Being extraordinarily connected did not help Madoff much: he was sentenced to 150 years in prison and died there last year.
Once Epstein and his crimes were splashed all over the news he was looking at a much worse outcome.
Let's look at one particular example, the stop the steal scam. Thousands of people were tricked in to donating to the ringleaders of an impossible political cause based on false claims, and none of them are going to jail for that in particular. You could find dozens of similar examples just by keeping an eye on the news, but nobody thinks about it because a certain type of con with victims that professionals can't empathize with has become normalized.