Презентация на тему "Al Capone"

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Alfonso Gabriel "Great Al" Capone - American Gangster, which operated in 1920-1930-ies in the Chicago area. Under cover of the furniture business engaged in bootlegging, gambling and pimping. Bright representative of organized crime United States, was born and existing there under the influence of the Italian Mafia.

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Early years Big Al was born on January 17, 1899 in Naples, the son of a barber Gabriel Capone and his wife Teresa. Al was the fourth child in the family. Naples father Capone did not like, and then he and his family went to conquer America, as did many people of those years. But American Dream Gabriel broke as soon as he realized what it takes to live in this country. They settled in the Brooklyn area of New York.

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« Carier » start In five years, Al Capone began to study in a public school. No talent, except the ability to fight, and in the sixth grade, he came into conflict with the teacher, he dropped out of school. Due to the simple observation of teacher Alfonso almost beat her. Which was the director of slap slapped the boy, and the young hooligan decided that mortally humiliated in school longer it appear impossible. Becoming such a way "free", the boy immediately got in Brooklyn street gang " Bim Bums", where he learned not only with a knife, but not bad to shoot a gun.

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Pimping Al Capone's criminal career began in role as would now say "manager" of one of the brothels in the empire Johnny Torrio . And although even among criminals in those years it was considered shameful occupation, Capone succeeded in this field. Very quickly, Al Capone became head of affairs in the famous bar The Four Deuces, where the ground floor is a bar on the second - tote, the third - the gambling hall, while the fourth - a brothel. In 1925, when 26-year-old Capone becomes the owner of the entire criminal empire that includes a lot of brothels, brothels, dance halls, gambling houses, namely "The Four Deuces" become his headquarters. Pimping brought about 35 million dollars a year.

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Bootlegging Al Capone built his business not only because of him talent, but because of him ability to benefit from the evils of society. When the January 17, 1920 in the United States entered the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which declared a "dry law," Alfonso Capone has worked as an assistant leader of a large criminal clan Giacomo "Big Jim" Kolosimo . Kolosimo not see perspectives and not engage in clandestine trade in alcohol . Free niche immediately took the ambitious nephew Kolosimo - Johnny Torrio . Very quickly, he got rid of Uncle and began Al Capone did his closest associate. Together they launched a storm of activity on sale of "firewater", controlling the supply of alcohol from abroad and underground production in Chicago. Torrio and Capone became rich with each passing day. Weekly Only Al Capone received up to 25 thousand dollars, and soon annual revenues Empire Capone- Torrio was 60 million dollars.

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Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the biggest events associated with the name of Al Capone. The main purpose of it was the assassination of Bugs Moran, a leader was operating in the north of the Chicago Irish factions and rival of Capone bootlegging. A well-planned - as in the classic crime films about gangsters - massacre took place in 1929. One subordinate Capone made the appointment on the pretext Moran transmission batch whiskey. When the Irish went to the warehouse, where she was allegedly held on the transfer of goods, it broke people, two of whom were wearing police uniforms. Wards Moran to believe that they are representatives of the law. Disarming, they agreed with the requirement to stand up against the wall - and then opened fire on them with machine guns . After the shooting of two police clowns brought other members of the massacre with their hands up - to potential witnesses not suspicious. The plan worked: how then said one of the witnesses, she thought it was an ordinary police raid. During the massacre was released about a thousand bullets. One of the Irish, get twenty bullet wounds, remained alive for a few more hours. However, the questions arrived after the shooting of police officers as to who committed the crime, he did not answer.

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Laundering of money It is believed that Al Capone first invented and implemented fraudulent scheme, which later became known as "money laundering". Huge income derived from the smuggling of alcohol, it was necessary to legislate. To do this, Capone built a network of laundries in which customers are served at very low prices. And as in the major US cities is still pending washed houses, the number of customers in laundries Al Capone was impossible to calculate, and accordingly, the proceeds of a new kind of business you can record any. The phrase "money laundering" was first used by the newspapers in 1973 during the Watergate scandal, and nine years later officially became a legal term.

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Non-payment of taxes The case of tax evasion has become a sunset activities of Al Capone. Since the other crimes gangster was difficult to prove, the authorities decided to go a roundabout way - punishing for financial infractions. Capone never paid income tax, and he was charged, when this fact is revealed by one of his own people, the United States implemented the tax police in the underworld of Chicago. In November 1931 he was sentenced to 11-year term and a heavy fine and payment of court costs. At first, he served time in Atlanta, where he could not control his subordinates, then it altogether isolated, imprisoned for the island of Alcatraz. By the time he was released from prison, his health was irreversibly undermined syphilis.

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Death January 25th, 1947 Al Capone died in his Florida home. Because his body was taken to Florida to Chicago, where the coffin with the deceased surrounded by dozens of armed gangsters were transported to the cemetery and buried under a headstone bearing the name of someone else - such was the desire of the family of the deceased.