Also the fact that one of the people in the article has changed and is now leading minyanim etc doesn’t mean much to me. Afterall, their are many Catholics in jail who do the same thing and come out of jail and go back to doing what they did previously.
On another note. I know someone personally, he was a Dr. His colleague got him to sign some papers that were illegal. The colleague ran off to Israel and left this Dr to deal with the brunt of the court case… He was in jail for 4 years. B”H he is out now and got his license back but it was a difficult 4 years for him and his family yet he admits that he should have read the papers before signing them.