Spotlight: Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion on this date in 1931. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Having gotten his start in crime in New York, Capone moved to Chicago in 1919 and by 1925 ruled Chicago's most ruthless underworld gang. He was suspected of controlling most of the gambling, alcohol and prostitution in Chicago, and it was his gang that was responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Eliot Ness and other FBIUntouchables, who had long pursued Capone, were, with the help of the IRS, finally able to bring Capone to some justice for evading paying his income tax.
Quote:"This American system of ours ... call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." – Al Capone
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Spotlight: Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion on this date in 1931. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Having gotten his start in crime in New York, Capone moved to Chicago in 1919 and by 1925 ruled Chicago's most ruthless underworld gang. He was suspected of controlling most of the gambling, alcohol and prostitution in Chicago, and it was his gang that was responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Eliot Ness and other FBI Untouchables, who had long pursued Capone, were, with the help of the IRS, finally able to bring Capone to some justice for evading paying his income tax.
