The salad oil scandal, also referred to as the soybean scandal, was an American major corporate scandal in 1963 that caused over $180 million ($1.89billion today) in losses to corporations including American Express, Bank of America and Bank Leumi, as well as many international trading companies.
White Collar Crime -> Couple years in country club federal camp
Poor People Crime -> 20 to life in a zoo cage
A lawyer once said something to the effect of, “If the legislators can envision themselves or their family doing it, it gets a light sentence. If they can’t, it gets a harsh sentence.”
I believe it was in Laws that Plato said that laws don’t represent right & wrong but what those with the power to make laws want to be right & wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_(dialogue)