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I mean, they've lived in an era when being a white collar criminal is basically without legal penalty (as long as you're a white guy). It's really no wonder so many of them are so completely stupid, they would've had nothing to fear if their guy hadn't gotten himself elected.

Said another way, the underprosecution of white-collar crime provides an advantage to career criminals.

Go where the cops ain't.

There is a good reason for this. Real criminals don't aspire to be criminals... they just are, for whatever reason, necessity or lack of certain morals.

People who idolize criminals show an entirely different character defect, one that is in opposition to being productive in any task criminal or otherwise.

I don't even think mobsters tend to be that smart. The most vile humans, most willing to kill their competition first just naturally rise to the top.