Capone, Al

A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling, the illegal sale of alcohol, and prostitution. He was sent to prison in the 1930s for income tax evasion.

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What Nucky Johnson was not was a gangster, though he did go to prison for a short stint, like Al Capone, for tax evasion.

I look around the stairway, and I see Al Capone and another guy sitting in the living room having a beef about ‘receipts.’

The Chicago Crime Commission declared him Public Enemy No. 1, declaring that he was a bigger menace than Al Capone had ever been.

“Clearly more dangerous than Al Capone at his height,” the Chicago Crime Commission declared.

The result of Volstead can be summed up with one infamous name: Al Capone.

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