So if I'm piecing this together correctly, he decided he wasn't going to help out NSA. This led to him losing government contracts, which would lower the value of his company. So instead of taking the stock price hit (which would be the principled thing to do), he created false accounting records to defraud investors. And while he was publicly preaching that the Qwest was just fine, he was unloading his own stock.

And this is the guy I'm supposed to be sympathetic of?