Originally Posted By: Turnbull
There is no way Capone could have regained the reins of the Outfit if he had been healthy. Warm feelings for Good Old Al, and fond memories, took a back seat to ambition and greed. While Capone was away for ll years, Prohibition was repealed, and the Outfit branched out into new businesses. Ralph Capone, his brother's only blood ally in the Outfit, was always a second-rater compared with Ricca, Nitti, Guzik and Humphreys.


Everyone you named was an ally of Capone. He would have been let back into the fold. He made all of those guys very wealthy.


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