Why do you think that will happen, when it pretty much never has historically happened?

That's probably less likely than ever.

I think you could make an argument either way and have an equal chance of being right. Either Trump et al get bribed/flattered/are personally exposed to the fallout and bail out their fellow class members or he gets angry about it and decides to make heads roll via his increasingly captured and controlled DOJ. I still agree it's more likely the former than the latter but I can see the path that leads to the latter.

It came out soon after AOL acquired Tine Warner in 2001 that they artificially inflated income to prop their stock up for the merger to go through. No one was punished for it.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling was going on there.

It’s not a felony to bankrupt your company or lose your investors’ money through good faith bad bets.

Presuppose everything else that contributed to the GFC was straight up fraud: Prevent it all and the crisis is basically just as bad.

Maybe I'm reading too far but "heads will roll" has connotations outside the strictly legal sense

"Heads will roll" just means "severe punishments will be administered". It doesn't necessarily imply the punishments will be illicit, illegitimate, or even fatal.

Not if they bribe the big man