The people who get caught are, on average, able to hide enough of the money from the authorities through various means that they have some money to come home to

The people who get caught are, on average, able to hide enough of the money from the authorities through various means that they have some money to come home to, if you will. This means some people exit jail penniless and some exit jail with hundreds of millions. Perhaps the authors of the paper should have presented the median rather than the average; however as a typical college student I was more focused on delivering the assignment than criticizing the researchers.