The Outfit guys would LAUGH at some of the old estimates made by people, especially the one about Al Capone. The estimate made it sound like Al Capone personally put $100 million Dollars in his pocket and of course his family would probably eventually inherit most of it. Double LOL,LOL.
John Kobler, Capone's best biographer, estimates that
the Outfit took in all that money in 1927-28. But, not much stuck to Capone. For one thing, he had to pay out most of it in bribes to politicians, judges and cops. He had an army of lawyers that sucked in another big part of the Outfit's cash, and nearly all of them were incompetent and greedy. Plus, Capone was a degenerate gambler. He died nearly broke, sustained by his brother Ralph.
