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[narrator] Look at yourself.
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Just another cog in the machine.
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[man] A working stiff is stuck in a life.
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They play by the rules,
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and they get fucked.
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[narrator] You've tried doing things
the right way,
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but the deck is stacked against you.
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I can show you how to get the money,
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power, and respect
you've been denied for too long.
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It's inside this playbook.
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A series of tactics
that the world's most powerful mob bosses
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use to become masters
of their own destiny.
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One hit...
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[gunshot]
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...at a time.
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[theme music playing]
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Sure, this life isn't for everybody.
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But follow their examples,
and you can learn how to use these tools
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to make a killing.
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[gunshot]
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[narrator] When I say mob boss,
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what comes to mind?
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Ah, so literal.
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A mob boss is someone
who knows how to beat the system.
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A mob boss is basically
the CEO of an organization.
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And some of these organizations
are very big,
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and some of them make
an awful lot of money.
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[narrator] And when problems arise...
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We have different ways
of dealing with them.
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We do it with fucking fear.
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We're ferocious!
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[narrator] The gangland giants
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who run the two-trillion-dollar-a-year
organized crime industry
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know the value of structure,
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public relations,
and a diversified portfolio.
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Before you can flex your muscle as a boss,
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you need to follow the playbook's guide
to climbing the corporate ladder.
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And few elevated themselves
as high or as quickly
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as the barber's son from Brooklyn
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who would grow up
to become the original gangster.
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[reporter] Here he comes!
The big boy himself!
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[narrator] Al Capone.
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By the time he turned 30,
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Al Capone was king
of the Chicago underworld,
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running a vast criminal empire
that raked in over $100 million.
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While leaving a trail of bodies
across the Windy City.
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But it's how he got started
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that will be your first lesson
in self-improvement.
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You want the success
that comes with being a boss. You do!
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[narrator] Ready to begin launching
your own empire?
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To be a successful mob boss,
first of all, you have to be driven.
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You have to be ambitious.
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You have to be smart
and know how to motivate
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and, at times, frighten people
to keep them in line.
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[narrator] As with any pursuit,
developing this skill set
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takes studious practice
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and a goal-oriented approach.
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Guys who gravitated toward the mob
were looking for a way to succeed.
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They didn't have education.
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They weren't able to go to college,
and so they thought,
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"I can rob somebody.
I can beat somebody up."
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Who's gonna value that?
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Organized crime does.
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[narrator] And as you'll see,
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most criminal kingpins
unlock their potential at an early age.
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Future New York City mob boss
John Gotti was arrested five times
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before his 21st birthday.
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And as a kid, he nearly lost his toes
when they were crushed
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under a cement mixer
he was trying to steal.
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It's how he developed his trademark strut.
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Sicilian mob boss Salvatore Riina
assisted in his first murder
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at just 18 years old,
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helping to kill a trade union official
who had publicly embarrassed Riina's boss.
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And as a teen,
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Medellín drug cartel founder Pablo Escobar
made his schoolteacher mom proud,
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selling fake diplomas before graduating
to falsifying report cards.
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Young Al Capone would also prove to be
a gifted student of the criminal arts.
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[man 2] Capone's a child of immigrants.
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His father came to the country first.
He was a barber in Brooklyn.
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They were pasta makers back in Italy.
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So Capone wasn't born into this.
It was America that created the mobster.
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[man 3] He got pretty good grades
in school while he went there.
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But he left in the sixth grade,
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possibly because of an altercation
with the teacher.
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Possibly, he just got bored
and wanted to go make money.
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[narrator] Before long,
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Al would discover the ideal outlet
for his entrepreneurial spirit.
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One year, for his birthday,
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Capone's father gives him the gift
every kid dreams of.
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A shoeshine kit.
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As young Al waits for customers,
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he spots another, more profitable
moneymaking venture in action
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at the hands of local mobster
Don Battista Balsamo.
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Capone is impressed
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and inspired.
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[mischievous music plays]
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The next day,
he recruits two of his cousins
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to give his own business a leg up
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by roughing up his competition.
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Little Capone tells the boy
that if he wants to avoid further trouble,
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he's going to have to pay up.
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"Will this be every week?" the kid asks.
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"Of course not," says Capone,
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"It's gonna be every day."
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You can see the street smarts
in the protection racket, for sure.
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This shows us that he was resourceful,
that he had ambition, that he had ideas,
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and he had the kind of business sense
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that would work perfectly
for being a mobster.
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[narrator] Of course, it's one thing
to show you have the character to succeed,
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but you'll never make it
all the way to mob boss
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without the right direction.
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Let the playbook show you the way.
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[upbeat music plays]
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No matter how smart
or tough you think you are,
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nobody gets ahead
in the mob game entirely on their own.
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You're going to need a mentor.
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It's important to have somebody
who believes in you and wants to teach you
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because this is a dangerous world
you're getting into.
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If you line up on the wrong side,
get in bed with the wrong person,
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you won't last long.
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[narrator] But finding
the appropriate tutor
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is going to take some work.
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You can't just go up to somebody
and say, "Hey, I'd like to be like you."
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You know, somebody has to say,
"You have what it takes,"
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and then, you know,
you do whatever necessary work
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to prove yourself,
and that's how it happens.
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[narrator] Young Al Capone showed
his dedication to the playbook
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by seeking out
not one underworld mentor, but two.
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John Torrio is regarded
as an underworld genius.
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Criminal, of course, did illegal things,
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but in his chosen profession, he's viewed
as a very, very savvy individual.
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[Jonathan] And every kid
on the streets of Brooklyn
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in Capone's neighborhood
knew who Johnny Torrio was.
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So when Capone got to meet Johnny Torrio,
and Johnny Torrio said to him,
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"If you ever need a job, come see me."
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That was big.
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Eventually, Capone started
running errands for him,
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like delivering guns in paper bags,
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picking up the money
from the night at the local brothels.
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Torrio became
almost a father figure to Al Capone.
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[narrator] From Torrio,
young Capone learned these rules.
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Dress for success.
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Keep your mouth shut.
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And when it comes to staying on top,
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remember, money is power.
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These young guys in the mob,
they get pretty chesty.
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They think they know everything.
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Capone was humble
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[narrator] As for mentor number two,
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Capone also took lessons from this guy.
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Brooklyn's top racketeer, Frankie Yale.
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Frankie Yale was a very violent man.
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[gun shots]
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[Jonathan] This was one
of the most dangerous men in New York.
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And for Capone not to be scared,
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for Capone to want to work for this guy
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[narrator] Frankie Yale taught Capone
an alternate set of skills.
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Always show you mean business.
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Never get outgunned.
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And make sure
your reputation precedes you.
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And when Capone started
working at Frankie Yale's bar,
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the Harvard Inn on Coney Island,
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he got that chance
to prove himself as a worthy pupil.
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Nineteen-year-old Al Capone
is paying his dues as a busboy.
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When one night,
a young woman catches his eye.
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[mischievous music plays]
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He tries to win her over.
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Then he tries again.
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When his advances fail,
he goes for a more direct approach.
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Her brother, Frank Galluccio,
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an associate of New York mob boss
Lucky Luciano, has seen enough.
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The much larger Capone
soon gains the upper hand.
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Galluccio pulls a knife
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and slashes Al's face.
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Capone, now scarred for life,
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wants revenge,
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but Frankie Yale says no.
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He won't allow
his pupil's rage to start a war
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that could take them both down.
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Capone agrees to drop the beef,
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but he'll later exact
an even sweeter revenge...
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making Galluccio his errand boy.
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Capone was a good student of his mentors,
picking things up from them,
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learning whatever lessons
there were to be learned.
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The fact that he had Frankie Yale
on his side probably helps explain
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why he survived his teens.
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Because he was engaged in risky work,
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but he had important people
looking out for him.
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[narrator] Now that you've built
a foundation for your future,
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it's time to start forging your own path.
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I'm on my way to the top,
and I'm gonna get there.
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[narrator] To break from the pack,
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you're going to need to prove
that you're leadership material.
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And nothing says that
like a million-dollar idea.
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[soft music plays]
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[Renee] You want to rise to the top?
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You have to be an earner. Big earner.
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You have to know how to make that money.
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[narrator] And you can't let anything
get in the way
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of bringing your financial vision to life.
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Take it from Al Capone.
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Capone decided to move to Chicago
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because he sees a chance
to do something bigger with his life.
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Chicago is a big bustling town,
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and he gets there
just as Prohibition's beginning.
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[narrator] After World War I,
the best minds in the US Congress
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decided that the key to growing
American power and prosperity
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was to make alcohol illegal.
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But Capone had a more skeptical view
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of his countrymen's tolerance
for sobriety.
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Capone realized that the masses
are not going to embrace this law.
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And that's when you begin
to have to think like a businessman.
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How can we take advantage?
That's the key moment.
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He realized
that there's millions to be made
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because consumers want that product,
and we're gonna provide it for them.
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[narrator] That cool glass of opportunity
the government served up
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was called bootlegging.
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And there were options
to serve every palate.
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[mid-tempo music plays]
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If whiskey was your drink of choice,
you could sell it as medicine.
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With a doctor's prescription,
any lush could get their fix.
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Or you could find creative ways
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to import your hooch
from across the Canadian border.
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If you preferred the sweet stuff,
there was also rum-running,
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smuggling in the finest spirits
from overseas right off the boat.
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But to make even more money,
beer was the frosty ticket.
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Bootleggers took over shuttered breweries.
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And when the cops came calling,
they convinced them to look the other way.
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Then they added some clever labeling
and watched the cash pour in.
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But if you really wanted to make it rain,
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you could do it all.
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Shortly after arriving in Chicago
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and reconnecting
with his old mentor John Torrio,
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Capone turned his focus
towards starting a bootlegging operation.
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In the beginning,
Capone was mostly muscle for Torrio.
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But gradually,
Johnny Torrio began to realize
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that Capone was also
an excellent businessman.
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That he was a smart, charismatic leader.
That people would work for him.
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[narrator] But the path to realizing
Capone's criminal vision
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faced a roadblock.
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Chicago's top gangster
and Torrio's current boss,
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Big Jim Colosimo.
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Big Jim Colosimo does not want
to get involved in bootlegging.
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He's very happy with his restaurant,
his brothel, and his casino.
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He was not willing to embrace
the risk involved in going bigger.
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[narrator] Capone wasn't one
to let small minds
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get in the way of a great idea.
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So he and Torrio had to find a workaround.
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At some point,
they decided that Big Jim had to go.
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[narrator] With his path
to illicit riches on the line,
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Capone isn't going to trust
just anyone to rub out Big Jim.
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He knows just the guy to call.
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His other mentor and former boss
from New York, Frankie Yale.
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Capone organizes the details
and offers Yale $10,000 to do the job.
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That's around 150,000 today.
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[ominous music plays]
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On Capone's instruction,
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Yale enters Colosimo's Restaurant
and takes his position.
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Shortly before 4:00 p.m.,
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Colosimo arrives
to meet with an associate,
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but the man never shows.
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Colosimo heads to the phone booth
to find out what's going on,
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leading him right into the trap.
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[gunshots]
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Big Jim is hit behind his right ear
and dies on the spot.
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The murder rocks the Chicago underworld
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and allows Capone to turn
his bootlegging vision into reality.
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[upbeat music plays]
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Within the next three years,
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Capone and Torrio take over
nine major breweries.
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Very quickly, it becomes clear
that these are the guys.
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That they're controlling
the booze business.
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That these giant breweries,
once owned by big legitimate companies,
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are now being operated by these two guys.
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[narrator] Capone's bootlegging strategy
helped grow
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Torrio's operation into a criminal empire,
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raking in at least
three million dollars a year.
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That's 51 million today.
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And eliminating their key obstacle
had another benefit,
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vaulting John Torrio
to the top of the Chicago underworld,
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with Capone as his number two.
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As you move up the ranks to heir apparent,
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your ultimate path to boss status
is still far from assured.
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So, how do you preserve
your place in line?
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When you become a mob boss,
you'll get to call the shots.
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Don't you ever say that
to me again, ya hear?
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[narrator] But to earn that promotion,
you need to show one trait above all.
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Loyalty.
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You have to play your position.
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If your position is left fucking field,
you play left field.
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If your position is collect money
on Thursdays from the card games,
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that's what you do.
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You do what you're told.
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[dramatic music plays]
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[narrator] As Al Capone's date
with destiny neared,
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he made sure that his boss
John Torrio knew he had his back.
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He was a young man.
He was still learning the trade.
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He was making money.
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He wasn't someone, at least at that time,
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who appeared ready
to take on the reins as the boss.
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[narrator] But in the underworld,
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life moves fast.
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[upbeat music plays]
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The Beer Wars in Chicago
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were a result of this infighting
among the different bootlegging gangs.
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It was a lot of violence
in terms of turf wars.
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There were shootings.
There were revenge shootings.
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[narrator] One major front saw
Torrio and Capone's South Side outfit
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facing off against their bootlegging rival
to the north,
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Dean O'Banion,
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a florist by day.
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[Adam] So, Dean O'Banion started trying
to move into Torrio's territory.
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And at this point,
Torrio was starting to get fed up.
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[narrator] And being a loyal soldier,
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Capone knew what to do and whom to call.
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He ordered another hit
from his old mentor, Frankie Yale.
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O'Banion was working in his flower shop.
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A few guys came in,
nobody that he recognized,
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and one of them was Frankie Yale.
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And he greeted them warmly,
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and they gave him
what's called the Chicago handshake.
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They grabbed his hand, pulled forward,
stuck a gun in his guts and fired.
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[narrator] That's one threat
out of the way,
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but O'Banion had a lot of friends.
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After the O'Banion murder,
Capone begins taking more precautions,
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surrounding himself
with bodyguards for protection.
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Torrio isn't as concerned.
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After a shopping spree,
Torrio and his wife return home,
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where O'Banion's crew is lying in wait.
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They shoot Torrio five times,
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but he survives.
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As Torrio recovers,
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Capone seizes the chance
to prove his devotion.
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Capone goes to the hospital,
sits by Torrio's side,
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makes sure nobody comes in
to try to finish the job.
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He was loyal,
and he showed care for Torrio.
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[narrator] Al's patience
and loyalty pay off.
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After Torrio recovers,
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he tells Capone that he's going back
to New York to retire,
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making Capone, at just 26 years old,
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the new boss of the Chicago underworld.
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Six years after landing in the Windy City,
Al Capone becomes Chicago's top boss,
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but his honeymoon won't last long.
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By following the playbook's guide
to landing your dream job,
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you've unlocked your criminal talent,
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absorbed the right lessons,
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proved your earning potential,
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and positioned yourself for success.
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But now that you've got the job,
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jealous rivals will be out for blood.
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If you want to survive the coming storm,
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the playbook's next lesson
will make all the difference.
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You've made your way
to the top of the food chain,
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but it's only a matter of time
until the vultures start circling.
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On the street, everybody wants
to take from you what you have,
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and you always got to protect that.
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And violence is the best way to do it.
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[narrator] These other rookie mob bosses
would certainly agree.
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Just two months
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into Nicodemo Scarfo's reign
over the Philadelphia Mafia,
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he set his sights
on rivals in the city's Greek Mob,
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allegedly having boss Chelsais Bouras
and his girlfriend
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killed in a popular
south Philly restaurant
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so he could take over
the Greeks' drug rackets.
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When Yakuza lieutenant Hiroshi Yamamoto
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split from Japan's largest
criminal organization, the Yamaguchi-gumi,
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to form his own group,
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his first boss move was
to assassinate rival, Masahisa Takenaka,
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who had edged him out
for the role of Godfather.
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And while little Vic Orena
was in his first year
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as acting boss
of the Colombo crime family,
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he secured the organization's finances
by ordering the murder of Thomas Ocera,
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who was accused of skimming profits
from a family-owned sanitation company.
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[intense music plays]
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[narrator] With the Beer Wars raging...
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[reporter] More than five hundred
Chicago gangsters
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are slain by their own kind.
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[narrator] ...and ambitious competitors
set on undercutting
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his bootlegging operation,
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Capone's first year as boss
was a constant battle for survival.
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Enough guys smell weakness,
they're gonna take you out, kill you,
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and they're gonna beat you down
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till they take
what they want that you got.
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[narrator] When all you've worked for
is under threat,
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you have to send a message.
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[music crescendos]
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[guns firing]
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[narrator] It's April 27th, 1926.
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Rival bootleggers Myles and Bill O'Donnell
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boldly decide to enjoy a night of drinking
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on Capone's turf.
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They're soon joined by more friends.
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For weeks, the O'Donnells
had been trying to tank Capone's sales
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by disparaging the quality of his spirits.
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[murmuring]
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[narrator] When Capone learns
they're doing this in his own backyard,
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he decides not to take
this challenge lying down.
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He orders his men to race to the bar,
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and Capone declares the party's over.
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[guns firing]
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The brothers are hit,
but manage to escape.
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One of their friends isn't so lucky.
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It's a bad break for Capone as well,
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because he's just killed
Assistant State's Attorney,
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William McSwiggin.
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Capone almost certainly had no idea
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that Bill McSwiggin was going out
that night with those guys.
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[Adam] When they realized
the state's attorney had been murdered,
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everybody kind of panicked.
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This was not
just another gangster getting killed.
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[narrator] Capone's attempt
to secure his position has backfired
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as the entire Chicago police force
is mobilized to bring the new boss down.
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The cops turn up the heat
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and smoke out every joint in town.
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So Capone goes underground.
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From afar, Capone follows his own manhunt
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and watches as his legend grows.
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Finally, Capone decides
it's time to step out of the shadows
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and make a stand.
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He calls a press conference.
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He comes back to Chicago
on the courthouse steps
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and announces that Billy McSwiggin,
this state prosecutor, was one of my guys.
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He was on my payroll.
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[Adam] He said,
"Why would I have killed McSwiggin?"
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"I liked McSwiggin. I paid him plenty,
and I got what I paid for."
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"And if cops want
to talk to me about it, here I am."
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"Reporters have any questions?"
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"I'm running the outfit,
and I'm happy to talk to you about it."
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[narrator] Capone openly declares
himself the mob king of Chicago.
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And in an instant,
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Capone's legend is forged.
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That's the moment that launches
Capone into the national spotlight.
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[narrator] In the spotlight
is where he'll remain
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for five bloody and glorious years
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until he gets busted for the one thing
the government never tolerates...
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tax evasion.
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Still, Al Capone's mastery
of this chapter of the playbook
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brought him up
from the streets to the height of power.
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You might have to amass your fortune
without Al Capone's impeccable timing.
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And for that, you'll need
an ironclad business plan.
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One that revolutionizes an industry
and helps you build an empire.
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Your guide for the next chapter.
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Heroin tycoon Frank Lucas,
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who showed there's more than one way
to make it into the Fortune 500.
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Ready to rake in some real cash?
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[theme music playing]