So long as there is no criminal prosecution and threat of material jail time against him, Jones is free to keep hiding the fiscal sausage by transferring ownership and shuffling around money between accounts in other people’s names. I’m sure this is an expensive and obnoxious process on Alex’s end. But it’s a small price to pay to shield hundreds of millions of dollars from any kind of court judgement.

Add in that Jones has plenty of friends in the Texas state house and the Austin PD. So he can very easily skirt processors, ignore out-of-state court orders, and glad hand sheriff’s deputies who would otherwise pursue collections against him, simply because he’s got popular clout in his big reactionary backwater.

At some point, the problem isn’t with the courts but the police. Judges and juries don’t do the collections themselves.