Oh dang. Drug dealer gets 5.5 years in prison for selling fentanyl. Not even close to what a darknet market drug dealer gets for selling a fraction of that.https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/insys-founder-kapoor-hit-66-month-sentence-for-role-subsys-kickback-scheme …
I think it is two-fold. Billionaires can afford much better lawyers, and there is a bias in favour of male executives, who are members of the most privileged class. Privilege is deeply embedded in the system.