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In his book Capone, John Kobler attributes the phrase to the gangster Al Capone. [10] In the United States, Republicans accused their opponents of inviting such corruption with their support of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the "Motor Voter Law". [4]
During the mid to late 1920s, Belcastro was suspected of causing over 100 deaths while bombing saloons that refused to buy alcohol from Capone. During the 1927 Chicago primary elections – the so-called " Pineapple Primary " – Belcastro launched a bombing campaign against the opponents of Capone ally and Mayor, William Hale Thompson .
Although news accounts of period often reported Capone's birthplace as Sicily or Naples, Capone himself adamantly claimed to have been born in Brooklyn. The two major biographies, namely Luciano J. Iorizzo's Al Capone: A Biography and John Kobler's Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone, both claim his birthplace as Brooklyn, New York.
Kobler, John (1992). Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80499-1. Pasley, Fred D. (October 2013). Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-258-83353-4. Teitelbaum, Robert; Carter, Cindy (15 December 2014). Frogs and Snails and Mobster Tales: Growing Up in Al Capone's ...
During the later years of Prohibition the Sheldon Gang was suspected of supplying liquor to Capone rival Bugs Moran's North Side Gang. In the closing days of Prohibition and with the emergence of Lucky Luciano 's National Crime Syndicate the Sheldon Gang, like most of the remaining bootlegging gangs, were absorbed into the syndicate by 1932.
Kobler, John (1992). Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306804991. Donovan, Brian (2010). White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252091001. Eig, Jonathan (2014). Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster. Tantor ...
"Frank Rio, Once Bodyguard for Al Capone, Dies." Chicago Daily Tribune. February 24, 1935. Johnson, Curt and Sautter, R. Craig. The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. Paperback ed. Chicago: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8; Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81285-1
Joseph Francis Saltis (8 September 1894 [1] – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Rusyn American Prohibition era organized crime boss who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging crime family in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, until his territory was seized by Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit.