Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays

My wish for all of us during the 2017 holiday season are days filled with love, health, safety, laughter and family. Thank you all for your support and encouragement as I work to give the truth about my uncle Al Capone and the entire Capone Family. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays. My wish for 2018 is success and fulfillment.

Deirdre

Al Capone sits in prison as Prohibition ends.

On this date in 1933, Prohibition ended in the United States while my uncle Al Capone and his brother, my grandfather Ralph Capone, sat in prison serving time for income tax evasion. BTW in 1991 the American Bar Association retried my uncle for income tax evasion, using a real judge and jury, plus all of the evidence from the first trial. and he was found 'Not Guilty' on all counts. The income tax farce was purely political. If my family was still running the outfit on this date, they would have been awarded by the government and be given a license to run the first legal liquor distribution company in America.

Al Capone is my uncle and also my Godfather.

On November 15, 1939 my uncle Al Capone was released from Federal Prison and returned to Chicago. My grandfather Ralph, Al's older brother and business partner, arranged for a big 'coming home' party. Of course my father and mother were there, my mother due to give birth to me in January, my uncle Al was to be my Godfather. My mother told me that everyone there saw that Al was not acting in a normal fashion. He would go up to his sister and ask "Who are you?" Then he would go up to another person asking the same question. Then he went back to his sister, my
aunt Maffie, and ask the same question again, "Who are you?" My grandfather knew he needed some help. He called around and found a doctor in Baltimore. My family the next day took him to Baltimore where a doctor diagnosed that he was given drugs in prison that they claimed would treat his syphilis. My uncle was given injections of mercury in the Federal Prison hospital on Terminal Island. The hospital immediately began treating him by leaching the poisons out of his system. He was still in the hospital when I was baptized. In my book you will see copies of the telegrams that Al and his mother sent to my parents. His son stood in for him but in reality my uncle Al Capone is also my Godfather.

The other side of Al Capone

I was interviewed today, April 3, 2017 on the Bob Harden Show Radio Show in Naples, Florida. You can listen to the interview here.

http://bobharden.com/another-side-al-capone/

The St. Valentine's Day Truth

The St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago in 1929 not only made headlines but it almost destroyed my Capone family. No Capone had anything to do with this crime. Here is an excerpt from my book, Uncle Al Capone - The Untold Story from Inside His Family.

            The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre happened on the morning of February 14, 1929, St. Valentine’s Day.  Seven men sat in a garage at 2122 N. Clark Street waiting for George “Bugs” Moran, chief of the North Side gang.  They were also waiting for a delivery of booze “hijacked off a boat”.

            Later that afternoon they were all planning to go to Detroit to pick up some whisky.

            Pete Gusenberg and his brother Frank who were both payroll robbers, James Clark a stickup man, Johnny May a safe-blower, Al Weinshank a speakeasy operator, Adam Heyer the owner of the garage and Dr. Reinhardt Schwimmer who was an optometrist and a german shepard dog who was chained to one of the trucks were the occupants in the garage.

            The garage door opened and two men dressed as policemen entered the garage followed by three other men.  All seven occupants were machine gunned down instantly, the dog was unharmed.

            An inquiry by police and the state’s attorney identified three men.  Fred Burke, Jack McGurn and John Scalise.  And what my grandfather told me you have never read anywhere before.

“So what I'm telling you Deirdre, is that the Valentine’s day fiasco came as a complete surprise to me and Al. If we had planned it we would have gotten Moran, and not some of those other guys who were no threat to us.  But Al was right.  He did get blamed for it.  And. to this day, some people even think he did the shooting.”