Al Capone

Project paper I picked Al Capone because we share the same last name and everywhere I go I’m asked if there is any relation to him. I belive that Capone paved the way and opened the door for present day orgnizied crime. Al Capone is the best-known gangster of all time and by far the most powerful gangster of his era. His mob dominated the Chicago area from 1925 to 1931, until he was finally busted …

…his release, he never returned to Chicago. He had become mentally incapable of returning to the "mob life." He spent the rest of his life in Palm Island mansion with his wife and immediate family, in a secluded atmosphere. In 1946, his physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist both concluded that Al Capone had the mental ability of a 12-year-old child. He died due to a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947 because he was suffering from syphilis