Capone and successors controlled gambling in Chicago for decades chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The story of career criminal Victor Lustig, originally from what is now the Czech Republic, is told in The Man Who Conned the World by British biographer Christopher Sandford.