Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts. That's generally how the rich avoid paying taxes as well.

We have due process for the privileged. Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial that they have due process.

> Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts

Yet this reporter was able to assemble the trail from court documents.

For every person creating Byzantine structures there are several adept at untangling them.

> Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial

Not arguing that they aren’t getting an advantage. Just that there is zero evidence so far that they’re going to get away with it.

Also, New York has abolished cash bail. If someone is in pre-trial detention, it’s because they were deemed to be a flight risk. Not because they couldn’t afford bail. (EDIT: Never mind, we rolled back most of the changes in April after a purported crime surge)

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It's hard to make a case for something being prosecuted in good faith if there is never any attempt at using the tools that are otherwise so vastly abused in prosecuting the most meaningless "crimes".

Very good point. People suspected of far less serious crimes based on far more tenuous “evidence” get their door kicked in, their kids rooms flashbanged, dogs shot, etc.

New York has not eliminated cash bail.

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+cash+bail

Ok so maybe improve the laws instead of burning down the entire legal system? I mean even if you want to burn down the entire legal system you are never going to get that without a very bloody revolution.

Both of those predate the abolition of slavery