Correct, but who&#x27;s to say where the investigation would have stopped if they didn&#x27;t uncover anything at first? If he wasn&#x27;t so publicly reviled, it may have been dropped if wrongdoing wasn&#x27;t immediately uncovered. But because he was so out there in public and so publicly reviled, he may have insured that investigators kept looking at him until they <i>did</i> find something they could make stick.<p>I would note that I have no knowledge of the investigation beyond what&#x27;s being reported (and only a cursory knowledge of that). I could be totally wrong. Maybe these charges were immediately obvious to investigators and it&#x27;s just taken them almost a year to get their ducks in a row. I&#x27;m just theorizing here based on some historical knowledge of famous criminals and how they were eventually brought down (see my comments above on gangsters in the 20s and 30s).