Al Capone was not without competition in the underworld of the United States.  Many of them, albeit not as well known, were just as rich.

Frankie Uale:  A partner in the notorious 5 Points Gang of New York, he apprenticed Capone.  He eventually became Capone’s ally and was later killed by Capone on the pretext of stealing Capone’s shipments of booze.

George Remus:  Born in Germany in 1876, George Remus would become one of Prohibition's best known crime figures, along with the likes of Al Capone.  When he was five, his family moved to Chicago and within 20 years, he was one of the cities most successful lawyers. But practicing law did not suit George, and as soon as prohibition came into effect, he was one of the main suppliers of alcohol in Chicago and Cincinnati.  He did this by buying an abandoned distillery and finding loopholes in the Volstead Act that allowed him to sell his liquor to himself for “medicinal purposes”, where most of the “medicine” wound up on Chicago’s raging liquor black market.  George would ambush his own trucks on the trip from the distillery to their destination, sending them to Death Valley Farm, the place where he stored all the illicit liquor he made. The liquor would then be sold on the black market.  After three years, he had accumulated $40,000,000 and had bribed hundreds of government officials, including a $500,000 bribe to the district attorney.

Remus was convicted on bootlegging charges and was sentenced to $10,000 and 2 years in the Atlanta State Penitentiary.  While in jail, his wife, whom he had given the power of attorney, stripped him of almost $2,000,000 and started dating the special agent who brought his downfall, Franklin R. Dodge.

As soon as Remus was released, he headed for his wife, and found her in Cincinnati.  On October 6th, 1927, he shot and killed his wife in Eden Park, Cincinnati.   He then promptly turned himself in and pleaded insanity in the following lawsuit so he could not receive the death penalty.  He was given a 6 month sentence to Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and lived the rest of his life in leisure.

Johnny Torrio:  Capone’s original partner, he employed Capone when Capone first moved to Chicago.  He soon got out of the underworld after the death of his mentor, “Big Jim” Colosimo.

“Big Jim” Colosimo:  Owner of the most popular nightclub in Chicago, the Colosimo Club, he was brutally gunned down by Frankie Uale in his own nightclub.