Do Kwan and Sam Bankman-Fried also tried evading arrest by not being in the US. Didn't work so well.
Worked for Snowden.
Not in the way he would have liked. He leaked information on compromised Chinese systems to China, hoping to gain asylum in the then relatively free Hong Kong, but China told him to take a hike. He then got on a Russian airline to try to get to Ecuador, but Russia detained him on pretense of invalid travel documents, which China didn't care a whit about. "Lucky" for Snowden that he didn't reach Ecuador, as Moreno would have given him up like he did Assange.
He realized just in the nick of time that the list of countries that will not cooperate with the US is quite small.