How so? If he committed some crime, got convicted, did the time, then started a business and bootstrapped to success, how is that not a self-made man? A great many successful entrepreneurs (Branson comes immediately to mind) were criminals before they were successful.
Some people find it hard to understand that it's possible for an investigation to be mishandled and the person being investigated to still be a criminal.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=15030...