Convicted Criminal. He was a Chicago Prohibition-era bootlegger, who was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. After joining a high school gang, he was found guilty of trying to rob a warehouse, taking part in a horse-stealing ring, taking part in a robbery involving the death of a police officer, and robbing a freight car. The way he got his nickname is disputed. It is believed it comes for his imaginative but impractical plans for robbing banks and kidnapping millionaires in Chicago during the 1920s or from those who thought he was nuts or "buggy". He is most known for trying to murder organized crime figure Al Capone, who was his rival. After three years of bloody warfare with Capone's men, Capone's men machine-gunned seven members of Moran's gang on Clark Street in Chicago on Valentine's Day in 1929, which was known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. He became very rich with his criminal activities. He is also credited with "innovating" the act of driving by a rival's hangout and spraying it with gunfire, a legacy which lasts to this day. After serving a five-year sentence and ten years of a twenty-year sentence for robbery, Moran died of lung cancer 45 days after entering Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1957 on a ten-year bank robbery sentence.
Convicted Criminal. He was a Chicago Prohibition-era bootlegger, who was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. After joining a high school gang, he was found guilty of trying to rob a warehouse, taking part in a horse-stealing ring, taking part in a robbery involving the death of a police officer, and robbing a freight car. The way he got his nickname is disputed. It is believed it comes for his imaginative but impractical plans for robbing banks and kidnapping millionaires in Chicago during the 1920s or from those who thought he was nuts or "buggy". He is most known for trying to murder organized crime figure Al Capone, who was his rival. After three years of bloody warfare with Capone's men, Capone's men machine-gunned seven members of Moran's gang on Clark Street in Chicago on Valentine's Day in 1929, which was known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. He became very rich with his criminal activities. He is also credited with "innovating" the act of driving by a rival's hangout and spraying it with gunfire, a legacy which lasts to this day. After serving a five-year sentence and ten years of a twenty-year sentence for robbery, Moran died of lung cancer 45 days after entering Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1957 on a ten-year bank robbery sentence.
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