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Scarface News: Capone hideout sells for $3.6m (Straits Times)
WAUSAU (Wisconsin) - CHICAGO mobster Al Capone's old rural hideout, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch (45-centimetre)-thick walls, was sold for US$2.6 million (S$3.6 million) Thursday to the bank that foreclosed on it. Capone - nicknamed 'Scarface' - headed a massive bootlegging, gambling and prostitution operation during Prohibition and raked in tens of millions of ...