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How Al "Scarface" Capone Got His Scars (2016x75)
Air date: Apr 18, 2016
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It was June 1931 when the law finally caught up with Al “Scarface” Capone for good. After three years of building a case against Capone for tax evasion, the FBI was finally ready to arrest and try the notorious gangster. In the October of that same year, he was found guilty on five counts of tax evasion between 1924 and 1929, two of which were felonies. He was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison, plus fines. Though Capone “grinned as though he felt he had gotten off easily,” his prison time ended up draining the last healthy years of his life. He was released in 1939 (after spending only seven years in prison), but illness and disease – most notably syphilis – ravaged his mental capacity so much that in the FBI report it said that he had “the mentality of a twelve year old.” He died in 1947 on Palm Island at the age of 48. Here’s the story of how Alphonse Gabriel Capone became Al “Scarface” Capone.
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Sources:
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=1_csAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT41&dq=Young+Al+Capone&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZFcAVbzzMfSRsQT42oLIBw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Galluccio&f=false
http://www.historynet.com/al-capone-a-new-book-about-the-crime-lord.htm
http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id108.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8i
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