As a father I completely understand pardoning your child. It would be almost impossible not to. That said, this is an extremely bad look ONLY because he went out of his way, multiple times, to emphatically state that wouldn't. But, whatever. He's not any different from everyone else in that town; they're just there for the insider trading and shady foreign deals.
For the record, I didn't broach this topic here, and I'll not speak of it again.
Wanna bet?