[tps_title]5. Al Capone ($100 million per year)[/tps_title]
Iconic gangster Al Capone was practically the Bill Gates of the criminal world in his heyday.
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Capone supplied America with a river of bootlegged alcohol in the 1920s and 1930s, and was frankly the real “untouchable” in Chicago.
His iron-fisted (although certainly not iron-chinned!) rule over his city netted him a substantial income. Although there are no exact figures, it is estimated that in 1929 his criminal activities brought in more than $100 million per year, over a billion dollars in today’s money. The cigar-chomping gangter even found the time to be a noted philanthropist and public figure.
All that before he was brought down on tax evasion charges and syphilis. What a way to go for Chicago’s Godfather.
