Best teacher I had in high school taught economics. First day of class his lesson was "If you're going to become a criminal follow these 10 rules".
I can't remember all the rules but the two I do:
1. Don't do anything for less than $1M. Risk isn't worth the reward.
2. Don't use a weapon. It adds years to your sentence.
It was mostly about how white-collar crime has a much safer risk/reward ratio.
How you commit crime is make it complicated enough that a prosecutor will think twice about their ability to teach a jury about how what you did worked and that any of the steps were even wrong in the first place. This is why so much financial crime goes unpunished.
I can't remember all the rules but the two I do: 1. Don't do anything for less than $1M. Risk isn't worth the reward. 2. Don't use a weapon. It adds years to your sentence.
It was mostly about how white-collar crime has a much safer risk/reward ratio.