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Events on Saturday 17 October 1931 1
1931Al Capone convicted of tax evasionChicago's most notorious gangster is brought down by the tax codeA federal jury in Chicago convicted Al Capone on several counts of income tax evasion. A week later he was sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served most of the sentence in Atlanta and at Alcatraz.