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Exceptions are unique; dozens of examples of the wealthy and powerful facing legal consequences you can search engine and find immediately are not exceptions.
It's easier for the wealthy and powerful to fight their cases, but after exhausting their appeals they're as criminally liable as anyone else.
Panama papers are about companies legally avoiding paying their fair share because of America's shitty tax laws, not about people convicted of crimes evading the sentences.
Epstein went to jail after being convicted.
There have been no trials yet or publicly available and importantly, legally actionable evidence to prosecute others who visited his island.
The Panama Papers are about tax fraud on a global scale going back to 1970s. Most of the people named weren't American. Out of the thousands named, 2 people served jail time.
Epstein and Maxwell went to jail. Epstein was murdered so he couldn't testify against any of the hundreds of child rapist he facilitated.
Madoff stole money from rich people, of course he why to jail lol.
Trump sexually assaulted multiple women, committed multiple counts of fraud, sold government secrets, and tried to overthrow the government and paid a fine.
I'm not saying rich people never face any consequence at all, I know there are examples out there. I'm saying that for every one that does face some sort of consequence there's a thousand that don't.
Right, they went to jail.
Epstein easily could have been murdered, but that's an unproven theory.
Trump is on the hook for fines larger than his presidential campaign fund so far that he has to pay himself, and he still has 91 criminal felony charges against him, as well as other cases and especially that of the fake electors plot looming.
You literally said "except if you are rich, then there are no consequences".
That's what I'm responding to
Now you're saying "I'm not saying rich people never face any consequence at all".
If you want to change your theory to "sometimes some people don't go to jail when david_eight thinks they should", sure, makes sense.