James “Whitey” Bulger was born on September 3, 1929. His life of crime began when he was fourteen years old. When he was fourteen he was arrested for larceny. Larceny is just a different word for stealing. Bulger had also joined the “Shamrocks” street gang by then. Not too long after he was arrested for theft, he got arrested for assault and armed robbery. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center. In 1948, he was released and then he joined the Air Force. Even in the military he managed to cause trouble. He was sent to the military prison for assault many times. He also got arrested in 1950 for being absent without leave. Believe it or not, he still got an honorable discharge four years after he had joined the service. After he was released from the Air Force, he went back home to Massachusetts. Bulger spent his first serious time in prison when he had to spend time in Atlanta Penitentiary. He was sentenced for armed robbery and hijacking. Kevin Weeks, a mobster who was associated with Bulger said that Whitey was involved with Sidney Gottlieb and Project MK-ULTRA. Project MK-ULTRA was a government research experiment that researched the “behavioral engineering of humans.” Bulger and eighteen others had volunteered in order to get shorter sentences. The volunteer work they were doing was taking LSD and other drugs to help find a cure for schizophrenia for eighteen months. After that, in 1959, Bulger was sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It was at Alcatraz where he became good friends with Clarence Carnes. He was sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary three years later and the next year he was sent to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. He was finally released in 1965 after being in prison for a total of nine years. ... ... middle of paper ... ...Selden, New York over Christmas and he spent New Year’s in New Orleans. He spent weeks between Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco avoiding the police. Bulger was seen in London in 2002. That was the last time he was sen before he was fuinally arrested. On June 22, 2011 he was captured in Santa Monica, California. He ran the underground crime business in Boston for sixteen years and spent more than twelve years on the FBI Most Wanted list and was on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted” sixteen times. In my opinion, Whitey Bulger was obviously a bad guy but he was very interesting. It was interesting how he stayed low key and kept a low profile while he was being hunted. He was so saught out that there was a $2,000,000 reward for information about him. The FBI had made a Bulger Fugitive Task Force that included FBI agents and US Marshals. That’s pretty crazy!
He escaped and came to Sausalito, California. There he met John Paul Chase. Nelson worked with Chase as an armed guard for the truck used to transport illegal liquor. Together, they moved to Reno, Nevada, where Nelson had killed a person for being a witness to the United States mail fraud case.
Al Capone’s family came with a wave of other Italian immigrants that migrated to the United States in the 1800’s. Most immigrants in that time were living in poverty and in very urban areas. Capone’s family lived in the heart of Brooklyn, but his father was a successful barber which allowed them a slightly better lifestyle than most. Al Capone was the fourth of nine children and grew up with a very tight-knit Italian family who were trying to succeed in their new country”. Capone attended public school in the city and had a natural brightness by keeping a “B average” despite playing hooky on many occasions. The sixth grade showcased Capone’s short temper when he hit a female teacher who was lecturing him. This incident reveals the beginning of who Al Capone would come to be. After being suspended for his violence, he never officially furthered his education. He began his life of crime by joining the kid gangs that existed all over Brooklyn. These “gangs” were nothing more than children being hoodlums and participating in petty crimes, although they would be the ...
After leaving UCLA his senior year, Robinson enlisted in the US Army during World War II. He trained with the segregated U.S. 761st Tank Battalion. Initially refused entry to Officer Candidate School, he fought for it and eventually was accepted, graduating as a first lieutenant. While training at Fort Hood, Texas, Robinson refused to go to the back of a bus. He was court-martialed for insubordination, and therefore never shipped out to Europe with his unit. He received an honorable discharge in 1944, after being acquitted of all charges at the court-martial.
Throughout the movie, he is shown killing people in broad daylight with a machine gun to strangling one of his associates daughter-in-law. Both of these events were not made up, they were just a small crack in the many murders that Whitey committed in his lifetime. The movie also focused on Whitey’s involvement with the FBI. In the course of the movie, Whitey’s handler John Connolly, a lifelong friend of Bulger, looks the other way while he continues to commit violent crimes in exchange for information on the Patriarca Family. This was beneficial to both parties whereas Whitey was getting immunity and the ability to expand his empire while simultaneously taking out the competition. Black Mass did a good job of showing the love between Whitey and his son Douglas. In both the movie and real life Douglas was caught Reye’s syndrome, a disease that attacks your liver and brain. In the movie Whitey’s wife is taking care of Douglas as she normally would when he has the flu when he has a secure and falls into a coma. Unfortunately, Douglas dies when they pull the plug, deciding that he should not suffer. They show in the movie how after that point Whitey changed and never went back to his old self, which holds true in real life as
He was then drafted into the U.S. Army where he was refused admission to the Officer Candidate School. He fought this until he was finally accepted and graduated as a first lieutenant. He was in the Army from 1941 until 1944 and was stationed in Kansas and Fort Hood, Texas. While stationed in Kansas he worked with a boxer named Joe Louis in order to fight unfair treatment towards African-Americans in the military and when training in Fort Hood, Texas he refused to go to the back of the public bus and was court-martialed for insubordination. Because of this he never made it to Europe with his unit and in 1944 he received an honorable discharge.
He was first arrested on a disorderly conduct charge while working for fellow gangster Frankie Yale. At this time he also murdered two men to prove his willingness to kill, but he was not tried because of the gangland etiquette of “silence.” Capone was let off of all charges due to lack of proof. After Capone hospitalized a rival gang member, Yale sent him to Chicago until things blew over. He arrived there in 1919.
No other single gangster could be as infamous as Al Capone. Al Capone was the most powerful gangster to ever live. No one could stop his reign of crime, and anyone that got in his way, he would take out, even when it came to his friends. He was never convicted for any of the hundreds of crimes he committed; this is one of the most important facts that showed how many connections Capone had. It was until the 1930’s when Capone was convicted of tax invasion when he did his first jail sentence. He was transferred though many jails across America until he finally landed in Alcatraz. While serving his jail time Alphonse Capone became a victim of the deadly disease Syphilis. Al Capone died but his crime legacy will always live on.
From his childhood up until his death Al Capone lived a life full of gangs and violence. Being part of a gang started early when he was in New York and spread into his life in Chicago, when he joined part of Torrios operation committing and conducting crimes. Capone was arrested a lot but lack of evidence almost always kept him out of jail; Capone was a sneaky, intelligent business man that ruled the streets of Chicago.
...ne, when asked what he would do if he ever got out of jail, he said, "I'm already out" (FAQ's 2).
...nd was sent to Alcatraz when he was thirty-two years old. He arrived in August 1934. His prison number was eighty five while he was in prison, his brain started to deteriorate because he contracted syphilis from all the women he’s been with. His condition eventually got worse, so he had to be moved to a hospital. On January 25, 1947 Capone died from a heart attack at the age of 48.
Al Capone, probably the most notorious and well known gangster in history, was born in 1887 in Naples, Italy. His father, Gabriel Caponi, immigrated to Brooklyn from the slums of Naples in 1910. After he came here he changed his last name too Capone too blend in more. Al Capone’s gang activities started out when he was young. He was in the Five Points Gang, who were known for their violence. The gang’s tradition was to scar their victims with a knife cut from the outside corners of their eyes to their ears.
Al Capone was a child from an Italian immigrant family, And was one of the most Notorious and infamous Mafia leader in the world during the Prohibition Era in Chicago. Also he was known as "Scarface," Al Capone was sent to Alcatraz Prison in Philadelphia in 1931 from a tax evasion conviction. Al Capone had a personal fortune estimated at $100 million and was responsible for countless murders, His most famous one was the St.Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Capone was imprisoned in Eastern Penitentiary, where he stayed until March 16, 1930. Not too long after he was liberated for good conduct, but placed on the America's “Most Wanted” list. In 1931 Capone was accused of tax avoidance. He was found guilty and was sentenced to 11 years of prison. In 1934 Capone was transferred from the prison he was in, in Atlanta, to one of the most dangerous prisons in America -Alcatraz- located in San Francisco, California. Capone’s sentence was soon reduced to 6 ½ years, due to good conduct. Capone was released but still couldn’t return to his life of being mobster. He was growing old and was suffering from Syphilis. He became bewildered and unstable. After he was released he retired to a mansion near Miami, Palm Island Palace. Capone died on January 25, 1947 of cardiac arrest at the young age of 48 years old (“Al
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson of Liverpool, England, made international headlines in November of 1994, when they were convicted of murdering James Bulger, age two. The two boys, both ten at the time of the slaying, lured James away from his mother in a shopping mall, took him to a nearby railroad track, beat him brutally and left him to be cut in half by a train (Seifert 56).
Valentine's Day Massacre. No one could prove capone was behind it but everyone had a hunch that he did. So the government searched his luxurious apartment and found info about his income taxes. Capone was sentenced to 11 years in alcatraz for income tax evasion that he did not pay for 7 years. Normally he would not have gotten charged for income tax evasion on illegal income. But that changed when the supreme court ruled that money made from illegal activities was taxable and Capone did not file taxes.