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Al Capone
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17 January 1899 - 25 January 1947
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An American gangster who operated in the 1920s and 1930s in Chicago. Under the cover of furniture business he was engaged in bootlegging, gambling and pimping. A prominent representative of organized crime in the United States, which originated and exists there under the influence of the Italian mafia. In popular culture, it is often referred to as the “Scarface.” Since it was difficult for Al Capone to spend the ill-gotten money under the scrutiny of the security services, he created a huge network
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An American gangster who operated in the 1920s and 1930s in Chicago. Under the cover of furniture business he was engaged in bootlegging, gambling and pimping. A prominent representative of organized crime in the United States, which originated and exists there under the influence of the Italian mafia. In popular culture, it is often referred to as the “Scarface.” Since it was difficult for Al Capone to spend the ill-gotten money under the scrutiny of the security services, he created a huge network of laundries with very low prices. It was difficult to track the real number of customers, so you could write almost any income. Hence the expression “money laundering”. For the same reason, in the United States, it is customary to wash clothes not at home, but in laundries, since their number remained considerable, and prices are low. Almost all his adult life he was ill with acquired syphilis, and his congenital form “rewarded” his son Sunny, conceived only at the age of 19.