Excellent point.
Actually some people can swindle billions and only go to jail for a few years. Take Andy Fastow, the CFO who was the mastermind of the Enron house of cards. He even named his fake companies after family members. His wife got one year and he got what, seven? He’s serving his sentence in a mental health facility, not a prison. It pays to marry someone whose family has a lot of ‘connections’ to judges.