Top 12 Interesting & Frightening Al Capone facts
1. He got married at the age of 19.
2. With the aim of money laundering, Al Capone opened a whole chain of canteens in Chicago, where simply homeless and simply unemployed people were fed for free.
3. It was he who invented this kind of crime as racketeering.
4. When he was 26 years old, under his command there were more than a thousand bandits, and his monthly income exceeded 1.25 million dollars. And at its peak, the criminal empire brought him more than $ 60 million annually.
5. Al Capone’s personal Cadillac weighed 3.5 tonnes due to round trip bookings. There were hidden loopholes in the doors, and the rear window flipped open, allowing you to shoot at pursuers. Subsequently, this car was confiscated, and a little later, US President Roosevelt was carried on it.
6. The expression “money laundering” came about thanks to this gangster. In order to legalize income, he created a network of cheap laundries. From there this catch phrase also went.
7. The struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence in Chicago was serious. The Capone gang ousted all competitors, and in the course of the “gang wars” over five hundred people were killed in five years.
8. Officially, Al Capone had a furniture business. He covered his tracks so skillfully that they could not arrest him for many years without evidence. As a result, Al Capone was arrested not for his countless crimes, but for tax evasion. He was handed over by an undercover agent embedded in the gang.
9. He liked to say that a kind word and a gun can achieve more than just a kind word.
10. After his arrest, he was sent to prison for 11 years. At first, he even received visitors and continued to manage his criminal empire, but soon, by order of the head of the FBI and future President Hoover, he was transferred to the famous Alcatraz prison, where he began to work as a janitor. As a result, he was released 4 years earlier than he was supposed to, but by that time he had lost his influence.
11. The tomb of the king of the underworld is in Chicago, under an unremarkable stone slab with his name.
12. The life story of Al Capone is devoted to 13 films.
