I am also non US but I suspect it is because the more money and influence you have the justice system will bend over backwards to make sure the no innocent person is put in prison. For the rest of the people they can rot in hell for no reason sometimes… In Europe they don’t really imprison the really corrupt but at least you don’t see them anymore…

But this just reinforces that old saying that when a moron dumps a big rock in a lake it takes many months and years to take it out and it will not be the same anyway.