> Do you know how much Martha Stewart went to prison over? $45,763 That's just one example, and probably not a representative one, being a high-profile case. S

> Do you know how much Martha Stewart went to prison over? $45,763 That's just one example, and probably not a representative one, being a high-profile case. Sometimes they are made examples of. > Risk v. reward skews heavily towards risk. ... I just don't see any evidence pointing to the prosecution of it being lax. I don't see much evidence either way except for the SEC's billions in fines which someone cited above, which necessarily mean that it's happening in large volumes.