If SBF had been POTUS by November '22, he likely wouldn't be sitting in a cell today.
Not because innocence suddenly appears with office, but because power rewrites the rules of accountability. At that level, consequences slow down, blur out, or vanish behind immunity doctrines, executive privilege, prosecutorial hesitation, and political cost-benefit math.
Law doesn't disappear, but enforcement becomes optional. The higher you climb, the less the system asks what you did, and the more it asks what it would cost to touch you.
That's the real hierarchy: Retail gets punished, mid-level players g