In the movie script turned fictional biography The Last testament of Lucky Luciano, it was claimed that Al Capone was sent away to jail on a BS gun rap to take the heat off the mob.
The dates add up.
The Saint Valentines Day massacre was February 14, 1929.
The fabled Atlantic City Conference where Lucky Luciano rallied allies across the country to rise up against the Mustaches was in May 1929, between the 13th and 16th of that month.
It was supposedly then that all of the bosses agreed that Al needed to go away to take heat off of them.
The St Valentine's Day hit two months earlier brought A LOT of heat.
Then, right on schedule, The Big Fella started his gun charge bid in May of 29.
I really honestly suspect he was sent away partly to appease some of the old Mustaches from Sicily.
Even Joe Bonanno expressed outrage in his own biography that someone like Al Capone would be acknowledged as a "Father". To Joe Bonanno, Cosa Nostra meant us Sicilians, not us Italians. In other words, a secret government by and for Sicilians based in South Italy in opposition to the mainland government.
"For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."
