messing up and defrauding that way doesn't negate the fact that you still need to be smart on some level(depending on your definition) to create an IT company.

We should definitely punish the fraud. But also look at rehabilitation.

In this case, we are taking someone that could under the right circumstance be a net positive for society and putting him in jail for 5 years where he will most probably come out as a destroyed human.

I will never understand how people desire for revenge negate the bigger picture.