Because, cynicism (and specific elected officials) aside, the government has a vested interest in people viewing it as a country of laws rather than a country of whatever you get off with is fair game.
For me it looks even worse. Netflix, instead of creating civil lawsuit against this guy, that they would have to pay for, silently bribed the right people in the justice system to charge him with some crime instead. This way Netflix punishes the man that did them dirty without paying a cent of their taxed legal money.
Instead now every taxpayer pays for salaries of prosecutors and judges and whoever else is necessary to help one corporation exact a little vengeance.
Presumably you think investors in Theranos should also have also have been on the hook for pursuing legal claims. So basically most white collar crime should be pursued because it's mostly not worthwhile on a dollars and cents basis for government to do so.
Or Enron?
It's just fraud. It's a small step to go from there to say that white collar crime doesn't really hurt anyone and it's on those who think they've been hurt to pursue redress in the courts on their own.
I think in Enron and Theranos cases, there were specific actual crimes happening. Like lying in the published information that's influencing the stock market. Or falsifying you financial records. Things specifically forbidden and labeled as criminal.
Not a thing that is so non-specific (in it's criminality) that you have to label it wire-fraud or mail-fraud (whatever that is) to even have a chance at making it look like actual crime, not just immoral thing he did that could harm his employer (but it's hard to tell to what extent it actually did).
Do you try to straw man me into position "all white collar crimes shouldn't be crimes"?
