For the filthy rich, the ONLY penalty is very often a fine, and it’s a very small one proportionate to the profit they made from the crime. It’s the cost of doing business.
The filthy rich only do jail time if they bilked other filthy rich people out of their money.
Rich people are far less likely to do time, because “the companies I own are responsible for other people’s livelihoods, you’d be punishing them as well” is generally accepted by most courts of law as a valid reason not to jail them. If they were less short-sighted they’d be treating the fact that the person had power and responsibilities as an aggravating circumstance and giving them longer sentences…
For the filthy rich, the ONLY penalty is very often a fine, and it’s a very small one proportionate to the profit they made from the crime. It’s the cost of doing business.
The filthy rich only do jail time if they bilked other filthy rich people out of their money.
Rich people are far less likely to do time, because “the companies I own are responsible for other people’s livelihoods, you’d be punishing them as well” is generally accepted by most courts of law as a valid reason not to jail them. If they were less short-sighted they’d be treating the fact that the person had power and responsibilities as an aggravating circumstance and giving them longer sentences…