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nearly nine hours of court, the jurors found Capone guilty of three felonies and two misdemeanors, relating to his failure to pay and file his income taxes between the years 1925 and 1929. Capone simply said to this “The income tax law is a lot of bunk. The government can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.” Capone believed to be responsible for at least 300 murders and ended up just being charged with tax evasion. Judge Wilkerson sentenced Capone to serve 11 years in prison and to pay $80,000 in fines and court costs in addition to the $210,000 in over due taxes. The penalty was more severe than Capone had expected (URL:http://www.nara.gov/nara/ events/calendar/capone.html 3). During this time the Chicago Crime Commission (CCC) issued its first Public Enemies List

which had 28 names on it, and Al Capone’s was the first. Known as Public Enemy Number 1, Al Caponehad become the symbol for the Prohibition era URL:http://www.disc.com/celebs/20cen/capone.html 1) Capone was sentenced to Atlanta’sfederal prison for 11 years. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz prison in SanFrancisco. He was paroled in 1939. Following his release, he never returned to Chicago.He had become mentally incapable of returning to the “mob life.” He spent the rest of his life in Palm Island mansion with his wife and immediate family, in a secluded atmosphere (URL:http://www.nara.gov/nara/events/ calendar/capone.html 5). In 1946, his physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist both concluded that Al Capone had the mental ability of a 12-year-old child. He died due to

a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947 because he was suffering from syphilis (Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia 1996, 1997 Compton’s NewMedia).