Al Caopne's Wisconsin hideout sold for 2.6M dollars.Byline: ANI London, Oct 9 (ANI): Chicago mobster Al Capone's former hideout in northern Wisconsin, US, has been auctioned off for 2.3 million dollars. Margie Schull of the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department said the property was bought by the Chippewa Valley The Chippewa Valley was first inhabited by the Ojibwe Indians and settled by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The region also has a large Hmong community. While the term "Chippewa Valley" technically refers to the drainage basin of the Chippewa River and its tributaries, the Bank, which was the sole bidder at the at the auction, held on the steps of the county courthouse on Thursday, reports the Daily Express. The sprawling 407-acre estate consists of Capone's stone house and watch towers. Capone, nicknamed "Scarface", led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain and bootlegging bootlegging, in the United States, the illegal distribution or production of liquor and other highly taxed goods. First practiced when liquor taxes were high, bootlegging was instrumental in defeating early attempts to regulate the liquor business by taxation. of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s, when consumption was alcohol was banned in the country. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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