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Alphonse Gabriel Capone (/ k ə ˈ p oʊ n / kə-POHN, [1] Italian:; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
Aiello's death left Capone effectively unchallenged in his control over Chicago, and brought 70 years of peace to the city in terms of the Chicago Outfit leadership. [51] Aiello was believed to have been responsible for the deaths of at least 24 people throughout his life, according to the Chicago Tribune , which described him as "the toughest ...
As the new head of the Chicago Outfit, he is last seen visiting the dying Capone at his Palm Island estate in 1946, a year before Capone's death and three years after Nitti's actual suicide. In the 1983 film Easy Money , the Frank Nitti is the name of a kind of pizza ordered to Rodney Dangerfield 's character's house.
Love him or hate him, Al Capone is a legend. The infamous mobster remains a household name more than half a century after his death. On this day 84 years ago, the gangster was sentenced to 11 ...
He called it Sweetheart, a Colt 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol that gangster Al Capone always carried with him for protection. He said the gun saved his life many times.
Edward Joseph O'Hare (September 5, 1893 – November 8, 1939), a.k.a. "Easy Eddie", was a lawyer in St. Louis and later in Chicago, where he began working with Al Capone, and later helped federal prosecutors convict Capone of tax evasion. In 1939, a week before Capone was released from Alcatraz, O'Hare was shot
Former President Donald Trump has claimed in speech after speech this fall that he has been indicted three more times than the infamous gangster Al Capone.. It’s not true. Trump, the front ...
Jack "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn (born Vincenzo Antonio Gibaldi; Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso anˈtɔːnjo dʒiˈbaldi]; July 2, 1902 – February 15, 1936) was a Sicilian-American boxer, mobster, and eventually a made man and caporegime in Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.