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PROSECUTION
UNABLE TO GET AL CAPONE ON HIS MULTIPLE MURDERS ONLY KEEPING HIM FOR A NIGHT OR TWO BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. FRANK WILSON INVESTIGATED AL CAPONE TO TRY TO PUT HIM AWAY, WHILE SECRETLY GO THROUGH HIS RECORDS WILSON ACCIDENTALLY FINDS CASH RECEIPTS LEDGER THAT SHOWED NET PROFITS FOR GAMBLING AND BOOTLEGGING. THE LEDGER CLEARLY SHOWING THE RECORDS WERE AL CAPONES AND THAT HE HAD INCOME, HIS TAX LAWYER WAS LAWERENCE MATTINGLY DID NOT DISAGREE TO THESE ACTIONS; AL CAPONE DID INDEED HAVE INCOME AND WAS NOT PAYING HIS TAXES.
1931 AL CAPONE WAS CONVICTED OF TAX EVASION FOR 1925 THROUGH 1929. IN THE YEARS 1928 AND 1929 HE FAILED TO FILL A TAX RETURN AND YEARS 1922 TO 1929 HE WAS CHARGED WITH SUSPECTED VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITION LAW. Al CAPONE WAS BEING CHARGED WITH $215,080.48 IN TAXES SO HE TRIED MAKING A DEAL WITH THE JUDGE JAMES H. WILKERSON JUST LIKE HE HAD DONE SO MANY TIMES BEFORE. AL CAPONE COULD USUALLY STRIKE A BARGAIN AND RECEIVE EASY JAIL TIME OR NO PUNISHMENT AT ALL BUT JUDGE WILKERSON WOULD NOT MAKE ANY DEALS. AL CAPONE THAN STARTED TO MAKE DEALS WITH THE JURY BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE JURY WAS NOT PERSUADED WILKERSON CHANGED THE JURY AT THE LAST MINUTE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS LEGALLY FAIR. AL CAPONE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY FOR THE 18 OUT OF 23 CONVICTIONS HE HAS TO PAY 50,000 FOR ALL THE ILLEGAL ACTIONS THAT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY IN ALSO WELL AS THE PROSECUTION COSTS OF 7,692.29 DOLLARS. ALONG WITH ALL OF THE EXPENSES AL CAPONE HAD TO SPEND 10 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON AND 1 YEAR IN COUNTY JAIL.
1931 AL CAPONE WAS CONVICTED OF TAX EVASION FOR 1925 THROUGH 1929. IN THE YEARS 1928 AND 1929 HE FAILED TO FILL A TAX RETURN AND YEARS 1922 TO 1929 HE WAS CHARGED WITH SUSPECTED VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITION LAW. Al CAPONE WAS BEING CHARGED WITH $215,080.48 IN TAXES SO HE TRIED MAKING A DEAL WITH THE JUDGE JAMES H. WILKERSON JUST LIKE HE HAD DONE SO MANY TIMES BEFORE. AL CAPONE COULD USUALLY STRIKE A BARGAIN AND RECEIVE EASY JAIL TIME OR NO PUNISHMENT AT ALL BUT JUDGE WILKERSON WOULD NOT MAKE ANY DEALS. AL CAPONE THAN STARTED TO MAKE DEALS WITH THE JURY BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE JURY WAS NOT PERSUADED WILKERSON CHANGED THE JURY AT THE LAST MINUTE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS LEGALLY FAIR. AL CAPONE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY FOR THE 18 OUT OF 23 CONVICTIONS HE HAS TO PAY 50,000 FOR ALL THE ILLEGAL ACTIONS THAT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY IN ALSO WELL AS THE PROSECUTION COSTS OF 7,692.29 DOLLARS. ALONG WITH ALL OF THE EXPENSES AL CAPONE HAD TO SPEND 10 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON AND 1 YEAR IN COUNTY JAIL.
iMPRISONMENT
AL CAPONE EASILY PERSUADED THE GUARDS AND STAFF AT FEDERAL PRISONS TO CATER TO HIS EVERY NEED. AL CAPONE WAS ABLE TO GET TYPEWRITERS, RUGS, AND MIRRORS. IT WAS NOT SHORTLY AFTER HE ARRIVED THAT HE WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE FEDERAL PRISON IN ATLANTA. AUTHORITIES IN ATLANTA SOON REALIZED THAT FEDERAL PRISON WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD SUCH A POWERFUL MAN SO THEY MOVED HIM TO ALCATRAZ WHERE HE LOST ALL SENSE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD. HE STOPPED TRYING TO TAKE OVER AND SLOWLY HIS POWER DECREASED.
RELEASE
AL CAPONE WAS RELEASED BACK INTO THE WORLD ON NOVEMBER 16, 1939 AFTER SERVING HIS LAST YEAR IN THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IN CALIFORNIA. HE MOVED BACK TO PALM ISLAND WHERE HE SLOWLY ENTERED HIS DEATH BED. HE DIED ON JANUARY 25, 1947 AFTER REGAINING CONCISENESS FROM A STROKE AND DEALING WITH A SERVE FLU. ALL OF THESE COMBINED WITH A CARDIAC ARREST SET HIM TO HIS DEATH BED. AL CAPONE WAS BURIED IN MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY IN CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE THEN BEING TRANSFERRED TO CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE IN CARAMEL CEMETERY.