A must read. Matt Taibbi's current article in The Rolling Stone, How Wall St's Crooks Evaded Jail.
Like he says towards the end of the article, steal billions (cumulatively, trillions) and you don't even have to say you're sorry and your company pays your tiny fine, but when a mother uses a wrong address so she can send her kids to a better school, she has to be made an example of.