Al Capone made about sixty million dollars aper year ($60,000,000) on which he paid no income or other taxes at a time when skillled workers made about one thousand dollars per year ($1,000).
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It is difficult to determine the exact amount of money Al Capone made during Prohibition, as much of his income was generated through illegal activities such as bootlegging and gambling. However, it is estimated that Capone's empire was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, making him one of the wealthiest crime bosses of his time.
Al Capone was the biggest gangster of the 1920s. He was wanted for bootlegging illegal alcohol during prohibition.
He was a major prohibition era Chicago gangster.
Capone power in crime started in 1919 at the start of the Prohibition Act.
Al Capone was one of the most famous mobsters in the U.S. He made his fortune during Prohibition. However, the type of cologne he wore is not known.
Prohibition, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, outlawed the production, transportation and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Because of Prohibition, people who were able to produce and ship illegal supplies of alcoholic beverages (in a practice known as bootlegging) were able to make massive profits. Al Capone was a highly successful bootlegger, and much of his criminal empire's profits were based on bootlegging.