On October 18 1931 Capone was convicted after trial and on November 24 was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison fined $50,000 and charged $7,692 for court costs, in addition to $215,000 plus interest due on back taxes. The six-month contempt of court sentence was to be served concurrently.
He suffered from paresis derived from syphilis he had deteriorated greatly during his jail time. Immediately on release he entered a Baltimore hospital for brain treatment and then went on to his Florida home an estate on Palm Island in Biscayne Bay near Miami which he had purchased in 1928.