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On October 19, 1931, Al Capone is convicted of Tax evasion.

October 19th, 1931, Chicago gangland [-----1-----] Al Capone, [-----2-----] "Scarface," is [-----3-----] by Federal prosecutors. Famous for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and other gang war bloodbaths, Capone has managed to slip free of such charges in court. Upon moving from Brooklyn in 1920, he rose from a two-bit bootlegger to the [-----4-----] warlord of Chicago gangsters. But a federal judge finally sentenced him to 11 years for, [-----5-----], tax evasion. Long after his death, IRS agents were still after Capone, when a large vault was discovered beneath his former headquarters. Nothing was found but an empty liquor bottle, at this time, Scarface owing $800,000 in back taxes, escaped the Tax Man.
chieftain alias nailed undisputed of all things
1931年10月19日,聯(lián)邦檢察官盯上了,芝加哥黑社會的首領Al Capone,又名“疤面人”。以情人節(jié)打屠殺和其他幫派的大屠殺所聞名,Capone在法庭上試圖逃避一些指控。在1920年時。即將從布魯克林移動,他從一個貧賤的走私販到芝加哥匪徒們無可置辯的的督軍。但是一位聯(lián)邦法官最終判決他11年的監(jiān)禁,尤其是逃稅的罪行。他死后很久,在過去的指揮部下面發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個非常大的地下室,美國國稅局執(zhí)法官們都很平靜。什么都沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)除了一個空酒瓶,在那個時期,疤面人擁有$800,000見不得光的稅,逃脫了稅務官的檢查。 ——譯文來自: dongxue915