Let’s say you run a successful Ponzi scheme. You get ten thousand investors to fall for your fraud, and lead them to believe wholeheartedly that their money is

Let’s say you run a successful Ponzi scheme. You get ten thousand investors to fall for your fraud, and lead them to believe wholeheartedly that their money is safely invested in your scheme. When it collapses, the financial turmoil is so great it causes 0.1% of your “investors” commit suicide. In this case your fraud clearly had a strong influence on 10 people ending their lives. It seems to me in this case there is some argument for imprisonment in this case, as you would definitely go to prison for causing 10 people to die in other circumstances.