Well, maybe they learned they did the wrong thing. Other reasons seem plausible: maybe they just thought it would make them look better if they're caught. Maybe

Well, maybe they learned they did the wrong thing. Other reasons seem plausible: maybe they just thought it would make them look better if they're caught. Maybe they wanted to look better to their clients/allies who are currently like "whoa Nelly, these guys are basically Gus Fring. Maybe we'll work with someone a little less evil." I don't know nearly enough to guess, but it doesn't seem cut-and-dried to me that this is a case of them realizing what they did was wrong. In any case, the same question still applies for what happened before: why were they in a psychological state that made them try this in the first place? Even if we grant that they've changed their tune for moral reasons, that would rule out straight psychopaths, but would include people who had severe antisocial traits but still started to have some feelings about it once they saw the real-life consequences. We see this with repentant murderers. As far as rich businessmen who do evil stuff, there's a literature on that, and it seems to be a complicated mix. There's "just filling my role" (for those not at the very top of their organizations), thinking you'd be replaced by someone else doing the same thing, dissociation/denial about what you're doing, and -- yeah -- straight up antisocial/psychopath types. And more. It's a fascinating topic.