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* Bankrupting an opponent in legal fees is also a good tactic in civil cases, especially ones which go through multiple levels of appeal or where a huge corporation is suing a private individual.
* The Teapot Dome scandal is remarkable in that one man was convicted of bribing the US Secretary of the Interior, while in a separate trial the Secretary of the Interior was acquitted on charges of receiving bribes.
** The pattern of underlings going to gaol while the kingpin walks scot-free is nothing new in US politics. Many of Nixon's underlings went to prison, while Nixon himself was pardoned (controversially) by his successor Gerald Ford. Many Trump underlings are also facing trial or in prison, while (as of 2019) the Powers That Be are not willing to indict a sitting president – turning this into a race against the clock as to whether he is out of office before the statute of limitations (which is as short as five years on some crimes) runs out.
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