Because you're trying to make the point that "you are what you are charged and convicted of" and Al Capone was charged and convicted of tax evasion.
> If the prosecution had enough evidence to charge Sheik Omar
> Abdel Rahman with murder, it would have charged him with that.
I don't think I'm enough of a rube to think that prosecutors, in high profile cases like this, go for the thing they think is right; they obviously go for the thing they can prove the easiest.
Thus the connection to Capone; in your words: if the prosecution had enough evidence to charge Al Capone with murder and racketeering, it would have charged him with that.
I know that a lot of times people on this list get kind of wild with their "isn't that like" claims, but I thought this one was a slam dunk.
/jordan