Jonathan Eig

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

There are no checkbooks with Capone's bank account.

There's no accounting to show how much money he was bringing in.

So they're saying Capone is earning millions of dollars, huge amounts of money.

How

How do they prove it to the jury?

Well, they can't.

So instead, they build a case by showing Capone's spending.

They're showing how much he's spending monthly on steaks, how much the curtains at his house cost, how much he's spending on clothing at his tailor and how much his house in Miami cost.

All of this is circumstantial evidence.

They're saying to the jury, no.

We don't know how he made his money, but we know he's got money.

And if he's got money, he should have paid taxes on it.

And he didn't.

So it's requiring a leap of faith.

And that's the leap of faith that the jury is willing to make.

It became clear enough.

This guy had a lot of money, who knows how much, but he didn't pay a penny of taxes.

Capone agreed in this plea bargain to two and a half years, and that was thrown out.

So he might have thought that he'd get three or four years.

So when he was sentenced to 11 years, you could imagine he was stunned.

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