Biography of Al Capone - American Mafia Boss

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Alphonse Gabriel Capone (born January 17, 1899 - died January 25, 1947 at age 48 years), popularly known as Al Capone or Scarface, was an American Gangster who led the criminal syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and selling illegal liquor and illegal activity other during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and the 1930s. Mafia itself comes from the ancient Sicilian language, Mafiusu, which allegedly took mahyusu Arabic word which means refuge or hermitage.

After the revolution in 1848, the state of the island of Sicily messy so they need to form a sacred bond that protects them from attack another nation in this respect the Spanish people. Mafia name became famous after the play is played in 1863 with the title I mafiusi in la Vicaria (Cantiknya Vicaria people), which tells about the life of a criminal gang in the Palermo prison.

Although it is unclear who founded it, but the founding of this organization originally based on the bond of brotherhood among fellow ethnic island of Sicily. In the course of history, which was originally a small group became bigger and require more financial support so that the mission of founding the organization began to shift into looking for maximum profit with no heed to grammar rules of society to another. Surprisingly its members feel are not committing a crime because in their eyes, what it does is simply to provide protection or protection against other groups who experience pressure or blackmail. So that the perpetrators feel proud and honored to "help" someone from distress. Since then the word Mafiusu change its meaning into a person or organization "respectable." Another name of the Mafia is Cosa Nostra, its members always write these words with great respect that is written with initial capital letters. Understanding the Cosa Nostra itself is "our thing" or just as one nation, one thought or "our people." But in a book translation Mafia Manager by Bern Hidayat called Cosa Nostra that the translation is "none of our business.

Own Al Capone was born on January 17 with the original name of Alphonse Gabriel Capone, who is the fourth child of the couple Gabriele and Teresina Capone, Southern Italian immigrant who immigrated to the United States in 1893. In America the first Capone family lived at 95 Navy Street. When Al was 11 years, the Capone family moved to 21 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Al Capone dropped out of public schools in Brooklyn, he then worked odd jobs in Brooklyn include disebuah candy stores and bowling. During that Al Capone was influenced by Giovanni Torrio Alias John "Papa Johnny" Torrio also known as "The Fox" which later became his mentor. After pekejaannya as a petty thief, Al Capone joined the conspiracy of the famous Five Points Gang is bad. then he dpekerjakan sbagai bouncer at the Coney Island Dance Hall and Saloon by Frankie Yale Si Tukang feverish. This is where Al Capone received the scar he got a call that makes "Scarface".

On December 30, 1918, Al Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin an Irish woman and dkaruniai a child named Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone. Then about 1921, Al Capone and his small family mmutuskan moved to Chicago and stayed in a house at 7244 South Ave prairie, south of the city of Chicago. Capone came at the invitation of Torrio who are looking for business opportunities to trade goods ² dark. The period was Torrio get rich from the proceeds of crime James "Big Jim" Colosimo who was killed (allegedly killed by Frankie Yale, although the allegations were not proven because of lack of evidence) after refusing to enter new business areas and Al Capone during the period has also been charged with murder.

After the mayoral election, 1923, Chicago mayor William Emmett Dever elected to reform, the city of Chicago began to put pressure on the gangsters and criminals in the city of Chicago. This makes the gangsters and criminals stifling. To put its headquarters outside the city jurisdiction, Capone organization (the Chicago Outfit) enter by force into the Cicero, Illinois. They fought with criminals Cicero Myles O'Donnell and William "Klondike" O'Donnell to memperbutkan power in Cicero Town Centre. Victory is in the hands Capone, and Capone was a triumph of the most incredible city government takeover of Cicero in 1924. The war resulted in more than 200 people dead.


Capone (via his followers Murray The Hump), masterminded the killing of the most famous gang in the world of the 19th century, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. In chicago, on February 14, 1929, occurred the shooting of seven members of Bugs Moran Mafia gangsters are ruthless. Although the details of the murder is mentioned only seven victims who dtemukan disebuah 2212 North Clark Street garage but actually predicted the death toll is more than that. From the incident directly linked to Capone and his followers, especially Murray The Hump and Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn but no one ever charged with these events.

End of football lunge Al Capone himself not because of murder, assault, robbery, theft or bribery, but due to the smuggling case. Al Capone was arrested while smuggling liquor by an FBI agent named Eliot Ness, Al Capone who was eyeing a long time. The case that ultimately become the door for law enforcement in the U.S. to prosecute him in layers on the green table.

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