If Bioversal/Verdaso employees who cooked this up ever apply to YC, they have a good answer for the "Tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?" question.
The money (in the form of RINs) was stolen from the EPA. You better believe the government will be recouping it.
I worked at Enron on their power trading floor, and saw them do pretty much the same thing with Ricochet and FatBoy which made the nightly news, congressional hearings etc. John Forney the guy who did it got a $4,000 fine and two years probation in a plea deal which he took because it was cheaper than paying his lawyers to go to court.
Anyways this is JV ball vs. what the paper industry has done with Black Liquor that has run into the BILLIONS.