In 1925, Alphonse Capone, also known as "Scarface", became head of the Chicago crime organization and the most famous U.S. gangster of the twentieth century. In 1928, at the age of 28, he grossed 105 million a year from his operations and continued to dominate organized crime until 1931. It was then that he was imprisoned for income tax evasion. No other American gangster rose to the international reputation of Al Capone, whose historical image is a curious blend of ruthless gangster and a "distorted Horatio Alger hero who went from rags to riches to jail" (Nash, 1992). Nash goes on to characterize Capone as "a ruthless, murderous thug who killed without remorse--street smart, clever, and ingenious when it came to crime . . . killing without compunction . . . at the whims of a mercurial and murderous temperament" (Nash, 1992). Capone killed his friends as well as his enemies, while at the same time spending lavishly on himself and those about him. In fact, as Nash notes,......

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