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Interview with Scarface Quite a lot has been written and said about Al Capone in newspaper and magazine articles that are completely false. Here today, we will belie all the myths by interviewing the one and only Alphonse Capone, or as he has been come to be known, Al Capone. This amazing crime czar was strictly domestic- taking the feudal Italian criminal society and fashioning it into a modern American criminal enterprise. Before we start our personal interview, I would like to give some diminutive amount of background information on the man behind the scars. Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 22 Johnny Torrio, a bootlegger in Chicago, recruited him. Torrio had established his business after the passing of the Prohibition Act in 1920. This banned any sale of alcohol. Capone's job was to persuade speakeasy proprietors to buy Torrio's illegal alcohol. In no time, Capone had taken over Torrio's business and controlled 161 illegal drinking establishments. Capone developed the policy of killing his competitors to be on top. Capone is most remember for the infamous St. Valentines Massacre, where six leading members of the Bugs Moran gang were executed in a garage by gangsters dressed in police uniforms. What