A package of economic measures put together by the government to stimulate a floundering economy. The objective of a stimulus package is to reinvigorate the economy and prevent or reverse a recession by boosting employment and spending.
He married an Irish Catholic, Mae Coughlin, and they had a son, Albert Francis Capone, born December 4, 1918. Baby Albert was born with congenital syphilis, which Al later admitted he had contracted many years before, but had thought the disease had gone away when it went into remission.
Capone was treated for gonorrhea in 1925 and was reported to have a positive Wassermann test in 1931. The accuracy of the Wassermann test especially given the ways the results were collected in the Alabama heat and sent off to PHS laboratories, is yet another issue needing further analysis.