A Cocktail Toast to the Mob
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The Life and Times of Al Capone
On October 18th, he was found guilty of the charges against him and sentenced to an astounding 11 years in prison. The prosecution's main argument rested upon the fact that if he was spending that much money, then he had to be earning it. At Alcatraz, Capone couldn't pay his way into comfort. By November of 1939, he was paroled in part because his cognitive faculties were deteriorating rapidly. Likely from his lifelong untreated syphilis. He spent the rest of his life at his mansion in Palm Island, Florida.
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