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184-624: A U.S. Supreme Court ruling, although his appeal ultimately failed. Capone showed signs of neurosyphilis early in his sentence and became increasingly debilitated before being released after almost eight years of incarceration. In 1947, he died of cardiac arrest after a stroke. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn , a borough of New York City , on January 17, 1899. His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa ( née  Raiola ; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), both born in Angri ,

276-573: A cardiac arrest on January 22, and on January 25, surrounded by his family in his home, died after his heart failed as a result of apoplexy . His body was transported back to Chicago a week later and a private funeral was held. He was originally buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago. In 1950, Capone's remains, along with those of his father, Gabriele, and brother, Frank, were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois . Capone

368-631: A soup kitchen in Chicago during the Depression. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre led to public outcry about Thompson's alliance with Capone, and this was a factor in Anton J. Cermak winning the mayoral election on April 6, 1931. Capone was known for ordering other men to do his dirty work for him. In May 1929, one of Capone's bodyguards , Frank Rio , uncovered a plot by three of his men; Albert Anselmi, John Scalise and Joseph Giunta . They had been persuaded by Aiello to depose Capone and take over

460-492: A "police raid". The faux police lined the seven victims along a wall and signaled for accomplices armed with machine guns and shotguns. Moran was not among the victims. Photos of the slain victims shocked the public and damaged Capone's image. Within days, Capone received a summons to testify before a Chicago grand jury on charges of federal Prohibition violations, but he claimed to be too unwell to attend. In an effort to clean up his image, Capone donated to charities and sponsored

552-406: A $ 100 bill in half and told Dodds that he would get the other half when he learned it. Capone also sent two bodyguards to accompany jazz pianist Earl Hines on a road trip. Capone indulged in custom suits, cigars, gourmet food and drink, and female companionship. He was particularly known for his flamboyant and costly jewelry. His favorite responses to questions about his activities were "I am just

644-493: A $ 50,000 bounty to anyone who eliminated Capone. At least ten gunmen tried to collect on the bounty, but ended up dead. Capone's ally Ralph Sheldon attempted to kill both Capone and Lombardo for Aiello's reward, but Capone henchman, Frank Nitti , had an intelligence network that learned of the transaction and had Sheldon shot in front of a West Side hotel, although he survived the incident. In November 1927, Aiello organized machine-gun ambushes across from Lombardo's home and

736-530: A Prohibition agent in Homer , Nebraska ; Raffaele James Capone , also known as Ralph Capone or "Bottles", who took charge of his brother's beverage industry; Salvatore "Frank" Capone ; Ermina Capone, who died at the age of one; Ermino "John" Capone; Albert Capone; Matthew Capone and Mafalda Capone. Ralph and Frank worked with Al in his criminal empire. Frank did so until his death on April 1, 1924. Ralph ran Al's bottling companies (both legal and illegal) early on and

828-404: A baseball bat" and that he would have instead let an enforcer perform the murders; however, despite claims that the story was first reported by author Walter Noble Burns in his 1931 book The One-Way Ride: The Red Trail of Chicago Gangland from Prohibition to Jake Lingle , Capone biographers Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz have found versions of the story in press coverage shortly after

920-766: A bodyguard of Johnny Torrio , head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol —the forerunner of the Outfit—and was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana . A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Although Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, his mutually profitable relationships with Mayor William Hale Thompson and

1012-512: A businessman, giving the people what they want" and "All I do is satisfy a public demand". Capone had become a national celebrity and talking point. Capone based himself in Cicero , Illinois , after using bribery and widespread intimidation to take over town council elections, making it difficult for the North Siders to target him. Capone's driver was found tortured and murdered, and there

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1104-466: A cigar store frequented by Capone, but those plans were foiled after an anonymous tip led police to raid several addresses and arrest Milwaukee gunman Angelo La Mantio and four other Aiello gunmen. After the police discovered receipts for the apartments in La Mantio's pockets, he confessed that Aiello had hired him to kill Capone and Lombardo, leading the police to arrest Aiello himself and bring him to

1196-451: A court appearance after his attorney claimed he suffered a nervous breakdown. Aiello disappeared with some family members to Trenton, New Jersey , where he continued his campaign against Capone and Lombardo. Chicago politicians had long been associated with questionable methods, and even newspaper circulation "wars", but the need for bootleggers to have protection in city hall introduced a far more serious level of violence and graft. Capone

1288-541: A feud with Capone. Aiello allied himself with several of Capone enemies, including Jack Zuta , who ran vice and gambling houses together. Aiello plotted to eliminate both Lombardo and Capone, and starting in the spring of 1927, made several attempts to assassinate Capone. On one occasion, Aiello offered money to the chef of Joseph "Diamond Joe" Esposito 's Bella Napoli Café, Capone's favorite restaurant, to put prussic acid in Capone's and Lombardo's soup; reports indicated he offered between $ 10,000 and $ 35,000. Instead,

1380-537: A few weeks of inpatient and outpatient care, on March 20, 1940, a very sickly Capone left Baltimore and travelled to his mansion in Palm Island, Florida . In 1942, after mass production of penicillin was started in the United States, Capone was one of the first American patients treated by the new drug. Though it was too late for him to reverse the damage to his brain, it did slow down the progression of

1472-416: A letter from a lawyer acting for Capone conceding his large taxable income for certain years he had paid no tax on. On March 13, 1931, Capone was charged with income tax evasion for 1924, in a secret grand jury. On June 5, 1931, Capone was indicted by a federal grand jury on 22 counts of income tax evasion from 1925 through 1929; he was released on $ 50,000 bail. Capone was then indicted on 5,000 violations of

1564-589: A multi-agency attack on Capone. Treasury and Justice Departments developed plans for income tax prosecutions against Chicago gangsters, and a small, elite squad of Prohibition Bureau agents (whose members included Eliot Ness ) were deployed against bootleggers. In a city used to corruption, these lawmen were incorruptible. Charles Schwarz, a writer for the Chicago Daily News , dubbed them Untouchables . To support Federal efforts, Strong secretly used his newspaper's resources to gather and share intelligence on

1656-492: A night train to Cleveland , Omaha , Kansas City , Little Rock , or Hot Springs , Arkansas , where they would spend a week in luxury hotel suites under assumed names. In 1928, Capone paid $ 40,000 to Clarence Busch of the Anheuser-Busch brewing family for a 10,000 square foot (930 m ) home at 93 Palm Avenue on Palm Island , Florida , between Miami and Miami Beach . In November 1925, Antonio Lombardo , who

1748-526: A relatively slim margin. On the day of the Pineapple Primary on April 10, 1928, voting booths were targeted by Capone's bomber, James Belcastro , in wards where Thompson's opponents were thought to have support, causing the deaths of at least fifteen people. Belcastro was accused of murdering lawyer Octavius Granady, an African-American, who challenged Thompson's candidate for the Black vote, and

1840-441: A settler of disputes. In a fateful step, Torrio arranged the murder of O'Banion at his flower shop on November 10, 1924. This placed Hymie Weiss at the head of the gang, backed by Vincent Drucci and Bugs Moran . Weiss had been a close friend of O'Banion, and the North Siders made it a priority to get revenge on his killers. During Prohibition , Capone was involved with Canadian bootleggers who helped him smuggle liquor into

1932-715: A small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno . His father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress . Capone's family had immigrated to the United States in 1893 by ship, first going through the port city of Fiume , Austria-Hungary (modern-day Rijeka , Croatia). The family settled at 95 Navy Street, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard . When Capone was aged 11, he and his family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope , Brooklyn. Capone's parents had eight other children: James Vincenzo Capone , who later changed his name to Richard Hart and became

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2024-410: A taxicab, a gunman in a second-floor window across the street started firing at Aiello with a submachine gun. Aiello was said to have been shot at least 13 times before he toppled off the building steps and moved around the corner, attempting to move out of the line of fire. Instead, he moved directly into the range of a second submachine gun positioned on the third floor of another apartment block, and

2116-463: A total income of $ 1,038,654, during the five-year period. Capone was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion on October 17, 1931, and was sentenced a week later to 11 years in federal prison, fined $ 50,000 plus $ 7,692 for court costs, and was held liable for $ 215,000 plus interest due on his back taxes. The contempt of court sentence was served concurrently. New lawyers hired to represent Capone were Washington-based tax experts. They filed

2208-412: A two-week trial over which Wilkerson presided. Seeking to avoid the same fate, Capone ordered his lawyer to regularize his tax position, and although it was not done, his lawyer made crucial admissions when stating the income that Capone was willing to pay tax on for various years, admitting income of $ 100,000 for 1928 and 1929, for instance; hence, without any investigation, the government had been given

2300-494: A writ of habeas corpus based on a Supreme Court ruling that tax evasion was not fraud, which apparently meant that Capone had been convicted on charges relating to years that were actually outside the time limit for prosecution; however, a judge interpreted the law so that the time that Capone had spent in Miami was subtracted from the age of the offences, thereby denying the appeal of both Capone's conviction and sentence. Capone

2392-488: Is coming to an end, but a quickening momentum is just not something the show has on its mind currently. That said, an incredible slow tension throbs throughout the entire episode, but it's an unfortunately uneven one nonetheless." Chris O'Hara of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "With just two episodes left, it won't be long before we see the moment Nucky offered up young Gillian to secure his place in life. A move he seems destined to answer for by

2484-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Devil You Know (Boardwalk Empire) The series is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey , during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. The series follows Enoch "Nucky" Thompson , a political figure who rises to prominence and interacts with mobsters, politicians, government agents, and the common folk who look up to him. In

2576-414: Is generally seen as having an appreciable effect in bringing about the victory of Republican mayoral candidate William Hale Thompson , who had campaigned on a platform of not enforcing Prohibition and at one time hinted that he'd reopen illegal saloons. Thompson allegedly accepted a contribution of $ 250,000 from Capone. Thompson beat Democratic candidate William Emmett Dever in the 1927 mayoral race by

2668-522: Is taken by Joe to the Old Rumpus, discovering that Mickey has assembled an army in their fight against Luciano. Back in New York, Daughter warns Chalky that Narcisse will betray him. Chalky states that he is aware and is willing to take the deal, knowing Daughter and Althea will live and enjoy a successful career, explaining that he knows Althea is his daughter. He says goodbye and then leaves through

2760-425: Is told to leave, with Daughter refusing to name the father of her daughter Althea. He refuses to leave her and awaits for Narcisse, who willingly meets with him. Narcisse explains that he has prevented Daughter from resuming her music career, but Luciano 's threat makes him reconsider things. He offers Chalky to work for him in the war against Luciano. Chalky accepts as long as Narcisse releases Daughter and Althea from

2852-781: The Chicago Police Department meant he seemed safe from law enforcement. Capone apparently reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at baseball games. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many as a "modern-day Robin Hood ". The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre , in which seven gang rivals were murdered in broad daylight, damaged the public image of Chicago and Capone, leading influential citizens to demand government action and newspapers to dub Capone " Public Enemy No. 1". Federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and charged him with twenty-two counts of tax evasion . He

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2944-611: The Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33. Capone was born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants . He joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager and became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, Capone moved to Chicago and became

3036-459: The Tribune erroneously reported the date as May 7, 1923. In the early years of the decade, Capone's name began appearing in newspaper sports pages where he was described as a boxing promoter. Torrio took over Colosimo's criminal empire after the latter's murder on May 11, 1920, in which Capone was suspected of being involved. Torrio headed an essentially Italian organized crime group that

3128-550: The Volstead Act (Prohibition laws). On June 16, 1931, at the Chicago Federal Building in the courtroom of Wilkerson, Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and the 5,000 Volstead Act violations as part of a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -year prison sentence plea bargain . On July 30, 1931, Wilkerson refused to honor the plea bargain, and Capone's counsel rescinded the guilty pleas. On the second day of

3220-421: The 1920s. Rivals saw Capone as responsible for the proliferation of brothels in the city. Capone often enlisted the help of local members of the black community into his operations; jazz musicians Milt Hinton and Lionel Hampton had uncles who worked for Capone on Chicago's South Side. A fan of jazz as well, Capone once asked clarinetist Johnny Dodds to play a number that Dodds did not know; Capone split

3312-480: The Capone outfit. On March 27, 1929, Capone was arrested by FBI agents as he left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury that was investigating violations of federal prohibition laws. He was charged with contempt of court for feigning illness to avoid an earlier appearance. On May 16, 1929, Capone was arrested in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, for carrying a concealed weapon. On May 17, 1929, Capone

3404-562: The Chicago Outfit. Later on, Capone beat the men with a baseball bat and then ordered his bodyguards to shoot them, a scene that was included in the 1987 film The Untouchables . Deirdre Bair, along with writers and historians such as William Elliot Hazelgrove, have questioned the veracity of the claim. Bair questioned why "three trained killers could sit quietly and let this happen", while Hazelgrove stated that Capone would have been "hard pressed to beat three men to death with

3496-490: The Chicago police, but at a lower level and without the open violence that had marked Capone's rule. Organized crime in the city had a lower profile once Prohibition was repealed, already wary of attention after seeing Capone's notoriety bring him down, to the extent that there is a lack of consensus among writers about who was actually in control and who was a figurehead "front boss". Prostitution, labor union racketeering, and gambling became moneymakers for organized crime in

3588-469: The Harvard Inn. Capone inadvertently insulted a woman while working the door , and he was slashed with a knife three times on the left side of his face by her brother, Frank Galluccio; the wounds led to the nickname "Scarface", which Capone loathed. The date when this occurred has been reported with inconsistencies. When Capone was photographed, he hid the scarred left side of his face, saying that

3680-545: The President. In Hoover's 1952 Memoir, the former President reported that Strong argued "Chicago was in the hands of the gangsters, that the police and magistrates were completely under their control, …that the Federal government was the only force by which the city's ability to govern itself could be restored. At once I directed that all the Federal agencies concentrate upon Mr. Capone and his allies." That meeting launched

3772-549: The Rock Islanders, which gave regular Sunday concerts for other inmates. Capone also transcribed the song " Madonna Mia " creating his own arrangement as a tribute to his wife Mae. At Alcatraz, Capone's decline became increasingly evident, as neurosyphilis progressively eroded his mental faculties; his formal diagnosis of syphilis of the brain was made in February 1938. He spent the last year of his Alcatraz sentence in

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3864-493: The South Clark Street police station. Upon learning of the arrest, Capone dispatched nearly two dozen gunmen to stand guard outside the station and await Aiello's release. The men made no attempt to conceal their purpose there, and reporters and photographers rushed to the scene to observe Aiello's expected murder. When released, Aiello was given a police escort out of the station to safety. He later failed to make

3956-672: The U.S. When Capone was asked if he knew Rocco Perri , billed as Canada's "King of the Bootleggers", he replied: "Why, I don't even know which street Canada is on." Other sources claim that Capone had certainly visited Canada, where he maintained some hideaways, although the Royal Canadian Mounted Police states that there is no "evidence that he ever set foot on Canadian soil". An ambush in January 1925 left Capone shaken, but unhurt. Twelve days later, Torrio

4048-419: The answers aren't really as positive as they should be, particularly in the case of Michael Shannon's Nelson Van Alden." Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ n / kə- POHN , Italian: [kaˈpoːne] ; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname " Scarface ", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during

4140-410: The approach was legally sound: illegally earned income was subject to income tax. The key to Capone's conviction on tax charges was not his spending, but proving his income, and the most valuable evidence in that regard originated in his offer to pay tax. Ralph, his brother and a gangster in his own right, was tried for tax evasion in 1930. Ralph spent the next 18 months in prison after being convicted in

4232-483: The back door, encountering Narcisse's men. Accepting his fate, he closes his eyes and remembers Daughter singing just as he is gunned down. In September 2014, HBO confirmed that the sixth episode of the season would be titled "Devil You Know", and that it would be written by executive producer Howard Korder , and directed by Jeremy Podeswa . This was Korder's 22nd writing credit, and Podeswa's seventh directing credit. In its original American broadcast, "Devil You Know"

4324-576: The best of the season, but tonight's 'Devil You Know' was the most pivotal. At the expense of two of Boardwalk Empire ' s most complex characters (and talented actors), the show now heads into its final two episodes with Nucky Thompson front and center." Craig D. Lindsey of Vulture gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Thanks to writer Howard Korder and director Jeremy Podeswa, both story lines were laid out as tightly coiled sequences of hermetically sealed, claustrophobic tension." Rodrigo Perez of IndieWire wrote, " Boardwalk Empire

4416-520: The brothel, which he accepts. In Atlantic City, a grieving Nucky has resorted to alcoholism after learning of Sally's death. He starts talking with two girls, Dinah and Irene, although their conversation annoys a regular patron in the bar. Nucky fights with the man, eventually knocking him unconscious. Later, in an alley, Nucky meets with the girls, who knock him unconscious and rob him. He is found by his henchman, Joe Harper, who helps him. In Chicago, Van Alden and Eli sneak into Capone 's office to find

4508-514: The chef exposed the plot to Capone, who responded by dispatching men to destroy Aiello's bakery on West Division Street with machine-gun fire. More than 200 bullets were fired into the bakery on May 28, 1927, wounding Aiello's brother Antonio. During the summer and autumn of 1927, a number of hitmen Aiello hired to kill Capone were themselves slain. Among them were Anthony Russo and Vincent Spicuzza, each of whom had been offered $ 25,000 by Aiello to kill Capone and Lombardo. Aiello eventually offered

4600-457: The city without incurring serious investigation. In the late 1950s, FBI agents discovered an organization led by Capone's former lieutenants reigning supreme over the Chicago underworld. Some historians have speculated that Capone ordered the 1939 murder of Edward J. O'Hare a week before his release, for helping federal prosecutors convict Capone of tax evasion, though there are other theories for O'Hare's death. Due to his failing health, Capone

4692-507: The crime. Collins and Schwartz suggest that similarities among reported versions of the story indicate a basis in truth and that the Outfit deliberately spread the tale to enhance Capone's fearsome reputation. George Meyer, an associate of Capone's, also claimed to have witnessed both the planning of the murders and the event itself. In 1930, upon learning of Aiello's continued plotting against him, Capone resolved to finally eliminate him. In

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4784-402: The disease. In 1946, his physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist examined him and concluded that Capone had the mentality of a 12-year-old child. He spent the last years of his life at his Palm Island mansion, spending time with his wife and grandchildren. On January 21, 1947, Capone had a stroke . He regained consciousness and started to improve, but contracted bronchopneumonia . He suffered

4876-448: The end of the season." Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "For instance, we will never see Daughter Maitland through Chalky's eyes anymore. Was she really that attractive? Was her voice as good as it sounded to my ears? Or was it just that Chalky emanated that? I mean, it doesn't really matter. I'd buy a Sister Maitland album. Singing the songs she made famous on Boardwalk Empire . It

4968-404: The episode, Chalky takes an important decision to save Daughter, while Van Alden and Eli are confronted over a failed robbery. According to Nielsen Media Research , the episode was seen by an estimated 1.55 million household viewers and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, making it the least watched episode of the series. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising

5060-474: The episode, based on 10 reviews. The site's consensus states: "Despite a shortened season, Boardwalk Empire successfully builds enough back-story and tension to gut the audience with a surprising turn of events." Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode an "amazing" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, "A few episodes away from the end, Boardwalk thinned the herd this week, leaving Van Alden and Chalky behind. Resembling Harrow's final sputter out, Chalky's exit

5152-621: The hospital section, confused and disoriented. Capone completed his term in Alcatraz on January 6, 1939, and was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in California to serve out his sentence for contempt of court . He was paroled on November 16, 1939, after his wife Mae appealed to the court, based on his reduced mental capabilities. The main effect of Capone's conviction

5244-618: The infection, but he apparently never sought treatment. In 1923, Capone purchased a small house at 7244 South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood in Chicago's South Side for $ 5,500 . As originally reported in the Chicago Tribune , hijacker Joe Howard was killed on May 8, 1924, after he tried to interfere with the Capone-Torrio bootlegging business. In a 1936 article highlighting Capone's criminal career,

5336-490: The injuries were war wounds. He was called "Snorky" by his closest friends, a term for a sharp dresser. In 1919, Capone left New York City for Chicago at the invitation of Torrio, who was imported by crime boss James "Big Jim" Colosimo as an enforcer. Capone began in Chicago as a bouncer in a brothel , which is thought to be most likely where he contracted syphilis . Capone was aware of being infected at an early stage and timely use of Salvarsan probably could have cured

5428-399: The ledgers. However, they are caught by Ralph ; convinced they were trying to rob the office, he orders D'Angelo to deal with them. However, Capone shows up after partying with George Raft and Paul Muni - actors who are in the upcoming Scarface movie, based on Capone’s life - and believes that Van Alden and Eli were plotting something more sinister than robbery. Now believing that Luciano

5520-691: The marriage. By all accounts, the two had a happy marriage. Capone initially became involved with small-time gangs that included the Junior Forty Thieves and the Bowery Boys. He then joined the Brooklyn Rippers, and then the powerful Five Points Gang based in Lower Manhattan . During this time he was employed and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale , a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called

5612-621: The massacre. The massacre was an attempt to eliminate Bugs Moran , head of the North Side Gang , and the motivation for the plan may have been the fact that some expensive whisky that was illegally imported from Canada via the Detroit River had been hijacked while it was being transported to Cook County, Illinois. Moran was the last survivor of the North Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors, Weiss and Vincent Drucci , had been killed in

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5704-502: The performances, writing, emotional tone and closure to Van Alden and Chalky. Nucky is now married to Mabel and they are expecting their first child. During his shift as Deputy, Nucky is asked by a shopkeeper to catch a boy who has been stealing from him on the boardwalk. Nucky and a young Eli eventually catch the boy under the pier, revealed to actually be a girl named Gillian. Having discovered Daughter in Narcisse 's brothel, Chalky

5796-615: The plea bargain Wilkerson refused to honor, therefore had mere hours to prepare for the trial, ran a weak defense focused on claiming that essentially all his income was lost to gambling. This would have been irrelevant regardless, since gambling losses can only be subtracted from gambling winnings, but it was further undercut by Capone's expenses, which were well beyond what his claimed income could support; Wilkerson allowed Capone's spending to be presented at very great length. The government charged Capone with evasion of $ 215,000 in taxes on

5888-461: The publicity to run against Thompson in the Republican primary. In February 1931, Capone was tried on the contempt of court charge. In court, Judge James Herbert Wilkerson , intervened to reinforce questioning of Capone's doctor by the prosecutor. Wilkerson sentenced Capone to six months, but he remained free while on appeal of the contempt conviction. In February 1930, Capone's organization

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6072-552: The trial, Wilkerson deemed that the 1930 letter to federal authorities could be admitted into evidence, overruling objections that a lawyer could not confess for his client. Wilkerson later tried Capone only on the income tax evasion charges as he determined they took precedence over the Volstead Act charges. Much was later made of other evidence, such as witnesses and ledgers, but these strongly implied Capone's control rather than stating it. Capone's lawyers, who had relied on

6164-551: The very best episodes this show has ever made – is any indication, the conclusion to this season, and series, will be even more powerful than what's come before." Genevieve Valentine of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A" grade and wrote, "we’re only now beginning to see Boardwalk Empire ' s willingness to burn itself to the ground. 'Devil You Know' was an episode all about being thwarted, with varying degrees of gallows humor." Sarene Leeds of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Last week's episode, 'King of Norway,' may have been

6256-401: The violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean O'Banion . To monitor their targets' habits and movements, Capone's men rented an apartment across from the trucking warehouse and garage at 2122 North Clark Street, which served as Moran's headquarters. On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929, Capone's lookouts signaled four gunmen, disguised as police officers, to initiate

6348-556: The weeks before Aiello's death, Capone's men tracked him to Rochester, New York , where he had connections through Buffalo crime family boss Stefano Magaddino , and plotted to kill him there, but Aiello returned to Chicago before the plot could be executed. Aiello, angst-ridden from the constant need to hide out and the killings of several of his men, set up residence in the Chicago apartment of Unione Siciliana treasurer Pasquale "Patsy Presto" Prestogiacomo at 205 N. Kolmar Ave. On October 23, upon exiting Prestogiacomo's building to enter

6440-483: Was Capone's consigliere , was named head of the Unione Siciliana , a Sicilian-American benevolent society that had been corrupted by gangsters. An infuriated Joe Aiello , who had wanted the position himself, believed Capone was responsible for Lombardo's ascension and resented the non-Sicilian's attempts to manipulate affairs within the Unione. Aiello severed all personal and business ties with Lombardo and entered into

6532-486: Was also the front man for the Chicago Outfit until he was imprisoned for tax evasion in 1932. Capone showed promise as a student but had trouble with the rules at his strict parochial Catholic school . His schooling ended at the age of 14 after he was expelled for hitting a female teacher in the face. Capone worked at odd jobs around Brooklyn, including a candy store and a bowling alley. From 1916 to 1918, he played semi-professional baseball . Following this, Capone

6624-562: Was an attempt on Weiss' life in the Chicago Loop . On September 20, 1926, the North Siders used a ploy outside Capone's headquarters at the Hawthorne Inn aimed at drawing him to the windows. Gunmen in several cars then opened fire with Thompson submachine guns and shotguns at the windows of the first-floor restaurant. Capone was unhurt and called for a truce, but the negotiations fell flat. Three weeks later, on October 11, Weiss

6716-400: Was an independent operator. A 1929 report by The New York Times connected Capone to the 1926 murder of Assistant State Attorney William H. McSwiggin, the 1928 murders of chief investigator Ben Newmark, and former mentor Frankie Yale. Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, despite being at his Florida home at the time of

6808-491: Was arrested on vagrancy charges when visiting Miami Beach; the governor had ordered sheriffs to run him out of the state. Capone claimed that Miami police had refused him food and water and threatened to arrest his family. He was charged with perjury for making these statements, but was acquitted after a three-day trial in July. In September, a Chicago judge issued a warrant for Capone's arrest on charges of vagrancy and then used

6900-421: Was chased through the streets on polling day by cars of gunmen before being shot dead. Four policemen were among those charged along with Belcastro, but all charges were dropped after key witnesses recanted their statements. An indication of the attitude of local law enforcement toward Capone's organization came in 1931 when Belcastro was wounded in a shooting; police suggested to skeptical journalists that Belcastro

6992-437: Was convicted of five counts in 1931. During a highly publicized case, the judge admitted as evidence Capone's admissions of his income and unpaid taxes, made during prior and ultimately abortive negotiations to pay the government taxes he owed. He was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in federal prison . After conviction, he replaced his defense team with experts in tax law , and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by

7084-427: Was effective either way." Paste gave the episode a 7.6 out of 10 rating and wrote, "'The Devil You Know' completes the stories for two of Boardwalk Empire ' s leading men, and, as such, it's impossible to watch without wondering about the entirety of their arcs. Did they make sense? Did they add something to the show, or were they somewhat incoherent? It's an uncomfortable question for Boardwalk Empire because

7176-512: Was indicted by a grand jury and a trial was held before Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge John E Walsh. Entering a guilty plea by his attorney, Capone was sentenced to a prison term of one year. On August 8, 1929, Capone was transferred to Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary . A week after his release in March 1930, Capone was listed as "Public Enemy #1" on the unofficial Chicago Crime Commission's widely publicized list. In April 1930, Capone

7268-410: Was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio , whom he came to regard as a mentor. Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin at age 19, on December 30, 1918. She was Irish Catholic and earlier that month had given birth to their son Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone (1918–2004). Albert lost most of his hearing in his left ear as a child. Capone was under the age of 21, and his parents had to consent in writing to

7360-454: Was killed outside the North Siders' headquarters at O'Banion's former flower shop. The owner of Hawthorne's restaurant was a friend of Capone's, and he was kidnapped and killed by Moran and Drucci in January 1927. Capone became increasingly security-minded and desirous of getting away from Chicago. As a precaution, he and his entourage would often show up suddenly at one of Chicago's train depots and buy up an entire Pullman sleeper car on

7452-469: Was linked to the murder of Julius Rosenheim, who served as a police informant in the Chicago Outfit for 20 years. U.S. Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt is said to have originated the tactic of charging obviously wealthy crime figures with federal tax evasion on the basis of their luxurious lifestyles. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Sullivan that

7544-475: Was receiving special treatment. No solid evidence ever emerged, but it formed part of the rationale for moving Capone to the recently opened Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco, in August 1934. On June 23, 1936, Capone was stabbed and superficially wounded by fellow Alcatraz inmate James C. Lucas . Due to his good behavior, Capone was permitted to play banjo in the Alcatraz prison band,

7636-475: Was released from prison on November 16, 1939, and referred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for the treatment of syphilitic paresis . Because of his unsavory reputation, Johns Hopkins refused to treat him, but Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital did. Capone was grateful for the compassionate care that he received and donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to Union Memorial Hospital in 1939. After

7728-537: Was returning from a shopping trip when he was shot several times. After recovering, he effectively resigned and handed control over to Capone, aged 26, who became the new boss of an organization that took in illegal breweries and a transportation network that reached to Canada, with political and law-enforcement protection . In turn, he was able to use more violence to increase revenue. Any establishment that refused to purchase liquor from Capone often got blown up, and as many as 100 people were killed in such bombings during

7820-591: Was right about Van Alden being an undercover agent, Capone threatens to kill him, but Van Alden strangles him, finally confessing his real name and past in a crazed rage. However, he is killed by D'Angelo before he can kill Capone. Shaken, Eli confesses that they were forced to retrieve the ledger because a Federal agent forced them, but he misidentifies the agent as Eliot Ness . Capone orders D'Angelo to kill Eli, also giving D'Angelo his ledgers for safekeeping. Finally obtaining enough evidence, D'Angelo secretly releases Eli, allowing him to escape back to Atlantic City. Nucky

7912-468: Was seen as a weak personality, and so out of his depth dealing with bullying at the hands of fellow inmates that his cellmate, seasoned convict Red Rudensky , feared that Capone would have a breakdown. Rudensky was formerly a small-time criminal associated with the Capone gang and found himself becoming a protector for Capone. The conspicuous protection by Rudensky and other prisoners drew accusations from less friendly inmates and fueled suspicion that Capone

8004-467: Was seen by an estimated 1.55 million household viewers with a 0.7 in the 18–49 demographics. This means that 0.7 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 21% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 1.94 million household viewers with a 0.8 in the 18-49 demographics. "Devil You Know" received critical acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 100% approval rating for

8096-454: Was sent to Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in May 1932, aged 33. Upon his arrival at Atlanta, Capone was officially diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhea . He was also experiencing withdrawal symptoms from cocaine addiction, the use of which had perforated his nasal septum. Capone was competent at his prison job of stitching soles on shoes for eight hours a day, but his letters were barely coherent. He

8188-410: Was somber and sad. Totally fitting this show's treatment of its "former giants." It was supposed to hurt and it did. "Good Pain" TV at its best. Van Alden's death was a bit more jolting and comedic, but it still fit with his chaotic, mishap-filled life in Chicago. Which often felt like a different show sometimes." Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote, "If 'Devil You Know' – instantly one of a handful of

8280-730: Was subsequently gunned down. In the wake of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, Walter A. Strong , publisher of the Chicago Daily News , asked his friend President Herbert Hoover for federal intervention to stem Chicago's lawlessness. He arranged a secret meeting at the White House, just two weeks after Hoover's inauguration. On March 19, 1929, Strong, joined by Frank Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission , and Laird Bell , made their case to

8372-433: Was that he ceased to be boss immediately on his imprisonment, but those involved in the jailing of Capone portrayed it as a considerable undermining of the city's organized crime syndicate. Capone's underboss , Frank Nitti , took over as boss of the Outfit after he was released from prison in March 1932, having also been convicted of tax evasion charges. Far from being smashed, the Outfit continued without being troubled by

8464-521: Was the biggest in Chicago, with Capone as his right-hand man. Torrio was wary of being drawn into gang wars and tried to negotiate agreements over territory between rival crime groups. The smaller North Side Gang , led by Dean O'Banion , came under pressure from the Genna brothers who were allied with Torrio. O'Banion found that Torrio was unhelpful with the Gennas' encroachment, despite his pretensions to be

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