Sympathy?

CrimLaw notes an article discussing the recent severity of white collar criminal offenses.

I am not sympathetic to the plight of white collar criminal offenders. For years they have lobbied the state court systems to ensure that petty thieves would suffer severe punishment. For example, in California a person commits felony (grand) theft if he steals an object worth $400 or more. Almost EVERYTHING in California costs $400 or more. But these stiff penalities were lobbied for by the wealthy to protect the wealthy.

Now the wealthy are on the receiving end of overly harsh penalities. It sucks, huh?