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I don't think it counts as getting away with it if you don't get to keep the money and you are stuck in prison.

She reaped the benefits from the money a for a good period of time. Not having the full sum of cash can't discredit the lifestyle and things she did during that time frame.

But then doesn't basically everyone who does anything 'get away with it'?

E.g. I kill my wife. I get executed 6 months later but I get to enjoy my wife being dead for 6 months.

This is the "time horizon" problem. There's more theory about this than you ever care to know in books about reinforcement learning.

A longer time horizon is better, but you'll need to learn that at a shorter horizon of course.

just hire the same image consultant who guided Martha Stewart from jailbird pariah to amusing D-list celebrity

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