"when did alcapone first join the mafia?

Answer 1

Capone was a gang member long before the "Cosa Nostra" AKA "The Five Families" was set up by "Lucky" Luciano in the 30's. And the "Chicago Outfit" had only indirect links with the "Cosa Nostra".

"Capone's life (1899-01-17 – 1947-01-25) of crime began early. As a teenager, he joined two gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors, and engaged in petty crime."

"Capone quit school in the sixth grade at the age of 14, after being expelled for punching a teacher at Public School 133. He then worked at odd jobs around Brooklyn, including in a candy store and a bowling alley. After his initial stint with small-time gangs, Capone joined the notorious Five Points Gang, headed by Frankie Yale."

"Al Capone" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Early_criminal_career

"The Five Points Gang was a 19th-century criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward (The Five Points) of New York City."

"The rackets and criminal activities that the Five Points Gang had established were taken over by the Mafia gangs that were becoming more powerful in the first twenty years of the century. Former Five Pointers like Torrio, Capone and Luciano became the new leadership of these groups and expanded their operations on a national and international basis. With the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, profits from bootlegged liquor became a huge earner for these groups, and what had been the Five Points Gang were absorbed into these Mafia families."

"Five Points Gang" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_Gang

"The most notorious recruit into the Five Points Gang was a teenaged boy of Italian descent who was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1899 to immigrant parents. His name was Alphonse Capone, better known as Scarface. He became a member of the James Street Gang, which was a minor league of sort, to the Five Pointers. One of Capone's childhood friends, and fellow member of the Five Points Gang, was another street thug named Lucky Luciano."

"In 1919, while being sought by authorities in connection with a gangland murder in New York, Al "Scarface" Capone moved to Chicago when summoned by Johnny Torrio. Torrio needed his assistance in maintaining control of Chicagoland mob territories."

"National Gang History" : http://www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html

"In 1905, the members of the Five Pointers inner circle consisted of Paul Kelly (Paolo Vaccarelli), Frankie Yale (Francesco Uale), Joe Brown (Joseph Castano), Humpty Jackson, and Joe Casseli. [...] The Five Pointers gang was one of the forerunners of the American Mafia and training camp for many of the twentieth century's most notorious gangsters. Al Capone was brought into the Five Pointers by Frankie Yale and was very close to Joe Brown. This was the reason Capone's favorite alias was Al Brown."

"FIVE POINTERS" : http://herbertasbury.com/fivepointers/

"Irish gangs like the Whyos, Dead Rabbits, and Plug Uglies, and Jewish gangs like the Monk Eastman Gang terrorized New York City streets. The most notorious gang during this era formed in New York City during the late 1890s and early 1900s. This gang, called the Five Points Gang because its home turf, was situated in the Five Points (Bowery) section of lower Manhattan, would change the mold of the American outlaw."

"The Five Points Gang, led by Italian immigrant Paolo Antonini Vaccarelli, also known as Paul Kelly, and his second in command, Johnny Torrio, was the most significant street gang to form in the United States to this point. Johnny Torrio, who became a significant member of the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra), recruited street hoodlums from across New York City to the Five Points Gang. Five Points Gang became the 'major league' to many young street gangsters, and a farm club for the Mafia."

"East Coast Gangs" : http://www.nagia.org/Gang%20Articles/East%20Coast%20Gangs.htm

"The original Black Hand gang is what later became known as La Cosa Nostra. They populated themselves in the ethnic Italian neighborhoods in New York. There was also the Five Points gang. The five points is in the fringes of Little Italy in New York. There's an intersection where five streets come together."

"In the late 1920s, early 30s, you had fierce competition in New York among rival Italian enterprises for control. In terms of influential people, one of the most in that time—and maybe all time—was Lucky Luciano. Lucky Luciano was a master organizer. He set up La Cosa Nostra in this country as we still know it today, with five families and the ruling Commission. He formed alliances with other enterprises, such as the Jewish mob. He was very close friends with Meyer Lansky, the preeminent Jewish gangster in New York during that time. Lucky Luciano basically did away with the title "Boss of Bosses." There was no single individual who ran the whole show."

"Talking to the Feds", Interview with chief of the FBI's organized crime Matt Heron, Smithsonian.com : http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/april/mob.php

"In the 1910s and 1920s in New York City, the Sicilian Mafia developed into the Five Points Gang."

"By the end of the 1920s, two factions of organized crime had emerged [the old guard Sicilians in the American Mafia, and the "Young Turks" following Luciano EVT], causing the Castellamarese war for control of organized crime in New York City. With the murder of Joseph Masseria, the leader of one of the factions, the war ended uniting the two sides back into one organization now dubbed Cosa Nostra. Salvatore Maranzano, the first leader of American Mafia, was himself murdered within six months and Charles "Lucky" Luciano became the new leader. Maranzano had established the code of conduct for the organization, set up the "family" divisions and structure, and established procedures for resolving disputes. Luciano set up the "Commission" to rule their activities. The Commission included bosses from six or seven families."

"Mafia : American Cosa Nostra : The rising: the Prohibition" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cosa_Nostra#American_Cosa_Nostra

Answer 2

Your friend is a idiot for wanting to join the mafia? Why? There is nothing wrong with wanting to join the mafia asshole! The mafia are good people! Joining the mafia doesn't make you a idiot! U r a ******* ****! And wow! What a great friend you are! Showing no support for him whatsoever! You do realize that you can join the mafia right? Of course there is a way! How else the people get into the mafia? You understand the people have to join a gang before they start one right? I can't believe how stupid you are. Anyone can join the mafia as long as they have a connection. How do you think all the other members got in? You are seriously stupid!

Answer 3

Al Capone Childhood Facts

Answer 4

Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era.

Answer 5

Who said he ever was in the Mafia ? He has his own "gang", and there were many others around at that time. 1920's...