Al Capone $100,000 for 1928 and 1929, for instance. Hence, without any investigation, the government had been given a letter from a lawyer acting for Capone conceding his large taxable income for certain years. In 1931, Capone was charged with income tax evasion, as well as with various violations of the Volstead Act (Prohibition) at the Chicago Federal Building in the courtroom of Judge James Herbert Wilkerson. U. S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson agreed to a deal that he hoped might result in the judge giving Capone a couple of years, but Judge Wilkerson had been aware of the deal all
Capone (film) of April 27, 1926, Capone places a hit on Weiss for shooting Johnny, and he and his men ambush four of Weiss's men, plus a State's Attorney, at a Cicero inn in the hopes of killing Weiss along with them. Two of the men and the State's Attorney are shot dead. On listening to the news, however, it is revealed that Capone and his men did not kill Weiss, much to Capone's chagrin. Capone is brought before lawyer Robert E. Crowe, who decides to have Capone face a grand jury for organized murder, but Capone reveals that he paid the