Modern Era · North America · Politics
1931
Al Capone convicted of tax evasion
1931
After years of organized crime that federal prosecutors could not pin on him, Al Capone was finally brought down by Treasury agents on tax charges. He got eleven years at Alcatraz. Syphilis finished him off in the 1940s. The government had found its formula for dismantling organized crime: follow the money.
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Also in 1931 (5 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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