St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3

About this episode

The episode discusses the federal government's pursuit of Al Capone following the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and how he was ultimately convicted for tax evasion.

In the aftermath of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, authorities faced mounting pressure to clean up Chicago and take down the violent mobsters who overran the city – most notoriously, Al Capone. The federal government took on the challenge, pursuing Capone relentlessly. In the end, Capone did go down – not for murder, but for tax evasion. And since Capone’s conviction in the 1930s, this unorthodox charge has been used repeatedly to bring down otherwise “ungettable” criminals.  To discuss how the feds finally closed in on Capone, Lindsay speaks with Jonathan Eig, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Lindsay

Guest: Jonathan Eig

Topics covered

• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Al Capone
• Chicago mobsters
• tax evasion
• law enforcement
• crime history

Keywords

• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Al Capone
• tax evasion
• mobsters
• Chicago
• law enforcement
• crime
• Jonathan Eig

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: federal government

Books & works: Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster

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