They're a distraction and an example, pure and simple. Scapegoats if you like. When the poor are screaming injustice, let some lower level rich people take a fall as an example that they don't really let rich get away with anything. It's also an example to them that money doesn't make you as powerful as them.
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Quite likely. I thought that same thing, but didn't write it, as we have no proof, of course.