What is it with dodgy entrepreneurs and criminality? One of my first jobs was for a guy who after a week of mundane tasks revealed he really hired me to go thro

What is it with dodgy entrepreneurs and criminality? One of my first jobs was for a guy who after a week of mundane tasks revealed he really hired me to go through the source code of some program and change everything so it looked like he wrote it because he planned to resell it as his own. I politely declined. Turns out literally everyone there except me was an ex-con. I found a job with a different company across the hall and never looked back.