The whole thing seems politically motivated from an outside source. Precedents at MIT effectively encourage this behavior (the law isn't a moral absolute; you'v

The whole thing seems politically motivated from an outside source. Precedents at MIT effectively encourage this behavior (the law isn't a moral absolute; you've broken the law at least once; I wouldn't be surprised if I've unknowingly committed a few felonies). If the expectation was otherwise he wouldn't have behavied as he did. His mistake was likely that he had become somebody important; something of a political figure. That's when people start about caring what you do (by definition). Remember that bastard that hiked up the price of life saving drugs who got slapped with an old felony? Nobody would have bothered to find it if he wasn't the most hated man in America.