Parts of Al Capone's IRS File Released

By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 13, 2008 11:44PM

Al Capone's IRS records are finally being made public, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request. (The IRS says, "All Federal tax records are confidential by law. The availability of historical records is highly unusual. However, the records of the criminal investigation of Al Capone below are of historical significance and of interest to the public.") The files are pretty amazing.

Alphonse Capone is, without a doubt, the best advertised and most talked of gangster in the United States today. ... He has been mentioned in connection with practically every major crime committed in Chicago within the last few years; possibly some of the stories are true, but, no doubt, a great deal of the stuff printed originated in the fertile brow of some newspaper reporter or magazine writer.

We'll be digging through them more in the next few days. [IRS]