alt Hacker NewsFrom experience of reviewing many companies I'm fully positively biased in favor of technical (co=)founders. I realy could not care less about the affairs of people I do not know. I do not approve, but it is ceo's I do not know or interact with. However, when this thouches treason/eapionage or other illegal activities, it does become important as it now touches not the personal but the public.
If sex was not a big distraction in this story, more people would understand that him being bribed about where to divert limited supply simply hurts them as consumers. Even if it was not treasonous.