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Bernie Ebbers and Jeff Skilling both got more than 20 years for Enron. The CEO and co-owner of NCFE got 30 years and 25 years respectively for their role in a securities and wire fraud relating to that business.
> In December 2019, Ebbers was released from Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, due to declining health, having served 13 years of his 25-year sentence, and he died just over a month later.[1]

...living until the age of 61 as one of the richest men in the world, then spending 13 years in minimum-security prison.

> In 2013, following a further appeal, and earlier accusations that prosecutors had concealed evidence from Skilling's lawyers prior to his trial, the United States Department of Justice reached a deal with Skilling, which resulted in ten years being cut from his sentence, reducing it to 14 years. He was moved to a halfway house in 2018 and released from custody in 2019, after serving 12 years. [2]

...living until the age of 53 as one of the richest men in the world, then spending 12 years in minimum-security prison.

Re: NCFE: Lance K. Poulsen went to jail at 65, and while I wasn't able to find out his current situation, he's about due to get out of jail if the other cases are any indication[3]. Rebecca S. Parrett, 60, fled after her conviction and was arrested at age 62 in Mexico, largely due to fleeing to a country with robust US extradition (why?)[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Ebbers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling

[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-national-century-finan...

[4] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fugitive-ohio-executive-previ...