Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti was one of Al Capone's top henchmen during his reign over the Chicago Mafia. Nitti, as his nickname would suggest, was in charge of the "muscle" within the Chicago family.

People who remember the old comic strip “Peanuts” will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, ...

On Oct. 17, 1931, at the Federal Building in Chicago, Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion. The charges, of course, were a proxy for a litany of more slippery crimes. Still, that was the end ...