When high-status individuals get away with well-documented crimes with zero or minimal consequences while low-status individuals are taken to the cleaners by ze

When high-status individuals get away with well-documented crimes with zero or minimal consequences while low-status individuals are taken to the cleaners by zealous prosecutors eager to pump their conviction rates, the public learns that all men are not equal before the law and that corruption is acceptable to the people that matter. This is well-understood and I’m not breaking any new ground here by saying so. What I am saying that is perhaps offensive or provocative is that this happens in the USA.