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by elfexec 2343 days ago
Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the masses. The Sackler's are cash multibillionaires ( not stock billionaires ) and they have strong politicals connections in the NY area, etc.

This case reminds me in some way of the Abacus trial. The only financial institution to be tried for the financial crisis was a small local bank founded by a "Sung".

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/22/abacus-only-bank-char...

You could watch a documentary about the case.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/abacus/

The Kapoor case, like the Sung case, is really a show trial.