

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    Al Capone Biography

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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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    Professor Fitzgerald Paper # 2 The Infamous Mobster Al Capone Al Capone‚ also known as Scarface‚ was born in Brooklyn‚ New York to immigrant parents born in 1899. He dropped out of school in sixth grade to become affiliated to a notorious street gang. Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader along with Lucky Luicano‚ who would later break off from the gang. In 1919 Capone joined Torrio in Chicago and became a lieutenant in the Colosimo mob. Capone and the Colosimo mob gained interest in bootlegging

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    Alphonse Gabriel Capone‚ also known as Al Capone is recognized as one of America’s best known gangsters. Capone has a leading role in numerous illegal activities in Chicago‚ leading its reputation to be known as an unlawful city. He is the one who collapsed law and order during the prohibition era in the 1920’s by developing a business which sold bootlegged liquor‚ racketeering‚ prostitution‚ and gambling in Chicago. Al Capone has a story which is very unique to majority of other entrepreneurs which

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    Al Capone “The Big Cheese” Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17‚ 1899 – January 25‚ 1947) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime organization. The Chicago Outfit‚ which then also became known as the "Capones‚" was devoted to smuggling and bootlegging liquor‚ and other illegal activities such as prostitution‚ in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. “The Big Cheese” is the head of the gang in a given area defined as territory. And Al Capone was just that in Chi-town.Born

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    Al Capone, The Big Fella

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    Al Capone‚ the Big Fella‚ was named one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. Capone was a bootlegger during the Prohibition Era in the Roaring Twenties. Capone prospered off the prohibition of alcohol. Throughout his life as a gangster he moved up in ranks and led himself to the top of the bootlegging industry. If there never was a prohibition‚ he would have never been as known as he is today. Capone was born into a family of Italian Immigrants on January 17‚ 1899 in Brooklyn‚ New York

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    Kobler‚John Capone the Life and World of Al Capone New York. Da Capo Press.1971 Alphonse “Scarface” Capone is one of America’s most famous and ruthless gangsters of all time and founder of organized crime as modern society knows it. Al Capone became a multi-millionaire and a legend by feeding a city’s appetite for liquor‚ prostitution‚ and gambling. Capone had two different sides to him‚ on one hand he was a brutal killer‚ and on the other‚ a loving father and family man. Capone had a leading

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    Al Capone - Short Essay

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    Al Capone was born in Brooklyn on January 17‚ 1899‚ fourth of seven sons and two daughters. His parents‚ Gabriel and Theresa‚ had immigrated to the United States six years before from Castellammare di Stabia‚ sixteen miles from Naples‚ Italy. He died of cardiac arrest at his estate on Palm Island‚ Florida‚ just eight days after his 48th birthday. He was born in boroughs of New York. He became involved in gangs at a very young age after being expelled from school. Later on in life‚ Capone left

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    Al Capone is one of the most recognized names in American history. Capone ran the City of Chicago with illegal activities. He appeared many times on newspapers all over the country. Every one of us has heard of Al Capone‚ but most of us don’t k now the story behind him. What made him to be the most feared gangster in the city of Chicago? How did this kid from a rough neighborhood and no money grow up to have $60‚000‚000? I’ve always been fascinated with organized crime but had never been taught anything

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