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by rufus_foreman 638 days ago
>> please show me even one instance of a billionaire being successfully jailed for a criminal offense in the entire history of the USA

Jouaquin Guzman Loera (El Chapo) - $1 billion - drug trafficking - convicted in 2019, serving life sentence

Raj Rajaratnam - $1.3 billion - securities fraud and conspiracy - served 7 years of an 11 year sentence

Bernard John Ebbers - $1.4 billion - fraud and conspiracy - served 12 years of a 25 year sentence

David Ng Lap Seng - $1.8 billion - bribery - served almost 3 years of a 4 year sentence

John Kapoor - $2 billion - racketeering and wire fraud - served 2 years of a 5 and a half year sentence

Allen Stanford - $2.2 billion - Ponzi scheme - convicted in 2012, serving 110 year sentence

Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas - $2.7 billion - kidnapping, drug trafficking, and murder - served 33 years of a 55 year sentence

Alfred Taubman - $3.1 billion - antitrust violations - served a 10 month sentence

Rishi Shah - $3.6 billion - mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering - recently given 7 and a half year sentence

Michael Milken - $3.7 billion - securities and tax violations - served 22 months of a 2 year sentence, later pardoned by President Trump

S. Curtis Johnson - $4 billion - fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct - served 3 months of a 4 month sentence

Viktor Bout - $6 billion - conspiring to sell weapons to a U.S. designated foreign terrorist group - 10 years of a 25 year sentence, released in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for a WNBA basketball player