Much of the criticism of civil forfeiture has been focused on instances of law enforcement officers taking cash -- and often fairly small sums of cash -- they suspect is tied to criminal activity.
After producing, writing and directing fees, that left about $29 million, a fairly modest sum for making a film in Manhattan.
Investigations have not unearthed any evidence of wrongdoing by government officials, and the sums involved are fairly small.
But John Terry, partner at PWC's rewards team, says: "The number of individuals that receive these sums is actually fairly small in relation to the population of any major bank.
But in any case, it's not at all clear that risk-aversion can explain why the St . Petersburggame would be widely intuited to have a fairly small maximum rational entry fee, while so many people are willing to risk very large sums of money for highly unlikely huge payoffs in other games.
It is still fairly small.
I scavenged a scandalously small sum.
Yet these are fairly small numbers.
And the delta should be fairly small.
