As soon as Capone reached the legal age of fourteen, he
dropped out of school to live this economic dream of making money as a gangster
on the streets. 1.Al Capone was convinced that the opportunities for personal
advancement and material success were not available through legitimate means,
and so Capone turned toward the crime profession of bootlegging. Capone was a
smart man with a mission. 2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a
business like matter. Although prohibition was clearly illegal, Capone used his
prohibition as a business. His attire was that of a rich business man, along
with his ways of talking were also that of a business man. Everything Capone did
was set to flow like a business, and prohibition help him act out his business
Capone used prohibition to 3.make over a modern city for his own use, and
lived off it as blatantly and richly as a caesar of Rome. This edict that Capone
presented, seem to have establish the standards for the ways of the mafia today.
With this method of doing business, it would only dispense the mafia with more
control over meaningful people in their pursuit of organized crime both then and
now. 4.There are several cases on record about Capone in which the
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brought in through crime with business. Its all really common today to see a
2. Nelli, Humbert, The Business of Crime : Italians and
white collar individual use their professional look to bring about money to
5. Ianni, Francis, A Family Business ; Kinship and Social Control
with his ways of talking were also that of a business man. Everything Capone did
Expressing Capone's valued influence on the present day mafia would only seem
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