Does Crime Pay?

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Feb 25, 2026 · 3m

In California, a con man who stole $9 million through a Ponzi scheme served only three years of a nine-year sentence, essentially paying a year for every $3 million stolen, while his victims lost everything their savings and homes. His incarceration at Boron was described as a “country club” with tennis courts, swimming pools, and dorm-style housing, showing that prisons often fail as a deterrent. Biblical justice, by contrast, emphasizes restitution, requiring the criminal to compensate victims and, if unable, to serve until the debt is paid, with capital punishment for capital crimes…