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Al Capone: The Tax Case That Brought Down Chicago’s Gangster King
On October 17, 1931, a federal jury in Chicago returned guilty verdicts against Alphonse Capone on five income-tax counts. The surviving verdict, preserved by the National Archives, records a legal result built from financial inquiries, witness testimony, tax calculations, and a prosecution effort to connect income to Capone personally.
This episode follows the Bureau of Internal Revenue investigation from its 1930 financial leads through the 1931 indictments, trial, mixed verdict, sentencing, appeal, and imprisonment. It examines what witnesses Charles Arndt and Chester Bragg contributed…
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