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FBI agents arrest George “Bugsö Moran, along with fellow crooks Virgil Summers
and Albert Fouts, in Kentucky. Once one of the biggest organized crime figures
in America, Moran had been reduced to small bank robberies by this time. He
died in prison 11 years later.
Bugs Moran’s criminal career took an abrupt downturn after the infamous St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in which his top gunmen were slaughtered by
rival Al Capone’s henchmen. (A lasting feud had been established after
Capone’s men killed Moran’s friend and mentor, Deanie O’Banion, in 1924.)
Moran, who just missed the massacre by a couple of minutes, was visibly shaken
when reporters talked to him days later. He shouted at them, “Only Capone
kills like that!ö
Al “Scarfaceö Capone established his alibi by vacationing in Florida at the
time of the Valentine’s Day murders. Sitting poolside, he mocked Moran,
chuckling as he told reporters, “The only man who kills like that is Bugs
Moran.ö Later, while Capone was serving time for tax evasion, Moran may have
earned a measure of revenge by killing Jack McGurn, one of the men who had
carried out the massacre.
A bank robbery charge conviction eventually landed Moran in Leavenworth
federal prison. Hewas releasedin 1956, but was then re-arrested for an
earlier bank robbery. He died in prison of lung cancer on February 2, 1957.
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