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rossrants:

STORY NUMBER ONE

Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.

Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He…

Via snopes, the broad outline of these stories are true, if embellished, but Easy Eddie didn’t have an attack of conscience.

  1. cutlerish said: document.onselectstart=null
  2. tj reblogged this from tiffanyb and added:
    I was at lunch when I read the original, so I didn’t Snopes-ify™ it, but I’m glad Tiffany did. That’s a fairly...
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    According to Wickipedia, they were, indeed, father and son. Again, wow.
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  10. unbindingme said: Holy shit… Excellent.
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