Capone was a New York-born mobster who thrived on illegal activity on the streets of Chicago and essentially owned the city's criminal underworld. On an annual basis, he was said to earn around $100 million a year from his profitable casinos and speakeasies. Al Capone's typical appearance fit perfectly with that of the time: he dressed elegantly and drank expensive Templeton Rye Whisky. It is a symbol of the era itself. He ruled an empire of crime in his city: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, robberies, "protection" rackets, and murder. And it seemed that law enforcement couldn't touch him. The FBI was eager to get involved in putting a stop to Capone's antics, but they needed him to have committed a federal crime and have evidence to support the charges. During this period, the bureau had no jurisdiction over any violations of the ban. Describing him: "I'm just a businessman, giving the public what they want." However this "businessman" ordered a massacre in 1929, killing seven rivals with a brutal machine gun on Valentine's Day. Even when the FBI learned that it was most likely Al Capone's massacre, it had no right to get involved. The killing of those seven men has not yet been recognized as a federal crime. In 1929, the FBI finally got a chance to get involved in the Capone case. When Scarface was called to appear as a witness before a federal grand jury in Chicago for a case involving a violation of prohibition laws. When he said he could not stand trial and gave the bogus excuse that he had had bronchopneumonia for six weeks which made him unable to travel. The FBI became involved when US prosecutors asked him to find out the truth. During their investigation, they went to Florida only to discover a supposedly bedridden Al Capone