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3. Federal prosecutors are resource-constrained and don't like to lose, so they only prosecute the surest cases.

Imagine you offer a great soccer player a million dollars if he can shoot 50 goals in a row, and he gets to choose the defenders and goalies. He's probably going to choose children to go against him.

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Well in this context it would be the poor, and people that lack education. People that lack the resources to fight back.

still not something we should be proud of

Or, look at the Sam Bankman-Fried prosecution. The DoJ could've gone after a lot more people, but chose to use them as assets to get SBF, the kingpin. The beneficiaries here are the mid-tier criminals.

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