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How to Be Notorious: Gangsters’ Most Dastardly Deeds

The Daily Beast

Updated Jul. 12, 2017 6:37PM ET / Published Oct. 03, 2014 12:00AM ET 

Gangsters are distinguished from common street thugs not by the number of offenses they commit, but by the audacity of their crimes. If it’s bold or original enough, it takes just one nefarious scheme to elevate a villain from delinquent to cultural icon. From Al Capone to Whitey Bulger, this is a roundup of history’s most notorious gangsters and the deeds that earned them that dubious distinction.

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