This was Al Capone. Prohibition era liquor seller. Mafia style gangster with henchmen and turf warfare that made everyone seek to put him in jail and stop the madness. But the local state or federal agencies couldn't nail him with anything because 1) They were buyers, sellers, and consumers of alcohol. Sugar cane plantation owners? 2) His gang of followers was intimidating. So they chose the next best thing for surface appearances of decorum and "rule of law". Which was to charge him with 'tax evasion'

Its just funny how Trump, and the Bidens, Bush's, other ruling party oligarchs also profit from illegal trades, rackets, scandals, boondoggles, insider dealings, wars, etc. And they can't ever hold each other accountable because they are all complicit, would incriminate themselves. Curious.