Al Capone the Infamous Crime Lord
In the days of the early nineteen hundreds in the slums of New York, wealth was worshipped as if it was a religion. People in the slums who participated in immoral or illegal activities often gained this wealth. Young impressionable boys such as Capone often started out running legal errands for some extra cash. Many of these boys eventually became sucked in by the glamorous yet dangerous lifestyle of an organized crime. Al Capone fitting this stereotype thought that this would be his only way to survive and all he learned after he was kicked out of school in the sixth grade(Kolber 19) . He learned the way gangs were run by watching; when especially from Johnny Torrio an entrepreneurial gangster did not take part in a lot of the drinking and womanizing. He would end up teaching Capone everything he knew. Al Capone an Italian Immigrant from Brooklyn would start a huge gang empire starting at the young age of eighteen that would influence gangs all......
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