They get away with it because the legal system is stacked in favor of the wealthy and connected. Most people can’t raise a million dollars in legal defense, so they just plea out immediately or suffer through a public defense attorney whose advice is inevitably “plea out, I can’t take this case to trial with my current workload”.

Liberal party leadership was very happy with this kind of justice when they were in charge, because they knew they were exempt. Only now that a fascist is running the system do they realize how even their faces aren’t exempt from the leopard.