I'm sure the majority of Microsoft shareholders could care less 30 years later that Bill Gates and Balmer lied to IBM and bought DOS for a few thousand dollars and flipped it for millions.
Bill Gates and Ballmer would be in jail if they did what Delta9 did, despite the fact that it's "their creation".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmbezzlementMany founders of companies are sitting behind bars today because they willfully hid money from investors or tax collectors. This is no different.