The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Fed Explains Al Capone & The Chicago Outfit

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00:02:59.300 tab over to that wikipedia page real fast for the people angie so here's al capone guys a famous mobster

00:03:04.520 uh alfonso gabriel capone uh capone born january 17 1899 died january 25th 1947 uh sometimes known by

00:03:12.700 the nickname scarface yeah not to be confused with al pacino by the way was an american gangster and

00:03:17.120 businessman who attended uh attained notoriety during the prohibition area era as a co-founder and boss

00:03:23.080 of the chicago outfit his seven-year crime reign his crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age

00:03:29.600 of 33 and as you guys know the chicago outfit was what the mafia called themselves out there in the

00:03:34.300 midwest they did not call themselves the mafia or la cosa nostra as they did back over on the east coast

00:03:39.740 of new york which is where al capone is originally from but they call themselves the chicago outfit so um

00:03:45.100 we're gonna go ahead guys and react to this documentary here um from the people uh biography

00:03:51.340 i think is named the youtube channel here um and yeah let's get right into it angie didn't want to

00:03:56.480 use this documentary because the guy has an accent it's hard for her to understand but we got the

00:03:59.580 subtitles for her so um yeah without further ado let's get into it

00:04:03.320 september 1926 a hail of gunfire is heard on the street outside the headquarters of the south side

00:04:13.380 gang in cicero illinois the machine guns ring out and the hawthorne inn is peppered with one thousand

00:04:20.520 shots each with the same target infamous south side gangster al capone but the mob boss escapes once more

00:04:29.400 either guided by luck security measures or by his informants capone seems invincible at least for now

00:04:38.280 the man known to history as alphonse gabriel capone was born on the 17th of january 1899 in brooklyn new york

00:05:03.780 in the united states of america his father was gabriel capone a barber who immigrated from angry

00:05:11.540 a small village just outside of naples in southern italy with his wife and alphonse's mother theresa

00:05:17.960 capone a pretty successful barber by the way guys um he had his own shop um and back then barbers were

00:05:24.140 very respected because a lot of them were literate they were typically educated so people would bring

00:05:28.520 their letters there so that the barbers can read it to them because so many people were illiterate back

00:05:32.840 then now and they also did bloodletting which back then well you know before refined medicine

00:05:37.220 that was a way to cure diseases so um capone's father actually was was a fairly successful guy he

00:05:43.960 had to save up his money obviously um but he ended up uh opening up his own barbershop uh out there in

00:05:49.940 new york city uh but yeah let's get right back to it well you have to remember that this was back in

00:05:54.260 the the era of the great depression yes in the u.s so many people didn't have you gotta put the camera 0.98

00:06:00.100 on yourself when you're talking right stupid um many people didn't have jobs and the unemployment 0.98

00:06:07.340 rate was like 25 percent only in brooklyn yeah bro that's crazy can you guys imagine you know one 1.00

00:06:14.580 quarter of the population not working that is wild you know they'll go they go crazy if we get close

00:06:19.160 to 10 percent unemployment rate imagine 25 percent so all right born teresa rayola a seamstress who 0.63

00:06:27.080 would have nine children with gabrielle the couple arrived in brooklyn in 1893 having first immigrated

00:06:34.740 to the port of rejeka in austria hungary present-day croatia their first residence being 95 navy street

00:06:41.700 in the navy yard area of downtown brooklyn before moving on to park slope in brooklyn when alphonse was 11

00:06:48.800 alphonse capone had eight brothers and sisters vincenzo who became a prohibition agent changing

00:06:56.100 his name to richard hart rafael james known as bottles who would go on to control his brother's

00:07:01.800 liquor empire salvatore known as frank who would also work for his brother al our sister amina who

00:07:08.300 died at the age of one amino known as john as well as albert matthew and a surviving sister

00:07:14.800 mafalda capone when he started school alphonse showed promise as a student bringing home excellent

00:07:22.260 results to his proud parents but he struggled keeping the rules of his strict catholic background

00:07:27.620 and would be expelled from school at the age of 14 for striking a female teacher in the face

00:07:33.380 and so after this incident his formal schooling stopped but his education into the criminal world

00:07:39.220 was just beginning surrounded by criminal influences which seemed an everyday part of

00:07:45.900 life in brooklyn at the time it was no surprise when al then graduated to gang life joining small

00:07:51.960 time gangs such as the bowery boys and junior 40 thieves after which he joined the brooklyn rippers

00:07:57.900 and eventually the five points gang the most powerful gang of the time which was based in lower manhattan

00:08:03.960 by 1917 and guys we talked more about the five points gang in a little bit more detail in the

00:08:10.940 first episode of uh the mafia aka la costa nostra origins and everything else like that in the

00:08:16.300 playlist so make sure to go back and watch that episode because it's going to explain a lot of the

00:08:19.980 terminology here that you might not be familiar with while watching this one let's get back to it

00:08:25.040 his employer and mentor was frankie yale who was a bootlegger and protection racketeer

00:08:30.680 who demanded payments from local businesses in order to protect or rather not harm them and from

00:08:36.400 the funds from his protection operation he opened up a bar called the harvard inn in coney island

00:08:41.780 where al worked for frankie as a bartender and doorman but he was also learning knowledge insights

00:08:47.560 and the workings of the criminal world from him at the same time but also the people who influenced

00:08:53.220 him at this time were the more salubrious characters such as gangster johnny torio who he came to admire

00:08:59.140 and saw as a mentor it was during this time that al would gain the nickname he hated scarface when

00:09:06.940 he was working as a doorman at the harvard inn and got into a fight with a local gangster one frankie

00:09:12.320 galuccio after inadvertently upsetting his vivacious and beautiful sister lena by insulting her with a 0.98

00:09:18.660 misjudged compliment about her posterior nice ass next thing you know what is that like this is what i 1.00

00:09:25.940 mean like you know this is what i mean that i don't understand this documentary what is posterior 0.98

00:09:32.280 how can you posterior it's it means her backside yeah i know i know but like how can you refer to 0.83

00:09:37.600 someone like backside like well he doesn't want to say uh he said nice ass he's saying it in a much 0.97

00:09:42.320 nicer way i guess still got a slice because of it but it is what it is and in the resulting drunken set 0.95

00:09:50.440 two galuccio slashed capone with a knife which would leave a noticeable scar on the left side of

00:09:55.600 his face for the rest of his life capone was always conscious of this scar and would have photographs

00:10:02.220 taken from the other side to avoid it being seen he also claimed it was a war wound gained from quote

00:10:08.020 a german gunner in the trenches of world war one although this was not true yeah no military service

00:10:14.360 had never served in the war however a more favored nickname for al was one given to him by his

00:10:20.120 closest friends which was snorky a name for a smart dresser and as well as this other nicknames he was

00:10:26.000 given included big al big boy and public enemy number one following this incident with frankie

00:10:33.220 galuccio capone was aching for revenge although he was forced to reconcile with the local villain

00:10:38.600 instead by other high-ranking gangsters which he did and galuccio apologized for causing the scar

00:10:44.300 and capone promised not to seek retribution against him and i think uh this got settled

00:10:49.360 through masseria who again guys watch that first episode we talk about the origins of the mafia and 0.96

00:10:53.800 we talk about the whole casemarie's war uh between uh masseria and the other guy um damn it

00:11:00.600 maranzano thank you very much um so at the time masseria was one of the bosses so capone had to go

00:11:07.800 through him to get this thing resolved and him and that other guy ended up making up so um so yeah let's get

00:11:13.500 back into it watch that first episode guys it's gonna answer a lot of these questions yeah it's

00:11:17.880 very important so you can understand all this stuff in better context and she stuck to even when he

00:11:22.600 became a mob boss himself one reason al decided to reconcile with galuccio was that he recognized

00:11:29.920 his own fault in the matter and saw that galuccio was merely respecting and protecting his own family

00:11:35.260 and such a code would be a potent factor in how gangland families operated at the time

00:11:40.700 as family respect and loyalty would be key to how these gangsters lived despite operating outside

00:11:46.820 of the law in effect they had their own moral law or code which they saw as sacrosanct

00:11:52.040 indeed family was everything to many italian american gangsters of this time and so when al's

00:11:58.840 girlfriend may josephine conglin gave birth to al's son albert francis sunny capone in december 1918

00:12:05.660 the only thing to be done was for the pair to marry which they did only a few weeks later on the

00:12:11.060 30th of december may had been working in a local department store when she met al and when he married

00:12:17.980 this irish catholic girl he was only 19 and she was 21 and so because he was under the legal age required

00:12:24.640 he had to obtain the consent of his parents in writing in order to marry but their marriage

00:12:29.460 would be a very happy one right up until the end shortly after his marriage to may al was asked by

00:12:36.640 johnny torio to make the move to chicago and al was happy to oblige his friend as well as make a new

00:12:42.360 start for him and his family in the windy city and so in 1919 capone left brooklyn for chicago and began

00:12:49.700 working as a bouncer in a brothel where he contracted syphilis and it appears with hindsight

00:12:54.840 man

00:12:55.360 got that sif got that that sti man from being in a whorehouse let's get treatment with a newly 1.00

00:13:05.820 introduced drug called salvarsan could probably have cured him but it seems that al never sought

00:13:11.140 treatment until it was too late

00:13:13.220 the reason for the now notorious surge in organized crime across the united states in the 1920s was in

00:13:21.200 large part due to the continued demand across the country for alcohol despite its sale and consumption

00:13:26.980 being mostly illegal under the 18th amendment to the united states constitution of 1919 as well as the

00:13:34.000 prohibition or volstead act that was ratified in january of 1919

00:13:38.380 there had been a growing clamor for the banning of alcohol across the united states since the 1800s

00:13:45.620 especially amongst the more puritanical protestant christian members of the population whose campaigns

00:13:51.220 against the sale of liquor became more and more vocal and forthright as the decades passed and was

00:13:56.900 led by particularly ardent temperance supporters such as carrie nation who became famous in 1900 for

00:14:03.520 embarking on a divinely ordained rampage of violence across kansas in which she smashed up 1.00

00:14:09.300 numerous bars and saloons with rocks and hatchets

00:14:12.220 of course you had to be a feminist of course i had to be the feminist messing it up for everybody man aka 1.00

00:14:17.640 wrong but um and we talk about this once again guys don't want to rehash it again but in the first episode

00:14:23.360 we talk about how much the prohibition era was huge and the mafia making money uh if you were to use it in

00:14:28.760 today's dollars guys these dudes were making billions and a big part of the push for prohibition

00:14:33.340 in the united states back then was women basically being battered by their drunken husbands

00:14:36.920 so uh let's keep going claiming that god had told her to do so

00:14:41.780 despite the more militant campaigners against alcohol many of whom were women who had suffered

00:14:48.160 at the hands of drunken husbands a case for reform that's why women deserve less guys let's keep going 1.00

00:14:54.180 okay you just said that after they book in stores book in stores right now guys go get it you just

00:14:59.640 said that after they said like they got beaten by their drunken husband hey man they're ruining the

00:15:04.020 booze for everybody right so yeah yeah well then now they know well congratulations now they created

00:15:08.860 the mafia and made them billionaires but in today's dollars grew and grew until eventually 46 states

00:15:15.680 most of whose politicians and officials were now under massive pressure to pass the 18th amendment

00:15:20.760 eventually gave in meaning that by the beginning of the 1920s the sale and consumption of the vast

00:15:26.820 majority of alcoholic beverages was illegal in america nonetheless many people especially those of

00:15:34.020 italian and irish background or heritage had no intention of abstaining from alcohol consumption

00:15:39.200 and so it wasn't long before a massive black market industry sprang up across america which played

00:15:45.040 directly into the hands of the grateful underworld that chick is pouring liquor guys um go 1.00

00:15:50.600 hit the closed caption real quick there in the corner um angie see on the bottom right corner

00:15:54.780 just so we can read what it says there woman pouring liquor hidden in cane into drink 1.00

00:15:58.300 bro if that is an alcoholism i don't know what it is that right there is that that that's a first

00:16:05.840 i've never seen that before that lady was like i gotta get lit today but today by any means necessary 1.00

00:16:10.920 okay i'm gonna walk correctly and i'm gonna get drunk at the same time as well it's so funny that she's

00:16:15.480 smiling yeah she's just like hey look at me yeah and alcohol is extremely like prohibited yeah and 0.98

00:16:21.600 it probably tasted terrible too walking in a freaking cane coming from a cane god damn all right 1.00

00:16:26.100 increasingly close caption again ate a fortune from shipping and selling liquor across the country 0.97

00:16:31.740 in defiance of prohibition meanwhile life for the capone family in chicago was going well

00:16:38.760 and in 1923 l purchased a small house at 7244 south prairie avenue in park manor on the south side of

00:16:47.020 the city for five thousand five hundred dollars um angie on another screen go ahead and google that

00:16:52.720 real quick that address i want to see what that looks like now and he bought that for five oh the

00:16:56.720 address yeah rewind it like real fast like five seconds just tap yep he purchased small house at seven

00:17:02.280 at seven two four i think he means seven two four hit hit play again let's see here

00:17:08.760 in park manor on the south side of the city hit hit yeah hit the arrow back one more time

00:17:13.780 one more time all right go ahead i'll go was going well and in 1923 l purchased a small house

00:17:21.360 at seven two four four south prairie avenue in park okay seven two four four south prairie avenue part

00:17:28.320 um in uh chicago so just put that in google keep playing but it's a manor on the south side of the

00:17:34.400 city for five thousand five hundred dollars and began making his name as a boxing promoter but this

00:17:40.280 was merely a cover as in reality he was working for a crime organization headed by johnny torio who in

00:17:46.800 turn had taken over from chicago crime boss james big jim colosimo at that time at the height of the

00:17:54.580 prohibition era the chicago outfit or south side gang as it was and just you guys know um 5500 back in

00:18:01.380 that time was about 97 572 dollars today okay so almost 100 grand uh 5500 back then i was looking

00:18:10.620 bad as well yeah and then what what's did you find the address no i'm looking for it yeah seven two four

00:18:15.340 four uh south i think prairie it was it's also known south prairie avenue yeah in chicago in park

00:18:23.120 manor yeah i want to see i want to see what that looks like now okay yeah keep going yeah was a growing

00:18:27.320 illicit organization consisting of illegal stills and breweries and a transport network that reached

00:18:33.160 canada protected through bribes by politicians as well as law enforcement agencies as well as this

00:18:39.020 the racket was also grown through fear with businesses who refused to buy the illicit liquor

00:18:43.920 being blown up and it is thought that as many as 100 people could have been killed in such bombings

00:18:49.600 during the 1920s pause capone had a point that just goes to show guys how they control things the

00:18:55.900 fact that they were able to blow people up that weren't buying their liquor or protested their

00:19:00.040 liquor lets you know that the power uh that the chicago outfit had back then um also uh as you guys

00:19:07.100 have realized now from us covering all these crime families um bribery once again being one of the you

00:19:12.480 know bread and butters of the la cosa nostra because for them to be able to bribe politicians that's how 1.00

00:19:17.880 they're able to get their rackets done without too much impedance right um if you're going to go

00:19:23.160 ahead and be selling liquor and doing illegal gambling dens and betting on horses and you know

00:19:28.680 killing people and all this other stuff well you're going to need some politicians in your back pocket

00:19:32.140 to evade detection from law enforcement okay here you go this is what it looks like now yeah oh okay

00:19:37.760 worth uh 334 000 hours so okay all right um so it so uh appreciated quite a bit of value

00:19:45.780 um so that's what his house it probably was different back then because this house was

00:19:52.180 built when when was this house built probably yeah scroll down it'll tell you what year it was built

00:19:55.960 um keep going keep going this is on redfin uh oh you're built 1915 so that's the same house

00:20:03.220 because he bought it in 1923 right yeah yeah same house wow that's crazy guys this is al capone's old

00:20:10.620 crib i'm surprised it's not worth uh it's not worth more but nobody knows nobody knows that

00:20:17.960 al capone lived there yeah all right cool enough yeah they don't even know probably let's get back

00:20:24.200 to it shot for the high life wearing expensive bespoke suits smoking cigars and eating only the

00:20:30.240 best food he also had a liking for female company and was also known to wear expensive showy jewelry

00:20:36.300 well that's why i ended up with syphilis definitely likes that female company 1.00

00:20:40.060 and he reveled in the attention he received such as being cheered at his arrival at ball games

00:20:48.200 and felt he was a modern day robin hood making charitable donations from his vast illicit wealth

00:20:54.000 but when questioned about his activities and lifestyle his falsely humble response might be

00:20:59.220 quote i am just a businessman giving the people what they want or all i do is satisfy a public demand

00:21:06.060 it seems he had become a celebrity before celebrity had been invented

00:21:10.580 nonetheless in 1923 a change had come about in the form of political reform as in chicago the

00:21:19.140 reformist william emmett diva was appointed mayor and to avoid potential interference and

00:21:24.440 investigation this is crazy guys what they what they did to make sure this guy gets elected check this

00:21:29.720 out capone and torio decided to move their base of operations to the chicago suburbs and the town

00:21:37.500 of cicero illinois and so al capone based himself and the rest of the south side gang there from where

00:21:43.400 he grew the operation they set up illicit brothels speakeasies and gambling dens and expanded the liquor 0.64

00:21:51.540 operation to supply all of cicero's saloons even using bribery and intimidation to take over local town

00:21:57.880 elections such as the 1924 cicero municipal elections and this veneer of respectability made

00:22:04.680 it difficult for the north side gang to get to him and was an opportunity for capone to not only

00:22:09.660 protect himself from rival gangs who sought to take over his rum running monopoly but also prevent

00:22:14.520 the election of more reformist politicians the incumbent mayor of cicero was the corrupt republican

00:22:21.740 joseph zed klanner who along with his bipartisan administration had received hardly any opposition

00:22:27.640 in the elections running cicero by then for three consecutive terms the corrupt administration had

00:22:33.560 been controlled by the south side gang with the help of al's brother salvatore capone better known as

00:22:39.240 frank but in 1924 the democratic party decided it would mount a challenge and run its own candidates in

00:22:45.760 the election mounting a serious challenge to the status quo with their threat to clean up the town

00:22:51.300 the first of april 1924 was the date set for the election but klanner had decided he needed help to

00:22:59.680 secure a win and so he offered the chicago outfit an effective immunity from prosecution in cicero

00:23:05.620 capone and his cronies were only too happy to oblige and brought in 200 men members of his own gang

00:23:11.960 plus members from other allied gangs and the contingent gathered included capone's brothers frank and

00:23:18.020 ralph as well as his cousin charles fachetti the gang would begin a targeted campaign of stabbing

00:23:25.260 shootings kidnappings and general intimidation to make sure that klanner was elected mayor once again

00:23:31.140 and to achieve that they started on the 31st of may the eve of the election with the democratic nominee

00:23:37.500 for town clerk william k plowm who had his face beaten and his offices ransacked as well as this

00:23:43.900 yeah that's how you that's how you do democracy baby that's how you do it baby welcome to chicago

00:23:52.720 let's keep going life was thrown against a wall the terror continued the following day the 1st of april

00:24:00.380 election day when the voters faced submachine guns and sawn-off shotguns at the polling booths

00:24:06.000 to ensure that their votes were cast for klanner and when their votes were for him they were allowed

00:24:10.880 to vote multiple times but those who dared to resist their persuasion were either prevented from voting

00:24:16.480 or beaten as well as this cars were roaming the streets filled with gunmen and several individuals

00:24:23.840 were targeted such as democrat rudolph hurt who was standing for mayor whose campaign headquarters

00:24:29.520 was sprayed with gunfire and his fellow democrat the challenger for city clerk was pistol whipped in

00:24:35.360 front of his family as well as his supporters and then in the campaign headquarters of another

00:24:40.160 opponent frank capone himself beat up several campaign officials and ransacked the office

00:24:46.400 he was gonna make sure this guy was gonna win yeah by any means by any means necessary man 0.93

00:24:52.880 he smacks the crap out of him out of his opponents just like forget about it don't say 0.75

00:24:57.280 nothing to the police or else we coming back for you man let's keep going the chaos continued with polling 0.99

00:25:03.120 stations being raided and ballots snatched from voters hands other voters were even shot or stabbed or

00:25:09.280 beaten by so-called sluggers in the street whilst one campaign official called joseph price was tied

00:25:15.360 up and gagged before being battered by the gangsters another democratic official named stanley stankovich

00:25:21.760 was taken to a chicago basement blindfolded and kept there until after the polling stations had closed to

00:25:28.000 prevent him from voting up to 20 others were chained to posts and pipes in the basement of a plumbing

00:25:33.200 store to prevent them voting and a police officer was beaten after being disarmed of his gun

00:25:40.240 one democrat a campaigner named michael gavin was shot in both of his legs and kept with eight other

00:25:46.800 campaign workers in the basement of a mob-owned chicago hotel to prevent them voting and when a call

00:25:52.880 from help from the campaigners finally reached cook county judge edmund k jaraki late that afternoon

00:25:59.360 he sent 70 chicago police officers made up of five squads of detectives and nine squads of police and

00:26:05.520 vehicles to help subdue the chaos and confusion in cicero the police response included a squad car

00:26:13.120 carrying both uniformed police and detectives who spotted al his brother frank capone as well as

00:26:19.120 henchmen dave hedlin and charles fischetti and straight away the policeman jumped out of the car

00:26:24.560 withdrawn weapons and a gun battle ensued between the men in which frank capone was shot and killed

00:26:30.240 and hedlin was wounded but al capone escaped as did fischetti who later surrendered himself

00:26:37.120 capone gave his brother a funeral that was lavish and opulent the flowers provided by local bootlegger and

00:26:43.120 florist dino banion cost twenty thousand dollars alone and the mourners wailed for the loss of one

00:26:49.120 so young but observing from a distance were the very same police officers who had shot and killed

00:26:54.080 frank capone there possibly to elicit a reaction just so you guys know twenty thousand dollars back then

00:26:59.840 was worth about three hundred and fifty four thousand dollars today man but basically 355k is what it

00:27:06.320 would have cost to run that have that funeral in today's dollars wild how much how much 355 000 0.99

00:27:12.800 wow yep so a quarter million yeah over a quarter million hundred k over yep that's an expensive uh

00:27:19.360 funeral man it's very expensive from the mob boss but it didn't come at least not at the funeral

00:27:26.800 you know if you think about it it costed more than his house yeah cost him way more than his house

00:27:32.320 an occupational hazard for capone in his time as boss of the mob in cicero was the many attempts on

00:27:39.280 his own life from other gang members as well as the threat of arrest at any time his bribery and

00:27:44.640 corruption of local politicians safeguarded him to an extent that he and his entourage was still

00:27:50.000 vulnerable and so al was very security conscious as a result indeed in the early 20s capone's driver

00:27:56.480 was found tortured and murdered and jaime weiss narrowly escaped from an attempt on his life in the

00:28:01.600 chicago loop the business district of downtown chicago jake's capone's friend johnny torio had

00:28:08.720 taken over from colosimo after he was killed on the 11th of may 1920 his was a murder which many

00:28:14.880 believed at the time capone was involved with but in his new role capone put his new york mouse to good

00:28:20.720 use by negotiating in gang war disagreements and creating treaties between the various groups

00:28:26.400 becoming known as an arbitrator of sorts furthermore the deals were made so that torio

00:28:31.600 this is something that lucky luciano was very good at as well whenever you're the boss you got

00:28:35.040 a big target on your back and one of the ways to keep yourself alive a lot of times guys is to be a

00:28:39.040 mediator and advocate for peace so that they don't want to kill you so um it was very good that uh capone

00:28:44.560 was able to to do this and it probably extended his life significantly well back then didn't exist

00:28:50.400 the the commission or did it it did exist but it was in new york it was uh yes it did exist it did exist but

00:28:56.880 most of the families were concentrated in new york they were a lot more um uh organized in new

00:29:01.280 york than they were in chicago because there were more crime families in new york so they had to work

00:29:05.520 they had to work together versus and chicago is a little bit more wild which is why they were

00:29:10.240 doing the crazy stuff that they were doing beating up you know campaign uh candidates and stuff like 0.98

00:29:15.360 that well i think it's someone as well put the camera on yourself i think it's stupid oh okay i think 0.85

00:29:22.800 it's someone as well like all the families because uh whenever they will have like a a problem between 0.86

00:29:28.800 the mafias uh they will have to call like all the families into a commission even the pennsylvania ones

00:29:35.840 you know yes yes yes and that was like for very big disputes that they would have

00:29:40.960 these commission meetings um but yeah i mean out there in chicago they were kind of on their own

00:29:45.280 so it's good that capone took a more active step to be a mediator but let's get back to it

00:29:51.040 those italian organized crime group would remain the biggest in the city and one of the most

00:29:55.680 prominent of the deals that capone brokered was a deal over the control of territory between the

00:30:00.480 infamous north side gang and the jenner brothers the jenner brothers were allied with torio as

00:30:07.040 was dean o'banyan head of the north side gang who were a group of mixed ethnicity criminals and the 1.00

00:30:12.320 brothers had begun selling cheap booze to o'banyan's customers and not only did torio seem to ignore what

00:30:18.000 was going on he also either sanctioned or arranged himself for the murder of o'banyan at his flower

00:30:23.440 shop which was the legal front to his own illicit operations on the 10th of november 1924 where he

00:30:29.600 was shot whilst clipping chrysanthemums by brooklyn crime boss frankie yale and jenna gunman albert

00:30:35.440 anselme and john scalese o'banyan had been known for his bizarre behavior a childlike wide grin and

00:30:43.440 back slapping anyone knew he met he had gunned down a man in front of crowds for no good reason

00:30:48.720 and killed a man he met at al's club the four juices bringing unwanted attention to the gangsters but

00:30:54.400 when he trekked torio into being present at his brewery when he knew a raid was about to occur

00:30:59.280 which ended in torio's arrest o'banyan's boasting of what he had done sealed his fate

00:31:05.760 this resulted in a change of the hierarchy of the north side gang and it was now headed by jaime

00:31:11.280 vice with the help of his second in commands vincent rukey and bugs moran and as o'banyan

00:31:17.040 had been a good friend of jaime vice the northsiders had only one thing on their mind by this point

00:31:22.240 and that was revenge for this was just the beginning of what would be a five-year gang war between the

00:31:28.320 two factions and so in january 1925 it came as no surprise when first capone was ambushed leaving him

00:31:37.520 unharmed but shaken up by the experience and then only 12 days later torio himself was shot

00:31:43.440 when returning from a shopping trip the experience leaving him deeply affected he decided to effectively

00:31:49.440 resign and in control of the chicago outfit as it was known to capone at the age of only 26.

00:31:56.720 oh there was a further attack from the north so just you guys know that's the equivalent of being the

00:32:02.560 the boss like uh as you guys know there was a structure in new york where you had the boss

00:32:07.280 the consigliere the under boss and underneath them is a set of capos and then under them are

00:32:11.840 the soldiers who are all the maid guys so now capone effectively owned and ran chicago which as a top

00:32:19.440 guy now you got an even bigger target on your back but he already had a target on his back before

00:32:23.680 now he's got an even bigger one you know um yeah um i've read somewhere that al capone along with

00:32:31.600 michael francisi was where were the ones like biggest mobsters that will make the the highest

00:32:37.200 of money in the whole mafia history yes they were some of the biggest earners for sure yeah and well

00:32:42.000 i read somewhere that al capone actually had like a made like a thousand a hundred thousand million

00:32:50.800 dollars just like a hundred thousand million that doesn't make sense a hundred thousand a hundred

00:32:56.560 thousand dollars no no no million a hundred million he had made a hundred million yeah probably yeah if

00:33:03.040 you took the money he made back then yeah he probably made a hundred million in today's dollars for sure

00:33:09.280 i mean it was prohibition and he ran it in chicago so yeah maybe he did make it a hundred million back

00:33:13.680 then which would be worth like a billion dollars nowadays yeah that's what so yeah i wouldn't be surprised

00:33:18.320 because dude prohibition these guys made a killing off of prohibition so uh people still wanted to

00:33:24.800 drink yeah they still were making like loads of money yeah all right let's get back to it side gang

00:33:31.120 on the 20th of september 1926 when they attempted to draw capone to the window of his hawthorne in

00:33:37.360 headquarters several gunmen opened fire on the first floor of the restaurant with thompson's submachine

00:33:42.640 guns firing over 1 000 shots but capone was unharmed and called for a truce followed by

00:33:48.960 negotiations which took place but achieved nothing only three weeks after this the head of the north

00:33:56.080 side gang jaime vice was killed by the south side gang outside the flower shop that had been owned by

00:34:02.080 dino banyan which now acted as the north side headquarters of the gang and in january 1927 the

00:34:08.240 owner of hawthorne's restaurant who was a good friend of capone's was killed in retaliation by

00:34:13.200 bugs moran and drukey after being kidnapped by them the continuation of the turf wars prompted a

00:34:20.640 further security measure when capone began spending more time away from chicago and it was not unusual

00:34:26.800 for the whole capone entourage to turn up at a chicago train station and hire a complete pullman sleeper

00:34:33.040 car to take them on various breaks to places such as little rock hot springs kansas city omaha or

00:34:39.200 cleveland for a week in a luxurious hotel which they booked using false names as a more permanent

00:34:46.400 retreat capone purchased a 14-room mansion in 1928 and it is said that capone paid 40 000 to august bush

00:34:54.960 a beer magnet from missouri for this retreat at 93 palm avenue on palm island in biscayne bay miami florida

00:35:02.560 but the house would not be registered in his name neither would any other property in fact he

00:35:07.520 didn't even have a bank let's get that address on the on the uh google real quick um in miami and

00:35:14.240 it's 40 000 in 19 this is 1924 now uh so let's go ahead and so it's uh the 93 hang on let me hear

00:35:23.200 the guy speaking because august bush a beer magnet from missouri for this retreat at 93 palm avenue okay 93 palm

00:35:31.920 avenue miami florida well on wait no no no 93 palm avenue and then he says on biscayne go ahead hit

00:35:39.280 on palm island in biscayne bay miami okay biscayne bay okay palm avenue on palm island okay so that's

00:35:46.400 that's up palm beach that's not that's not miami florida probably okay palm island that's and yeah

00:35:53.040 palm island i think it's in bay yeah and biscayne bay it can be in biscayne no no like an address

00:36:00.480 around there biscayne is large yeah biscayne isn't yeah biscayne goes all the way up to west palm beach

00:36:05.520 though so what i think is it's it's palm 93 palm avenue in palm bay and palm island and palm island

00:36:14.080 yeah yeah that's the address yeah palm palm island is you want me to put it up oh yeah put it up let's

00:36:19.520 see what it looks like nowadays okay let me let me florida but the house would not be registered in

00:36:24.160 his name neither would any other property in fact he didn't even have a bank account but instead he

00:36:30.000 used western union for cash deliveries nonetheless he was a prolific contributor to charity real quick

00:36:35.920 forty thousand dollars back then guys was worth seven hundred nine thousand dollars today so about

00:36:40.640 seven hundred ten thousand so quite a bit of money back then let's keep going how much sorry it was uh

00:36:48.720 forty thousand dollars back then was worth about seven hundred ten thousand dollars today it's a

00:36:53.520 hundred ten thousand yeah yeah yeah big money man all that booze he was selling he didn't care

00:36:58.880 plus you can't put a price on your safety you have to get the hell out of chicago 0.81

00:37:02.080 yeah all right but let me know when you have that and even helped set up a soup kitchen in chicago

00:37:06.240 during the depression all moves intended to bolster his popularity with the common people

00:37:11.600 during his life capone used political alliances to his advantage for example he supported william

00:37:19.200 hale thompson with a donation of 250 000 when the republican candidate for the 1920 i know this

00:37:26.240 this is the uh it says in here that it's uh capone is mentioned oh it does say that yeah pull it up

00:37:32.080 on screen miami beach pull it up uh look at this yeah does it have a uh does it have um

00:37:41.680 like a like a google maps you can like look at it yeah well it says that it's this one okay so that's

00:37:47.440 it holy look at that they call it al capone's mansion that's hilarious yeah it's you know it's

00:37:54.880 in miami beach okay that's why they say beach game bay i understand now well it's in here

00:38:02.480 okay so it's behind star island you can see i knew i knew i i heard that the address somewhere

00:38:07.280 because you can see it from you can take like a boat from the biscayne the bayside bay you know

00:38:14.320 where the marketplace is yes you can take a boat and they can take you can see it this place okay okay

00:38:20.160 all right hit dismiss by the way right there just hit dismiss okay interesting interesting yeah

00:38:24.080 okay pretty cool 27 mayoral election for chicago hinted in his campaign that he would allow illegal

00:38:33.200 drinking saloons to be reopened which would obviously be a major opportunity for capone's

00:38:38.560 illegal bootlegging business to thrive after this thompson beat his reformist rival william emmet diva

00:38:46.400 and became mayor of chicago in 1927 and continued to receive the support of capone which allowed their

00:38:52.640 mutually profitable relationship to continue right up until 1929 when an event which later became known

00:38:59.280 as the saint valentine's day massacre was to crack capone's thin veneer of legitimacy altogether

00:39:04.960 and would also endanger the informal immunity from police prosecution he had enjoyed through his

00:39:10.480 alliance with thompson nevertheless bugs moran was a thorn in the side of capone and a hated enemy and

00:39:18.080 now leader of the north side gang following the death of jaime vice and there was no love lost between

00:39:23.680 them from either side because as well as being competition for each other's bootlegging operations 0.97

00:39:29.040 moran disliked the fact that capone was involved in prostitution rackets

00:39:33.360 as it was against his catholic principles and so the continuing tit-for-tat killings and violence

00:39:39.040 came to a head on the morning of thursday the 14th of february 1929 the day of the saint valentine's

00:39:45.280 day massacre oh boy capone had hatched a plan against moran by renting an apartment across the road from

00:39:52.160 moran's headquarters and watching the movements of his men capone arranged for a phone call on the 13th

00:39:58.080 which told bugs there was to be a delivery of whiskey from detroit the following day at a bargain price

00:40:03.760 so he agreed and asked for the delivery at 10 30 the next morning at the smc cartage company on north

00:40:10.160 clark street where his bootleg operation vehicles were kept but when the truck arrived capone had

00:40:15.600 arranged for a fake police raid to take place by two gunmen dressed in plain clothes and two dressed to

00:40:22.080 chicago police officers who lined up seven of bugs moran's men against a wall supposedly to search

00:40:27.920 them but when a signal was given the men were moaned down in cold blood by the accomplices machine guns

00:40:34.080 and shotguns bugs himself escaped the attack having slept in that morning despite having been the main

00:40:41.520 target of the hit but i guess that's how you get rid of your ops right there man holy wow it's good

00:40:47.360 a fallout of the hit for capone especially when the photographs of the slain victims were published

00:40:52.240 was a decline in his image and standing with the public and it also earned him the new nickname

00:40:57.360 public enemy number one and led to questions about the appropriateness of his close ties with thompson

00:41:02.880 the mayor of chicago the emergency services did not arrive promptly at the scene due to neighbors

00:41:09.760 thinking that the police were already in attendance because of the presence of two men dressed as police

00:41:14.800 officers and once they did arrive six of the men were already dead the one surviving man frank

00:41:20.400 gusenberg was taken to hospital refusing to identify his killers so as to keep the gangster's code

00:41:26.400 but he later died bugs moran's reaction to the complete carnage of the attack was to break the

00:41:33.280 gangster's code himself and inform the police that it was capone who arranged the attack this resulted

00:41:39.360 in a summons to court for capone to answer charges but he denied all responsibility and

00:41:44.560 claimed he was sick and so could not attend court this happened twice and eventually the charges were

00:41:49.840 dropped it seems his tactics had worked al capone was known as someone who let others do his dirty

00:41:56.720 work for him but one story persists which suggests that this wasn't always true this story starts with

00:42:03.120 a dinner and a night of drinking for several of capone's men including scalizi anselmi and giunta three men

00:42:10.240 who capone believed had been conspiring against him with another gangster and the story goes the

00:42:15.840 capone himself beat the men about the head with a baseball bat before ordering his men to shoot them

00:42:21.440 but some historians have questioned the veracity of this story although it was reported in the

00:42:26.320 newspapers at the time and one associate of capone's claimed to have witnessed both the planning of the

00:42:31.440 attack and the incident itself during 1929 attempts to bring public enemy number one to justice were

00:42:39.520 intensified and on the 27th of march 1929 fbi agents arrested capone as he left a courtroom after

00:42:47.840 testifying to a grand jury investigating prohibition law violations the charge they brought was the feigning

00:42:54.320 of illness which he had used to avoid earlier prosecution and then on the 16th of may 19 they

00:43:00.080 basically got him for faking uh being sick uh which is hilarious but um but yeah i mean guys it was

00:43:06.240 really hard for them to get al capone or anything and you're gonna see what they eventually did get

00:43:09.600 him on 29 capone was arrested again when in philadelphia on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon this

00:43:17.280 time he was sent to trial and found guilty and received a sentence of one year in prison

00:43:22.160 i think by this time he was um 33 years old yeah uh well yeah was he no well didn't they say they

00:43:30.480 arrested him at 29 the first time i think they said he he died when he was 33 he died when he was

00:43:37.600 yeah he died when he was 33 i think you got it confused all right let's keep on the 8th of august

00:43:42.080 1929 capone was sent to eastern state penitentiary in philadelphia and he was released in march 1930 but

00:43:49.680 in april 1930 capone was next arrested on vagrancy charges whilst visiting miami beach as the governor

00:43:56.400 had ordered that he should be expelled from the state and during his arrest capone claimed that the

00:44:01.840 police had threatened his family with arrest and refused him food and water he was then further

00:44:07.200 charged with yeah he was 31 by this now like 1930 yeah because he was born in 1899 so yeah so yeah

00:44:14.000 yeah yeah that makes sense all right perjury for making these claims but after a three-day trial in

00:44:19.520 july he was found not guilty then in september a court judge issued a warrant for capone's arrest

00:44:27.360 on charges of vagrancy once again and the judge then stood against thompson in the republican primary

00:44:32.880 election making good use of the publicity he had stirred up to foster votes and in february 1931 capone

00:44:40.240 faced another trial this time on the charge of contempt of court due to his illness claims and

00:44:45.680 judge james herbert do you imagine that playing hooky from court and they just they're just trying

00:44:50.240 to get him on any charge you guys could see here yeah because he's making too much money and he's

00:44:54.240 beating some of these cases where he's getting no time so they're just trying to get anything to

00:44:57.760 stick at this point it's incredible how these guys like i the more powerful they get they they can

00:45:04.960 get ahead of and like not get charged with anything yeah especially back then yeah exactly because

00:45:10.480 these guys these guys were the equivalent of billionaires today back then you know they

00:45:15.440 were multi-millionaires back then so they were billionaires in today's dollars they were more than

00:45:19.920 yeah they were yeah they're like billionaires in today's dollars they just will rent like

00:45:23.520 will have power over the the government yeah yeah they were like elon musk but like criminals yeah you

00:45:29.280 know what i mean exactly all right made a point of questioning further the testimony of capone's

00:45:34.800 doctor thus aiding the prosecutor and capone was sentenced to six months in prison but remained free

00:45:40.640 for the time being as he had appealed the decision the law was trying every which way to bring capone

00:45:47.280 to justice when assistant attorney general mabel walker willebrand realized that there may be another way

00:45:54.000 she saw that the luxurious lifestyles of the mobsters must be backed up by a substantial income yet she

00:46:00.160 recognized that they never filed income tax returns and so mabel came up with the idea of prosecuting the

00:46:06.560 gangsters for tax evasion that way they could be convicted without the very difficult to acquire

00:46:12.000 testimony of their other illegal deeds and violent crimes so keep in mind guys recall laws were not in

00:46:18.320 place so they couldn't get people to testify against these guys because they were scared so they weren't able

00:46:23.440 to prosecute them as an organization so how do they do it well well you guys aren't paying your taxes

00:46:29.440 let's keep going she tried out this approach in the case of united states versus manly sullivan

00:46:35.200 an illegal bootlegger and the outcome of the case was that justice oliver wendell holmes jr

00:46:40.640 found that illegally earned income should be subject to income tax and the plea of the fifth amendment

00:46:46.560 to protect criminals from reporting illegal income was invalid

00:46:49.760 after this the internal revenue service or irs chose frank j wilson to investigate capone's tax

00:46:58.000 matters but also his lawyers had been ordered by capone to get his tax position into good order

00:47:03.840 and so they declared income that was taxable for 1928 and 1929 of 100 000 for each year and as he

00:47:11.440 hadn't paid tax on that amount okay you're gonna get that a hundred thousand dollars yeah that's

00:47:16.560 that's what they were saying that he was supposed to be making that he didn't claim okay so all right

00:47:20.800 i'll count that right here go ahead keep going the declaration was in effect an admission of guilt

00:47:26.240 and so on the 13th of march 1931 capone was charged with income tax evasion for the year of 1924

00:47:33.520 and then on the 5th of june capone was indicted by a federal grand jury to stand trial hundred

00:47:39.200 thousand dollars back in 19 1931 is the equivalent to one million nine hundred ninety five thousand

00:47:43.760 dollars uh basically yeah almost two million almost two million keep going on 22 counts of income tax

00:47:52.160 evasion from 1925 to 1929 and he was at that point released on bail of fifty thousand dollars

00:47:59.280 a week after this elliot ness and his team were to become involved with the court process

00:48:05.760 and their evidence led to capone's indictment on 5 000 violations of the volstead act the act which

00:48:12.080 detailed the prohibition laws indeed elliot ness is one of the names inextricably linked to al capone

00:48:18.640 he was an american prohibition agent in chicago leader of his team of reliable whiter than white law

00:48:24.560 enforcement agents known as the untouchables and with a reputation as an incorruptible even zealous

00:48:30.960 upholder of the law he seemed to be untempted by the bribes and unaffected by the intimidation

00:48:36.960 that the chicago outfit attempted to buy him with and you could even say he was the exact opposite of

00:48:42.640 al capone ness was a member of the u.s treasury department which he joined in 1926 working within

00:48:50.320 the bureau of prohibition in chicago and so ness was part of the team whose job it was to take down

00:48:55.920 al capone by investigating his illegal bootlegging activities and gathering evidence of conspiracy

00:49:01.920 to violate the national prohibition or volstead act in addition ness instigated raids of capone's

00:49:09.200 illegal stills and breweries destroying his supply chain and leading to an estimated loss of nine

00:49:14.800 million dollars in income for capone by the end of their investigations getting much of their

00:49:19.600 information through wiretaps on phone lines the operation headed by ness caused major financial

00:49:25.440 damage and disruption to capone's operation and collected evidence for the 5 000 violations of the

00:49:31.280 volstead act that he would be tried on on the 16th of june 1931 capone stood before judge james

00:49:39.280 herbert wilkerson the same judge who had convicted capone's brother ralph for tax evasion in 1930

00:49:45.280 and imprisoned him for three years this time al capone pled guilty to income tax evasion and also

00:49:51.360 to the 5 000 violations of the volstead act as part of a plea bargain deal in which he agreed to plead

00:49:57.440 guilty in return for a sentence of two and a half years however when it came to sentencing judge wilkerson

00:50:05.040 refused to honor the plea bargain and on the 30th of july 1931 capone's counsel retracted the guilty

00:50:11.680 pleas and an argument was made that a lawyer could not confess for his client arguing that the lawyers

00:50:17.520 admitted the income and not capone but judge wilkerson overruled the objection on the grounds

00:50:22.640 that any statement made to a government that judge was mad as hell bro how you not how you gonna accept 0.68

00:50:28.400 like withdraw the guilty uh plea and be like no i'm not giving them two and a half years they really

00:50:33.440 want a capone in jail man wow yeah let's keep going official was done at the person's own risk and so

00:50:39.920 judge wilkerson ruled that the letter to federal authorities admitting income could be admitted

00:50:45.360 into evidence by capone's lawyer wilkerson subsequently tried capone on the income tax evasion charges

00:50:52.800 alone deeming them to take precedence over the volstead act prohibition based charges and the lawyers

00:50:58.400 acting for capone had only hours to prepare for the trial as they had been relying on the judge accepting

00:51:04.080 the plea bargain deal and came up with the defense that all his income had been lost because of his

00:51:09.280 gambling habit furthermore the defense was weak to say the least not only were gambling losses only

00:51:15.360 admissible as a deduction from gambling winnings but capone's expenses showed that money must have

00:51:20.560 been available to pay for them and to an extent that was far greater than that which they had claimed

00:51:27.360 the extent of capone's spending was outlined in court in great detail and the charge was that

00:51:32.800 the two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in taxes had been evaded on a gross income of one

00:51:37.920 million thirty eight thousand six hundred and fifty four dollars over a five-year period and so on the

00:51:43.680 31st of october 1931 al capone was convicted on three counts of income tax evasion and a week later

00:51:50.800 he received his sentence which was to be eleven years in federal prison and a fine of fifty thousand

00:51:56.880 dollars plus seven thousand six hundred and ninety two dollars in costs as well as this he would also

00:52:02.400 be liable for the two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars back taxes plus interest but the sentence

00:52:08.080 for contempt of court would be served concurrently

00:52:12.640 capone's response just to put things in perspective for you guys because he made way more money than that

00:52:17.120 but the government was able to kind of prove like oh you made this much money which is a little

00:52:20.960 like or you know uh one point something million but i'm just gonna say to put things in perspective

00:52:26.320 one million dollars back then was about twenty million dollars today guys so 20 million yep

00:52:31.920 yeah that's inflation for you so let's get back to it this was to hire a team of tax expert lawyers

00:52:39.600 from washington and they filed a writ of habeas corpus which meant that the detainee had to be brought to

00:52:45.440 court to investigate if the detention was lawful the grounds they used for their argument was a

00:52:50.480 supreme court ruling which had pronounced that tax evasion was not fraud which would mean that the

00:52:55.920 time limit for the prosecution of tax evasion might have expired on some of the tax years he was

00:53:00.640 convicted for but the judge decided that the time capone had spent in miami should be deducted from the

00:53:06.080 age of the offenses making the argument invalid and thus denying the appeal for both the conviction

00:53:12.080 and the sentence following the failed appeal capone was sent to atlanta u.s penitentiary on the

00:53:19.120 3rd of may 1932 at the age of 33. moreover elliot ness was among the federal agents who accompanied

00:53:26.080 capone from the cook county jail to the penitentiary and this was the only time that the two men were

00:53:31.360 known to have actually met in person and when capone arrived there he weighed 250 pounds and at the

00:53:37.680 medical he was diagnosed with both syphilis and gonorrhea as well as a perforated nasal septum

00:53:43.600 due to excessive cocaine use in addition he was also suffering from withdrawal symptoms from cocaine

00:53:49.120 to which he was addicted whilst in atlanta capone was competent in his job of stitching soles onto

00:53:56.240 shoes but he was not popular with fellow inmates who felt he was both a weak personality unable to

00:54:01.600 deal with the bullying the other inmates carried out and also was receiving special treatment this

00:54:06.560 idea arose from the protection he was offered by his cellmate red rudensky a seasoned criminal who was

00:54:12.480 associated with the south side gang and so with the hatred he was facing from other inmates the

00:54:17.600 incoherence of the letters he was writing home as well as red rudensky's concerns that he would have

00:54:22.400 a breakdown it was decided that capone would be moved to the newly opened alcatraz federal penitentiary

00:54:28.320 off the coast of san francisco in august 1934 his new address was to be cell 181

00:54:34.320 in alcatraz on the 23rd of june 1936 capone was attacked in the laundry area by fellow inmate

00:54:42.720 james critterton lucas who was serving a life sentence for bank robbery lucas stabbed capone

00:54:47.920 in the back with a pair of scissors stolen from the prison barber but capone was only superficially

00:54:53.040 wounded and so he was able to throw lucas against a wall in retaliation after the attack lucas was sent

00:54:58.960 into solitary confinement as a punishment during his time at alcatraz capone's syphilis worsened

00:55:06.320 affecting his mental faculties until in february 1938 he was diagnosed formally with syphilis of

00:55:12.560 the brain and so the final year of his alcatraz sentence was spent in the hospital ward of the

00:55:17.600 prison where he was both disorientated and confused and so when he was released from alcatraz on the 6th

00:55:23.600 of january 1939 he was immediately transferred to the federal correctional institution on terminal

00:55:29.440 island in california to fulfill his sentence for contempt of court and as well as this he was

00:55:34.640 given parole on the 16th of november 1939 when his wife may appealed to the court on the grounds of his

00:55:41.120 reduced mental capacity the effect of capone's imprisonment was portrayed by those involved in

00:55:48.000 it as reducing the operation of organized crime carried out by the south side mob but in reality

00:55:53.520 it only called for a temporary change of leader who was found in frank nitty at least when he was

00:55:58.880 released from prison in march 1932 having served a sentence for tax evasion himself

00:56:05.600 in reality the chicago outfit continued their crime business at a more discreet level than when capone

00:56:11.600 had been in charge they remained low profile producing the killings that had been a mark of

00:56:16.000 capone's time in charge and this low profile continued once prohibition was abolished as the gangsters who

00:56:22.080 replaced capone were wary of going the same way he had the low profile meant that it was unclear to

00:56:29.040 many who was actually in control of the organization which was a mere figurehead

00:56:34.160 no which is what you want they operated way more surreptitiously once capone uh you know left

00:56:41.200 leadership front man but organized crime continued with prostitution gambling loan sharking and labor

00:56:48.720 union racketeering without serious investigations and into the late 1950s fbi agents discovered an outfit

00:56:55.840 run by capone's former men operating in the chicago underworld on the 16th of november 1939 capone was

00:57:04.560 released from prison due to the state of his health and was referred to the johns hopkins hospital in

00:57:09.680 baltimore however they refused to take him thanks on his reputation and so he was instead admitted to

00:57:15.600 the union memorial hospital for treatment of paresis which was caused by that would never happen in today's

00:57:21.280 day and age no matter how evil you are or whatever it is they got to give you treatment so that's wild

00:57:26.560 that was a different time in the 1930s man different law and everything different everything yeah

00:57:31.760 late stage syphilis and as a mark of his thanks capone donated two japanese weeping cherry trees to the

00:57:37.600 hospital capone left the baltimore hospital on the 20th of march 1940 to return home to palm island

00:57:45.680 and was lucky enough to be one of the first patients treated in america with the recently

00:57:50.160 released drug penicillin but although it was too late to cure his condition and reverse the damage

00:57:54.960 to his brain it did help to slow down the progression of the disease during the final years

00:58:01.280 in 1946 capone was examined by a baltimore psychiatrist as well as his own physician who

00:58:07.280 concluded that he had a mental age of a 12 year old and on the 21st of january 1947 capone suffered a

00:58:14.160 stroke from which he initially started to recover before contracting bronchopneumonia he then suffered

00:58:19.600 a cardiac arrest on the 22nd of january and on the 25th of january 1947 al capone died of heart failure

00:58:26.880 as a result of apoplexy he was in his home surrounded by his loved ones after this a private funeral was

00:58:34.720 held in chicago a week later and he was buried at mount olivette cemetery in chicago but three years later

00:58:40.800 in 1950 his remains along with the remains of his father gabriel and his brother salvatore were exhumed

00:58:47.360 and reinterred at mount carmel cemetery in hillside illinois nevertheless the terror he had spread may

00:58:53.360 have stopped with his demise but the chicago outfit continued with wide-ranging criminal activities such

00:58:59.360 as loan sharking gambling prostitution political corruption extortion and murder whilst they didn't

00:59:05.200 have the monopoly on organized crime in chicago it was the most violent organized and powerful

00:59:10.640 criminal mob in the midwest and its reach was as far as florida and california even after his death

00:59:18.080 al capone's legend would live on his image and characterization used to exemplify the american

00:59:23.680 gangster to later generations he became an iconic figure and his image endures in films and publications

00:59:30.640 to this day what do you think of al capone was he a modern day robin hood giving the people a taste

00:59:37.600 of what they wanted or was he a tax dodger cold-blooded killer and gangster extraordinaire whose taste for the

00:59:44.080 high life eventually killed him please let us know bam there you go guys and there it is al capone and

00:59:50.480 the chicago outfit man uh you guys have been requesting that one for a while um but yeah we're gonna we're

00:59:56.400 gonna wrap up here because uh we got a debate coming very soon with uh destiny rollo and sneeko

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The Debrief With MyronGainesX - May 22, 2023

Fed Explains Al Capone & The Chicago Outfit

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