Jonathan Eig

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

He was arrested once for shoplifting, and that became a big national story.

Al Capone's son arrested for shoplifting.

But other than that, he appears to have lived a spotless life and had some daughters of his own.

So Capone had some grandchildren.

But his legacy really was his story.

Well, actually, one of the great consequences of the Capone investigation is that the government did learn a lesson.

And the lesson is that it worked, that they did the right thing, in essence.

And it's a lesson that we now see applied in many instances when the federal government is looking to take out someone who they think is a terrorist or might be a terrorist.

The first thing they do is they check their visa.

They look through their bank statements.

They look for income tax violations, because if you can't prove that somebody committed

is guilty of the more serious crime, the important thing is to take them out, to get them off the streets, to eliminate the danger that they represent.

And that is still to this day called a Capone-style case because the real important lesson that we take from the investigation of Al Capone is not that a terrible criminal was punished in the manner in which he deserved to be punished.

The real lesson is they found a technicality, they got him off the streets, and it served in many people's view the public good.

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