When it comes to historical American gangsters, there are few names with the level of notoriety attained by Al Capone. Rising to both fame and infamy – depending on one’s opinion of the man at the time – as a Chicago crime boss during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and early 1930s, Capone was seen by some as a modern-day Robin Hood, openly defying the government’s catastrophically ineffective anti-alcohol policy. That was until the infamous 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, in which Capone’s forces brutally murdered a number of rival gang members.
As has become well-known to even those with only a passing knowledge of Capone, the feds eventually pursued the novel strategy of prosecuting the vicious gangster for tax evasion. ...
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