You don't go to prison when you are the 2nd biggest donor to the current president's campaign.
Mark Karpales didn't go to prison for Mt Gox, he spent some months in jail because they were afraid he might leave Japan + Japan isn't like the west he prpbably doesn't have connections there, then left and worked for different financial companies and then started another company assessing risk or something.
Alex Mashinsky (founder of Celcius) didn't go to prison either.
On the other hand, Do Kwon (Terra) is a fugitive and interpol is looking for him, and Satish Kumbhani (Bitconnect) got indicted but disappeared so the cops are looking for him.
So yeah you have to turn off your pattern recognition or else be called a bad name.