A typed carbon letter dated May 6, 1931, marked "Personal & Confidential," addressed to Hon. G. A. Youngquist, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., and signed George E. Q. Johnson, United States Attorney. — Open the full imageJPG, 1600 × 2055 px, 0.3 MB

Letter from George E. Q. Johnson to G. A. Youngquist (6 May 1931)

Carbon of a 'Personal & Confidential' letter from U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson to Assistant Attorney General G. A. Youngquist asking to move their meeting earlier.

Date: 1931-05-06
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
NAID: 12021807
Rights: A record of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Department of Justice, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 118. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.

A typed carbon, marked “Personal & Confidential,” from George E. Q. Johnson, United States Attorney at Chicago, to Assistant Attorney General G. A. Youngquist in Washington, dated 6 May 1931. Johnson asks to move their meeting earlier because the Attorney General would attend a cabinet meeting.

The catalog describes the meeting as one to discuss the case against Al Capone. The letter itself does not name Capone. The catalog description calls Johnson “U.S. Attorney General”; that is an error in the catalog. He was the United States Attorney, and the letter is signed that way.

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itemLetter from Attorney General William D. Mitchell to George E. Q. Johnson (24 July 1931)The Attorney General approves the Chicago U.S. Attorney's proposal to recommend a sentence of two and one-half years if Capone pleaded guilty to the income-tax counts.

itemGeorge E. Q. Johnson's handwritten notes (8 October 1931)Handwritten notes dated 8 October 1931 that the catalog says U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson made during the Capone income-tax prosecution.