Capone On Tax Evasion example essay topic

At January 25 1919, the League of Nation was founded. It was an international organization founded after WWI with its constitution being approved by the Paris Peace Conference. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation and diplomacy blah blah blah and so on. This topic will fit perfectly in what we are studying right now, I am not going to talk about it because it is really very boring. (trust me, I read though it) Besides, I found something else far more interesting then this. At the same day (January 25th) 28 years after the League of Nation was founded, a famous gangster died. Alphonse Capone, a famous American gangster during the 1920's and 1930's, had a very special life.

When he was thirteen, he joined two gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors and engaged in crimes. Capone quit high school at the age of fourteen when he fought with a teacher who as beaten up very badly. After staying with small-time gangs for sometime, Capone joined the big gang, the Five Points gang. It was at this time he began working as a bartender at the Harvard Inn.

It was at the Harvard Inn, it was there where Capone would engage in a knife fight and was slashed on his face, giving him the nickname that he would bear for the rest of his life: Scarface. Capone later worked for one of the most powerful bosses in the gang called Johnny Torrio. Torrio immediately recognized Capone's talents and by 1922 Capone was Torrio's second in charge, responsible for much of the gambling, alcohol, and prostitution in the city of Chicago. Only a few years later after Torrio's death, Capone took over his place and all his jobs. He then became the boss of the gang. He made a whole lot of money though his illegal activities, some estimates that he was making more than 100 million US dollars a year at that time.

Capone was a very smart person, he always did his business through front men and had no accounting records linking him. Although the government knew that he was the one at the back controlling, they did not have anything to prove any of his illegal activities including seventy-one gangland killings or even at least 2 murders he had committed. Till 1927, new laws were passed in 1927, it allowed the federal government to pursue Capone on tax evasion. Capone was found guilty on five of twenty three counts and sentenced to only ten years in a federal prison.

The most famous gangster was sent to prison because of tax evasion. (That was actually the best that the government could do to the most notorious gangster at that time, it is so pathetic.) However, Capone was still able to control most of his interests from this facility in jail until he was transferred and guarded and prohibited from any contact with the outside world. He was finally released on November 16, 1939 because of his health problems. He retired to Florida where he largely withdrew from the outside world and from the events in Chicago. On January 21, 1947, Capone suffered a stroke and eventually died in January 25. Capone was a really really bad guy, but there is no doubt that he was probably the richest, most successful, most popular gangster in America of the twentieth century.

Do not misunderstand me, I am not trying to encourage people to be gangsters here. I believe that with great faith, you can accomplish anything. You can be the best of all like Capone.