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Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land. Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular ...
Prohibition was established in 1920 with the enactment of the 18th Amendment, which banned the distribution of alcoholic beverages, resulting in bootlegging.Among the involved gangs were Dean O'Banion and his mostly Irish group, including Bugs Moran, who became known as the North Side Gang and Al Capone as the leader of the Italian mob on the South Side.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910.
The first bootlegger to be tried and convicted using federal income tax law, Sullivan's case is a test case that will open the way for notorious Prohibition bootleggers such as Chicago's Al Capone to be tried for their various crimes using the charge of income tax evasion.