Al Capone
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- Created on: 24-04-14 16:50
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- Al Capone
- known as scarface because of a fight with a bouncer
- choice of weapon - thompson machine gun
- rigged elections
- filling cars with gunmen paraded the streets slugging and kidnapping election workers
- polling places raided by armed thugs
- ballots taken at the point of a gun from the hands of voters waiting to drop them in the box.
- voters and workers were kidnapped
- prosecuted for income tax invasion in 1925-29
- st valentines massacre showed people gangsterism isnt glamerous
- notorious gangster in chicago
- bribed police officers
- controlled breweries, nightclubc, speakeasis and brothels
- joined 5 points gang ran by jonny torrio. 1921 - moved to chicago. took over the gang
- killed 200 rivals
- considered a hero because he opened soup kitchens after the wall street crash
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