Everyone in crypto is a fraudster so investors and depositors all deserve to be wiped out. But the scammers also deserve to go to prison for wire fraud and related crimes. Both things can be true. There is no contradiction in the reasoning.

Alexey Pertsev is in jail for allegedly operating an illegal money transfer business in violation of AML/KYC laws. If he had merely developed the Tornado Cash code without actually using it then he wouldn't be in jail.

I agree that the Aaron Swartz case was a travesty of justice.