Although the name Scarface will forever be linked with a scowling Al Pacino, it originated with one of America’s most notorious criminals, Al Capone. Made infamous by his sometimes-bullet-riddled ...

Al Capone, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and baseball star Barry Bonds have one thing in common - their careers were all torpedoed by the same federal agency: the Internal Revenue Service. As the ...

Before he became the mythical untouchable "Scarface," Alphonse Capone (1899–1947) was a young, cunningly brutal thug schooled by hard-boiled criminal minds in pre-Depression Brooklyn, N.Y. Capone ...

Jails keep prisoners in and prisoners’ enemies out. Last week Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) Capone, once Chicago’s No. 1 under-worldling, now a hunted exile “on the spot,” went behind the bars of ...

Chicago newsgatherers hurried out one day last week to interview Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) Capone, gunman. They found him arrayed in hunting clothes at his hotel. Mr. Capone had not been hunting humans ...

While every genre has movies that subvert tried and tested formulas, some of the best gangster movies of all time follow a similar blueprint. They typically chronicle mobsters who come from humble ...