Jonathan Eig

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American History Tellers · St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3 · 18 Feb 2026 podcast

And later, when the Great Depression hits and he realizes that Herbert Hoover is on his back and Herbert Hoover is being blamed for people starving and losing their homes, then Capone takes it up a notch.

and opens a soup kitchen and says, look, the government doesn't care about you.

I think it's very much his personality.

He's very charming and outgoing.

He's gregarious.

He likes people, likes to go to sporting events.

And I think he genuinely wants to be a regular guy.

And he enjoys the fact that he's got this money.

But he's also really trying to earn sympathy.

He's given these interviews where he's saying, you know, I'm a dad.

I want my boy to grow up with a father.

I want my wife to like her hair is turning gray.

At one point, he actually asked his wife to come in the room to show this reporter that, look, her hair is turning gray.

Look how worried she is.

So it's fascinating to see this cold-blooded, ruthless criminal also begging for sympathy and wanting to be understood.

And I guess it's just a reminder that even the bad guys are human in a way.

Well, for one thing, the Supreme Court decides that illegal income is taxable.

So think about that for a second.

If you have illegal income, whether you're stealing from your bank, from your own employer, or if you're robbing people at gunpoint, are you going to declare that on your taxes?

Are you going to describe that you made this money by stealing paintings and fencing them, right?

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