In the long struggle to hold power accountable to law, Leon Black's refusal to testify before a congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein's network has crystallized an enduring question: whether legal obligations apply equally regardless of wealth. Formally charged with contempt of Congress, the billionaire investor now waits as the Department of Justice weighs whether to pursue criminal prosecution — a decision that will say as much about the architecture of American accountability as it does about any one man's silence.