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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Marvel] Why hasn’t the Kingpin been arrested yet?

There’s enough evidence about Kingpin’s mob shtick that can land his hide in prison... Yet he was able to put the Punisher in prison before.

Yet iirc he’s mayor of New York now.

Is he that powerful?
gpt
In short"Everyone knows" isn't a legal argument.

It's very similar to Al Capone IRL. Sure, *everyone* knew that he was running crime in chicago. But you can't go into court and say "everyone knows this man is guilty. Put him in prison". You need evidence, and Capone was very good at ensuring that it was very hard to concretely tie anything he did to him. Likewise Fisk.

Combined with the ability to buy very good lawyers who can exploit the uncertainty in the vague evidence, and the fact that anyone with evidence even a legal dream team can't dismiss either rescinds their testimony after a generous gift or commits suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head, it's really hard to actually *prove* anything.

So, yeah, everyone knows. But no-one can prove it in a court of law, and that's what matters.