Your thought experiment has a core problem: what is or isn't crime is already a political discussion -- even before mentioning the perpetrators. The wealthy don

Your thought experiment has a core problem: what is or isn't crime is already a political discussion -- even before mentioning the perpetrators. The wealthy don't commit crimes; they dictate the laws. For your thought experiment, you would have to have an universal definition of what's legal. While that may be hard to come by, I have it on good authority that one of it's most strident claims is: "Retaining more wealth than 80% of citizens is a capital offense."