If his freedom is on the line he would flee. As for properties, he doesn’t need to sell them immediately or I don’t think he even need to sell them. It’s not like he is alone with it.
The Secret Service was caught treading water for him in some crimes.
The crazy thing is that the reason why communism sucks is that (at least currently) it requires totalitarianism to implement it. And that comes with a lot of issues. Communism in theory looks like utopia. Russia no longer is communist, but it absolutely is totalitarian, but according to them that’s somehow good.
Also what I noticed is that those tankies on lemmygrad, aren’t really pro communism, they are pro totalitarianism.