George H. Meyer was in jail for a small job that he and another partner did. When he was in there, he saw that people from the mob were going to jail and getting out within a day. So after about a week in jail a man named Frank Milano came and said, "Hey boy, you ever heard of Frank Nitti or Al Capone,"

George said, "yeah, why?"

Frank said, "They need a driver, and I heard you have some real good skills," George said, "Yeah" without thinking. Within a day he was a wheel man for Frank Nitti and Al Capone.

During this time the Jones Law (Prohibition Amendment of 1929) had just been passed, so he was running a lot of moonshine and getting paid $500 a week. (Al Capone) George was German, so he could go into another gang’s territory and remain unnoticed, but one time a rival gang said, "Hey that’s Capone’s boy," and George got shot in the stomach. He was rushed to St. Anne’s hospital. He had been sitting in the waiting room bleeding severely when a man said, ‘what’s the kid doing waiting? He’s going to die." George found out the man was a doctor from Minnesota had saved his life. (Meyer pages 16-19)

After getting out of the hospital, Capone sent George to Miami, Florida for six weeks so that things could cool off. When George got back, he wanted to do a better job and get more money. The job he wanted was running a night club, and Frank Nitti said, "Hey boy you know what? There is a job open of that sort, and you can have it." Months passed and George still did not have the job promised to him and that really made him mad. He had to take action, but it would take planning. (The American Mafia Al Capone)

George’s next action was to rob Capone. He did this with an old friend named Anderson. They went to one of Capone’s drop spots and took $180,000. Anderson went his own way and remained unfound by Capone’s mob, so they didn’t have a bounty on him. George fled to New York with a contract on his life. He went to an old friend and said he needed a place to stay. The old man said, "I have a whorehouse for you to stay in, but you have to go to Pittsburg." After some time staying in Pittsburg George went out to New York and he met one of Capone’s old friends, Owney Madden. (Al Capone)

George and Madden started talking and he moved George out to New York with a job offer. George chose to move with Madden and started working at a night club. After about a week George told Madden that he had robbed Capone out of $180,000. George told Madden this because he didn’t want to keep anything away, and George thought that Madden could get the contract off of his life. When George mentioned this Madden said, "That bustard deserved it he has enough money as it is." In the mean time Madden told George to lay low. About a week later Madden talked to Capone and got the Contract off of George’s life. Everything was going good, but things got better when Madden offered George a spot at running a night club making a whole lot more money. George was living the high life for eleven months until someone got killed. After this incident George had to shut down the club. When this happened George was still hungry for money so he had to get it another way.

To feed his hunger for money George resorted to robbing banks. To do this he had to assemble a team of the best. He knew of two people named Tom and Herb he wanted, but they were locked away in a New Jersey state prison. He didn’t really trust anyone else so he had to get these guys out. He had them escaped from prison, and he met them somewhere out of town with a change of clothes and a car. To get away with these crimes they needed an inside man. Lucky for them Tom had a contact before he got busted, but he never used it. This contact was a man that worked for a Federal Bank Examiner but he was now retired. All the man wanted for his part was ten percent of the take George made. This informant told the men everything from where the alarm buttons are to what stacks of cash not to take. On George’s first job the men got $130,000 and the police remained in the dust. After a while George felt that he had to lay low and he didn’t feel safe in the states. Since he didn’t feel safe, he talked to Madden, and Madden said, " I have a friend that lives in South America and I will contact him if you want." So George went off to South America, and he left his partners behind in the States. (Meyer pages 38-50)

Before George went to South America, he sent $70,000 to Madden’s friend and he took $12,000 in a suitcase. When George made it to South America, he got a hotel room and put all of his money in there. One day George and his South American friend were driving around and saw a building for sale for $40,000, and they split the cost in half. The men turned the building into a night club and everything was going good for about ten months. One day three men walked in the club and said, " You George Meyer"

George said, " Yeah why?"

The men said, " Cuz we’re F.B.I boy" and took George away.

The men took him on an illegal flight to Venezuela then back to the States a couple weeks later. When George returned to the States, the F.B.I tried to find a witness to put George away. Finally they found a witness in Pittsburg and put George away for 10 years.

While George was away, he said, " This is the most dehumanizing place ever." To get out of prison George tried to escape twice. The second plan was almost fool proof. George and Willie Sutton tried to escape from the sewage pipes, but the guards found out, and they locked every manhole they could come out of. After that the guards put water hoses in the manhole to flood and kill the two men. The plan failed to kill them, and both George and Willie went to the hole or solitary confinement. (Meyer pages 61-75)

After serving his sentence, George got out and tried to get a job. As he found out, not having an education made things hard to do the legal way. He finally found a job at a stock yard loading stuff for the war. He held this job for two years. After some time George slipped back to his old habits and hit another bank in New York. Since this was his second offence, he was sent away for 30 to 60 years. During this time George did time in some of America’s hardest prisons including Alcatraz. When George was sent to Attica, a prison in New York, George was required to take an IQ test and got a very high score. Since his score was so high, the Warden asked him to take some college courses and George did so. Nothing much happened for a lot of time. About 18 years later George was outside when a young man said, "Are you George Meyer?"

George said, "Yeah, why do you want to know?"

The young man said, "Because my uncle is the one that kidnapped you."

After the young man said this George asked the young man if he could have his uncle come and talk to him. The young man nodded. About a week later Tom came in and saw George and he asked Tom one thing.

George asked, "Hey Tom can you sign a document saying that I was kidnapped and you guys took me to Venezuela?"

Tom said, "Yeah, I can do that for you son."

About a month later George went to court to get resentenced. Aaron Shapiro, the prosecuting attorney during George’s trial, was now the judge, and he wanted to disqualify himself because he was the prosecutor that sent him away. The result was that George was resentenced to time served and one day. He did this so all George had to do was go back to Attica for one day and walk out a free man, no parole. The next day George was released from prison and contacted his family, not the mob, his actual family. His half brother was a contractor, but he also owned a Texaco station that he gave George. George ran that for some time, then he met a woman named Ellen and married her. Ellen had a station in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and that one was doing better than George’s, so he moved to Texas. After working for sometime they took a vacation to Arkansas and George found a job as Hotel Management, so he took that, and he met another fine younger woman and had an affair. This woman’s husband found out and told Ellen. When Ellen found out she went back to her family. About a week later George contacted her and apologized, then he took a trip to Chicago. When he went there, he was looking for easy money, so he played in a poker round and didn’t get $13,000 that he was owed. The man that owed him money was a hotel owner and he was hiding form George. Finally the man decided to give George the money, and George was on his way to Texas. About ten mile out of town two cars started shooting at him, and his car finally ran out of gas. The two men were F.B.I agents, and they took George to prison for Federal Extortion through mail. George went to prison for the last time in Leavenworth, Kansas for a total of six years.