Indictment in Case Number 23232 (June 1931)
The twenty-two-count income-tax indictment returned against Alphonse Capone on 5 June 1931. He was convicted on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18.
- Date
- 1931-06-05
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 55311014
- Docket
- No. 23232, U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill., Eastern Division
- Rights
- A record of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 21. 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 twenty-two-count grand jury indictment of the June Term 1931, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, against Alphonse Capone and the aliases listed in the caption. The opening page recites that the grand jury began the investigation in the April Term 1931 and continued it through the May and June Terms. The catalog holds it as 66 page images and a PDF.
The Seventh Circuit’s 1932 opinion explains the structure: counts 13 and 18 charged misdemeanors, failing to file returns for 1928 and 1929, and the other counts charged felonies, attempts to evade the tax for 1925 through 1929. The court reprints count 1, which charges that Capone did “willfully attempt to evade and defeat an income tax in the sum of, to wit, $55,365.25” for the calendar year 1925.
The jury found him guilty on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18 and not guilty on the rest. The judgment of 24 October 1931 sentences him on those five counts.
