Al Capone & Prohibition. What was Prohibition? A nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

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Al Capone & Prohibition

What was Prohibition? A nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

Pros decreased alcohol consumption third of its prewar level decrease in alcoholism and alcohol-related diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver family savings increased Cons ● federal allocation of funds to enforce prohibition were woefully inadequate ● Gaping loopholes in the Volstead Act, the law implemented to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, encouraged abuse. ● The manufacturing of near beer — regular beer without the alcohol — was also permitted. ● Illegal drinking and bootlegging ● Every city had countless Speakeasies, which were not-so- secret bars hidden from public view.

Al Capone aka “Scarface” ruled an empire of crime in the Chicago gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, robbery, “protection” rackets, and murder. quit school in Brooklyn after the sixth grade and joined Johnny Torrio’s James Street Boys gang, rising eventually to the Five Points Gang.

How was Capone Involved in Prohibition?

How Capone got Arrested On June 16, 1931, Capone was arrested for tax evasion and pleaded guilty to this and prohibition charges. Less than two months later, Capone was arrested in Philadelphia by local police for carrying concealed weapons and was sent to jail for a year. When he was released in 1931, Capone was tried and convicted for the original contempt of court charge. A federal judge sentenced him to six months in prison. In the meantime, federal Treasury agents had been gathering evidence that Capone had failed to pay his income taxes. Capone was convicted, and on October 24, 1931, was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Death When he finally got out of Alcatraz, Capone was too sick to carry on his life of crime. He retired in his Florida, where he died in 1947 of Bronchopneumonia, which is the acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles.

The End of Prohibition!

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