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Famous Old Time Gangsters Part 2
Picture Source: National Park Service J. Edgar Hoover Director of the FBI from May 10, 1924, until his death on May 2, 1972. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has released more material on some of the most famous gangsters of our time under the Freedom of Information Act. You will need Acrobat Reader to view the files. If you don't have it, it can be downloaded for free HERE. Source: FBI Except where otherwise noted. Warning, some of the Arcobat files are quite large and can take a long time to download, but they are worth the wait.
Al Capone Al Capone was a notorious gangster who conducted his illegal enterprises in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1920's. In 1929, the FBI was ordered by the Attorney General to investigate the legitimacy of an affidavit that petitioned for a postponement of Capone's appearance in response to a Federal Grand Jury subpoena. The investigation established that facts within the affidavit were indeed false. Capone was tried and convicted of contempt of court on February 25, 1931. When Capone was convicted for income tax evasion, the Judge ruled that the sentence for contempt of court should be served concurrently with the tax evasion sentence.
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Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kansas City Massacre The Kansas City Massacre involved the attempt by Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Vernon Miller and Adam Richetti to free their friend, Frank Nash, a Federal prisoner. At the time, Nash was in the custody of several law enforcement officers who were returning him to the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he had escaped on October 19, 1930.
Vernon Miller Adam Richetti
On the morning of June 17, 1933, a mass murder committed in front of Union Railway Station, Kansas City, Missouri, shocked the American public into a new consciousness of the serious crime problems in the Nation. The killings which took the lives of four peace officers and their prisoner, are now known as The Kansas City Massacre. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charles "Lucky" Luciano Picture Source: Library of Congress The infamous gangster, Charles Luciano was nicknamed "Lucky" after surviving a gangland "ride" in 1929. He had an extensive arrest record and in June, 1936, Luciano was convicted on 62 of 90 counts of compulsory prostitution and was sentenced to 30 to 50 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1946 on the condition that he would be deported to his native Italy. During the remainder of his life, the FBI received allegations from time to time that Luciano continued to direct criminal activities in the United States from his place of exile. He suffered a fatal heart attack in Italy in 1962.
Acrobat Files -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This files report information about the murder of seven members of the Bugs Moran gang on February 14, 1929. The investigation was conducted by the Chicago Police Department, not the FBI, because at that time there was no violation of Federal law that would allow the FBI to investigate.
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