Your being acquainted with this individual somehow makes the reporting of his crimes tawdry? What's lacking in your comments is any inclination to bear witness to "his true character as a person." That involves citing a redeeming quality or two. Instead, you resort to the tired ploys of blaming the messenger and obliquely referring to addictive behavior. Those are called excuses. You are correct about the local posse of public shamers, but this time they're right. Your acquaintance committed a felony and let his family down. Period. Restitution, not from the sweat of his brow unless you're ready to attest otherwise, doesn't change that.