I've known guys getting indicted on relatively minor drug offenses and after they got out they had to pay more money to the state than they earned from their pastime drug activity. It's a honest to goodness shakedown. You do the crime you do the time, I agree, but the ways of LE at times are extortionate. There's no other word for it.

And I'm over here in a flaccid Westen European country so I can't imagine how much worse they must be in the States.