Does this mean that a police raid was a way of getting back at them for paying the money, and for mocking Apple and the engineer? Now that would be worrying.
It means that the DA thought Gizmodo, and the editors in particular, had broken the law in paying for the iphone prototype. Simple as that.
I did not want to imply that the DA did what they did to get back at Gizmodo, I only meant that the previous comment was not clear and might imply that.
It means that the DA and Jobs are buddies. Simple as that.