It's amazing how they took calculated risk and ended up with net gains and avoided any criminal charges. Do you need a really high IQ to think way? Is one pers

It's amazing how they took calculated risk and ended up with net gains and avoided any criminal charges. Do you need a really high IQ to think way? Is one person able to make such strategy or do you need a group of high IQ people to pull off something like this? Are there lots of people they know in power?