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  2. Depiction of Italian immigrants in the media during Prohibition

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    Scarface (1932) was a film based on the life of Al Capone and shows how Italian Americans were seen in popular cinema. The Prohibition Era, during which the sale of liquor was banned in the United States, is often identified with the rise of bootlegging and organized crime. Hollywood movies depicting the Mafia became extremely popular during ...

  3. Nucky Johnson's Organization - Wikipedia

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    When Prohibition went in effect in Atlantic City in January 1920, Johnson and his organization went straight into the bootlegging business. He allied himself with several other well-known bootleggers , including: Arnold Rothstein ( New York 's Jewish mob boss ), Charlie Luciano ( Masseria family lieutenant ), Johnny Torrio ( Chicago South Side ...

  4. Al Capone - Wikipedia

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    Capone with his mother. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa (née Raiola; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), [4] both born in Angri, a small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno.

  5. History Repeats Itself: Here's How the 2020s Are Looking Like ...

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    Bootleggers and mob bosses such as Chicago's Al Capone amassed enough power to influence cops, lawyers, and politicians in their favor, and they consolidated into syndicates to control more turf ...

  6. Today in History: Al Capone heads to prison - AOL

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    Capone profited heavily from bootlegging, raking in millions from his illegal activities. Capone and his team were always on a mission to be at the top of the crime game and were constantly wiping ...

  7. Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario - Wikipedia

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    Blaise Diesbourg, also known as "King Canada," was a major figure in the liquor smuggling and bootlegging business around Windsor during the American prohibition period. His success brought him in contact with Al Capone, who arranged a deal with Diesbourg to supply him with the regular shipment of booze by plane.

  8. Forty-Two Gang - Wikipedia

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    The press coverage and media attention on the 42ers caught the notice of the city's bootlegging gangs, specifically Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Gang members frequently committed robberies just so they could blow wads of money in the Outfit's speakeasies and other underworld hangouts. The Outfit would occasionally hire gang members as beer ...

  9. List of the Great Depression-era outlaws - Wikipedia

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    "Bugs" Moran was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. He was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. Seven members of his gang were gunned down in a warehouse in the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of February 14, 1929, supposedly on the orders of his rival Al Capone. Joseph P. Moran: No image available: 1905–1934