According to the articles other employees logged in with what they knew were not legitimately obtained and pretty clearly committed CFAA violations that have go

According to the articles other employees logged in with what they knew were not legitimately obtained and pretty clearly committed CFAA violations that have gotten serious punishment before. Moreover they induced Zaidi to commit the offenses he's been prosecuted for _and_ co-ordinated a set of employees to access the victim's network _and_ showed that off internally. How is that not criminal conspiracy unless it doesn't count against Ticketmaster if they just say the magic words that they didn't know?