Big Crimes Small Convictions

Big Crimes Small Convictions

Think of how small the odds are of influential people going to jail for any heinous crimes they commit. If a crime has caught the public’s attention, possibly a low-level person connected to the offense does some time, but the big players almost always go on with their lives as if nothing happened.

Last week, Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking more than two years after her partner in crime, Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.