IV.

Downfall

Although Capone was a well-known gangster, he had stayed out of the reach of the law and defeated several murder charges. The law finally caught up with him in 1931, when Capone was convicted of income tax evasion. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and spent part of the time at the high-security facility on Alcatraz island, but he was released on parole in 1939. Crippled by syphilis, he spent the rest of his life in Miami, Florida. He died in Miami on January 26, 1947.