Al Capone: One Of The Modern-Day Robin Hood

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Al Capone graced the cover of Time Magazine, known for his stylish, colorful, fancy double-breasted suits; Capone wanted to be perceived as a legitimate businessman. His signature white Fedora, seemed to signify that he was one of the “Good Guys”. Al Capone was not a modern-day Robin Hood, he was a gangster and a thug who made his money by poking fun at the law as it related to prohibition and other criminal activities. Capone and his henchmen made a fortune, by today’s standards; earning nearly an estimated one hundred million dollars running a criminal empire (“Documentary: Al Capone icon, 2014”), bootlegging, speakeasy’s, gambling, racketeering, prostitution and by boldly challenging law enforcement whenever they could “His operation was earning him more than $100 million annually, and many local police were on his payroll”, (Corbett, 2014 p. 712). Al Capone’s was a …show more content…

Later, Capone began working as a dishwasher on Coney Island for Frankie Yale, owner of the Harbor Inn where Capone was eventually promoted to a Bartender; Yale worked as an ICE racketeer. The Harbor Inn would be where Capone was exposed to some of the worst criminal element in society. It was at the Harbor Inn where Capone at the age of 22, would suffer a vicious attack that would earn him the name, Scarface Capone. Apparently, one night while working Capone is alleged to have said whispered something obnoxious in the ear of a woman he liked and her brother Frank Galluccio tried slashing Capone’s throat, instead slashing Capone across his cheek. Capone later would lie about the scar stating he received it fighting in WWI; he was never in the war. The Harbor Inn would play a pivotal role in Capone’s rise to a Chicago mob boss and the undisputed crime boss in the whole of the United States (Capone,

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