Suppose, hypothetically speaking, that the leader of a large Western democracy was voted out of power, and then put on trial for corruption. But now suppose that while in office, said leader had managed to use his position to amass vast wealth, both for himself and for his very powerful friends.
So here is a question: How much wealth would he need to buy his way out of a guilty plea?
Ideally, there would be no such possibility. Yet we have already seen that in large Western democracies money talks. And if you are rich enough, your money practically shouts.
So I suspect there is some dollar figure that would do the trick. One with the magic power to spring open the locks of all jail doors.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.