The salad oil scandal, also referred to as the soybean scandal, was an American major corporate scandal in 1963 that caused over $180 million ($1.89billion today) in losses to corporations including American Express, Bank of America and Bank Leumi, as well as many international trading companies.
Seven years seems light in comparison to other crimes. Unclear if he got to keep his wealth, too.
White Collar Crime -> Couple years in country club federal camp
Poor People Crime -> 20 to life in a zoo cage
A lawyer once said something to the effect of, “If the legislators can envision themselves or their family doing it, it gets a light sentence. If they can’t, it gets a harsh sentence.”
I believe it was in Laws that Plato said that laws don’t represent right & wrong but what those with the power to make laws want to be right & wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_(dialogue)