Janice, I appreciate your post and acknowledgement of the scamming, but being "late in the game," is neither an excuse nor a rationale for your claim that it was fully disclosed.
There was plenty of corruption to go around and nothing justified the tactics. Outing scams does not justify scamming. Vigilante tactics has never been approved in our society. In essence, those with incentive to profit and manipulate became the judge, jury and executioner.
He also thought it was cool to buddy up to an FBI agent who was, in my view, far more corrupt than Tony.