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Al Capone stars in this unusual story based on the fact that he himself may have been responsible for adding expiry dates to milk bottles. A plot that would begin in the 1920s, when Scarface was in charge of the biggest mafia in Chicago known as ‘Chicago Outfit’.
This phase of criminal management, which lasted until the 1930s, would be framed in the context of the Prohibition era, when the mafias competed to control the illegal distribution of alcohol. A stellar moment for the American gangster in which he earned some 100 million dollars from smuggling alone.
Dairy industry
Al Capone then became one of the most powerful and feared mob leaders in the world who controlled much of the bottling facilities throughout the mythical legislature enforced in the USA.
When Prohibition expired, Capone began to look for another source of income with which to escape somehow from the arduous life of the mobster. He thought of selling milk as a viable business in which milk was sold at a much higher price than alcohol and could be consumed by the whole of society. In 1930, the Capone family thus gained a large stake in the dairy industry.
Legend has it that one of Capone’s relatives became seriously ill after drinking bad milk, which made him very angry and led him to, surprisingly, regulate a law, which he imposed on the Chicago City Council: the obligation for milk producers to add expiry dates to the bottles.
The apparent reality behind all this is that Al Capone was merely trying to find an escape route or outlet with which to continue to feed his unbridled ambition by diversifying his business. However, like all myths and legends, it is not known to what extent this story is true, or whether it is just a popular invention passed down from generation to generation.
