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Alphonse “Scarface” Capone Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899. He grew up in rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY where he would attend school only up to the sixth grade, when dropped out. Capone got his nickname “Scarface” from a ....

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.... occurred and was to become known as the St. Valentines Day massacre. The event took place at the bootlegging headquarters of George “Bugs” Moran, Capone’s latest rival. Five police officers walked into the garage, lined up Moran’s men, and shot them down. While these men appeared to be police officers, all five were really some of Capone’s hitmen. Capone was able time and time again to avoid criminal charges, and became a true racketeer, an art of its own. Ironically, the government finally was able to put Scarface behind bars on charges of federal income tax evasion. He was sentenced to eleven years in prison. ....