Summary of Indictments in United States v. Alphonse Capone (1931)
Typed memorandum to 'Mr. Johnson' summarizing Capone's two income-tax indictments, No. 22852 (one count, 1924) and No. 23232 (twenty-two counts, 1925–1929).
- Date
- 1931
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 12021809
- Docket
- No. 22852 and No. 23232 (consolidated), U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill., Eastern Division
- 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.
The catalog title is “Summary of Indictments in the Case of the United States v. Alphonse Capone for Violation of the Income Tax Laws.” It is a typed memorandum addressed to “Mr. Johnson,” three pages long; the research read the first.
It says No. 22852 had one count, for 1924: attempted evasion on March 15, 1925, of a tax of $32,489.24 on net income of $123,101.89. It says No. 23232 had twenty-two counts: misdemeanor counts 13 and 18 for willful failure to file returns for 1928 and 1929, and twenty felony counts, four for each year from 1925 through 1929, with the tax and income stated for each year.
The years of counts 13 and 18 given here match the Seventh Circuit’s 1932 opinion. Its 1937 opinion gives them as 1929 and 1930.
