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My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone - Paper

My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone

I am perhaps the best known gangster of all time and by far the most powerful mob boss of my era. My mob dominated the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931, when I was imprisoned for income tax evasion. This was the only crime the courts could prove against me because I was so good. I was born somewhere in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899 but nobody really knows for sure and that is how I am going to keep it. I grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. I attended school through the sixth grade and got too sick of it. I received my nickname Scarface during these years as a result of a knife attack from the brother of an ugly girl I had insulted which left three scares scars on my face. ...

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I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was managing more than 1,000 employees, which included a payroll of more than $300,000 a week. I demanded total loyalty from all of my numerous employees. During this time I became so rich that I gave out free food for Chicago’s unemployed which made me look like I had a heart of gold.
By 1927, I was grossing about $105,000,000 a year from various illegal operations (the average law-abiding US citizen in 1927 was taking home just $2,400 a year in pay). When appearing in public, I traveled in a seven-ton limousine. I had 18 bodyguards including the guy who gave me the scares on my face. I was a marked man by this time, and after several attempts on my life from a rival gang, I struck back with the St. Valentine’s Day ...

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Added: 8/20/2008 03:20:56 PM
Category: Biographies
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