Would you trade years in prison and being a felon for a few million buck? Genuine question.
Downside: among the usual US-specific stuff, as a felon it's much harder to receive most countries' permanent visas. It's a case by case and you will get unlucky. There's often a 'character requirement' which is very loosely defined.
It rules out the five eyes countries but there's little reason for a US already rich person to emigrate to another similar anglo country.
For instance, I have read court cases of felons who illegally entered Argentina and were later granted Argentine citizenship. And Cambodia sells citizenship that expressly brags basically the king will look at it and decide if you are a douche, no criminal reports iirc.
2 million is about 10 years of salary. maybe double if you include the time value of money.
Would you spend 2 years in jail now to live 20 years longer? Have 2 more children? to retire 30 years earlier?
2 years in a supermax or in one of the super violent federal prisons... probably not.
(unless they already attempted to escape from the minimum security / camp, or some weird corner cases like that)
I wouldn't, but millions of people would.
At 30,40+ already locked into a narrowly defined routine of toddlers screaming at you 24/7 because of some variation of you selected the wrong color cup, and your bank account and energy constantly being drained to zero by thankless familial responsibilities I can see how someone might find it attractive to spend a few years reading in a cell and working out with the cartel bros and some payload of cash waiting to satisfy any remaining child support.