The point is that most tech company were doing things wrong by the letter of the law. But instead of going through and rounding up every CFO in the Bay area,

The point is that most tech company were doing things wrong by the letter of the law. But instead of going through and rounding up every CFO in the Bay area, they picked a couple to send to jail to make examples of. The choice of who to jail was basically arbitrary, given that almost everyone was guilty.