Personal Narrative: Organized Crime

All it takes is a single mistake to ruin someone’s life. To the public, I used to be viewed as a celebrity. Recently however, I’ve been accused of being behind one of the most infamous crimes to ever happen. I’ve even been deemed Public Enemy No.1. But to get the whole story, I have to go back to where everything started. I was a teenager and had just dropped out of school, I had already started my career in what is known as, “Organized Crime,” at this time. I was involved with a few local operations near my hometown that focused on gambling. They mainly had me doing small jobs and running errands. Also, at this time in my life I met John Torrio, who I consider my mentor. He told me that I had potential for his kind of work, soon I found myself working with him managing his bootlegging business. However, I stopped working with Torrio around the time I got married. Two years later, I was invited to join Torrio in Chicago to again help with his operation. Sometime after I left Torrio got involved with gambling instead of bootlegging, but since the 18th Amendment had recently passed, alcohol was banned and Torrio said he wanted to get back into bootlegging. So, I went to Chicago to resume my career. …show more content…
I was able to bring in $100 million every year. I was the biggest and most well-known liquor dealer in the entire city of Chicago,which was filled with countless other gangs trying to do the same thing. This all came at a price. Since I was so well-known to the public, I was also very well known to the police. In 1926 I heard that two of my rivals were spotted in the city, so I ordered my men to “take care of business.” After this happened, the police had no evidence that linked it to me so they raided my headquarters, where they found papers that would later put me in prison. Despite this, I still remained free until one day in 1929 that would become the most infamous thing I’ve ever