Bernard Ebbers, Marc Dreir, Samuel Cohen, Allen Stanford, Tom Petters, etc the list goes on. You can brush off Bernie likes it nothing but some people are essentially doing life sentences for white collar crimes.
"Some people", the majority of them aren't. There are rich, lesser known, heads of companies and banks who get essential slaps on the wrist for similar crimes. And they arent all highly publicized like those cases mentioned, they're mentioned like once or twice and then passed over.
Besides the argument is moreso that he was sentenced this way because of his name. It shouldn't be "some people". Everyone shoukd be sentenced the same according to there crime, youre cheating people out of life savings, credit, college funds, etc. Yet we see that this isn't the case. A guy is given a 30 year sentence because his name is Nicodemo Scarfo. Whereas its proven that someone convicted of the exact same crime, with a lesser known name is almost guaranteed a lighter sentence, in some country club prison program.
And looking at that list, only half of those listed got 20 years or more. And in all the cases they extorted between the 100-500 million mark. Scarfo &, Pellulo according to the indictment only got about 12 million. There's a clear discrepancy here.
