Al Capone

             "Anyone who ever went to him for help got it"
             Al Capone was one of the if not the most powerful gangsters to ever live in America. It was once said by the head of CCC that: "Al Capone ran the city. His hand reached into every department of the city and county government ".
             Al was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn N.Y. he was the fourth of 9 kids (7 boys and 2 girls) but the first the be conceived and born in the United States which he would brag about later in life. In the 6th grade Al was still maintaining a B average, and was also working as a shoe shine boy in the wall street lobby. When a kids gang ruined his chair and the cops wouldn't do anything about it Al realized that the police were not on his side. Soon after that while Al was in school one of his teachers hit him for disciplinary reason, Al being the tough kid that he was punched her back, getting himself expelled from school and sending him into a life of crime.
             Soon after he was kicked out of school Capone found a job working for a Johnny Torrie, Torrie gave Capone a cover job and paid him 3 dollars a week. Torrie really got Al involved in the numbers racked and soon promoted him to collecting money for debts to Johnny, Capone brought back the most money of any of the teen money collectors proving his skills with his fists bats and chains. Soon Torrie would move out of New York, but not to leave his best money collector out of a job he hooked him up with Frankie Yale. While working for Yale as a bartender and bouncer at the Harvard Inn, Al would earn his life long Nickname. When he told one of the female customers: "Honey you have a nice ass, and I mean that as a compliment" Frank Gallucio didn't take to kindly to it seeing how it was his sister. So Gallucio Slashed Capone's face 3 times with a knife, leaving 3 long and lasting scars on the left side of Capone's face. Giving Capone the nickname "Scareface&...

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