Started in the 90s.
Well if you get to live like few can only dream of for 20 or more years, it may be worth some years behind bars in a Fed pen.
If it’s more than 10, then it wasn’t worth it.
I used to ask this ethics question to juxtapose against a four year college education:
If you could steal 10 million dollars, get caught, spend four years in a country club prison, and then get out and get to keep the money, would you do it?